Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WVL023353

FAIRMONT WWTP, CITY OF, Fairmont, WV: NPDES WVL023353 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
0Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
0Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

FAIRMONT WWTP, CITY OF holds NPDES permit WVL023353. EPA’s file records it issued January 1, 2021 and expiring December 31, 2025. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	FAIRMONT WWTP, CITY OF
Permittee as filed	FAIRMONT WWTP, CITY OF
NPDES ID	WVL023353
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Associated permit record
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Biosolids
Issued	January 1, 2021
Expiration date	December 31, 2025
Address	Fairmont, WV 26554
Subwatershed	Little Creek-Monongahela River (HUC 050200030305)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

2Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
2With a violation of any kind
2With an effluent exceedance

An effluent exceedance is a discharge monitoring report value over the permit’s numeric limit (EPA’s violation code E90). A violation of any kind also counts a report not filed. Each row is EPA’s own count for that pollutant.

Pollutant or measure	Limits	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
Molybdenum, sludge, total, dry weight [as Mo]	0	1	1	June 30, 2011	1,420% over the limit
Cadmium, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cd]	0	1	1	December 31, 2009	515% over the limit

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES limits and effluent violations files (ECHO download); up to 60 rows shown, most exceedances first.

Inspections, violations and enforcement

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES WVL023353.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES WVL023353.

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES WVL023353.

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES violation, inspection and enforcement files (ECHO download); up to 50 rows of each shown, newest first.

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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit WVL023353 for FAIRMONT WWTP, CITY OF in Fairmont, WV, listed as administratively continued with a Minor discharger class and a Biosolids program. The facts list 2 pollutants on file, 0 under a numeric limit, and 2 with an effluent exceedance, within the Little Creek-Monongahela River subwatershed (HUC 050200030305).