Vermont NPDES permit search
Status, expiry and violations for 77 municipal wastewater permits · issued by VT DEC
In short
How do I look up an NPDES permit in Vermont?
Search this page by permit number or plant name for a municipal plant’s permit status, expiry date and violations. For the official file, search DEC’s list of NPDES permits or the Environmental Notice Bulletin. EPA’s ECHO database shows the monitoring results and violations of every permit. The 122 industrial permits in Vermont are listed in Klarifi with a free account.
Links to official sources checked September 2026.
Effective
9
Administratively continued
11
Expired
57
Plants with effluent violations, 3 years
61
Where to find official Vermont NPDES records
Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (VT DEC) runs the NPDES program in Vermont under authorization from EPA Region 1. It issues and enforces the permits and keeps the official file: applications, permits, fact sheets and monitoring reports. EPA New England issues the permits of federal facilities in Vermont. VT DEC website ↗
permits · permit documents
DEC’s list of the NPDES permits currently issued. Find the facility and click its permit number for the current permit, continuation letters and any orders issued since 2021.
applications
Search by facility name or permit number, or pick “Wastewater Discharge Individual Permit” and a town, to see applications and where they stand: in review, draft decision or final decision.
permits · DMRs · inspections · violations · enforcement
EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance History Online. Search water facilities by permit number, name or city; the Detailed Facility Report lists inspections, violations and enforcement actions, and Effluent Charts plot monitoring results against the permit limits.
- Permit numbers
- Vermont lists each permit under a state number such as 3-1587 and its NPDES number, VT plus seven digits (VT0120131).
- Discharge monitoring reports
- Through ANR Online, the Agency of Natural Resources’ own reporting portal, not NetDMR.
- Violations and enforcement
- DEC’s final enforcement actions since 1996 ↗
Industrial and commercial NPDES permits in Vermont
Most NPDES permits are not held by municipal plants. EPA’s permit database lists 122 individual permits in force for industrial and commercial facilities in Vermont (manufacturers, food processors, mines, power plants, landfills), 4 of them major dischargers, plus 19 facilities covered by a general permit, mostly for stormwater. 14 of the individual permits recorded at least one effluent violation in the last three years.
| Facility | Permit | Status | Expires | Effluent violations |
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Unlock 122 industrial permits in Vermont
Search every industrial and commercial discharger in Vermont by name or permit number, with permit status, expiry and violation history. Free with a Klarifi account.
Industrial and commercial NPDES permits in Vermont: permits in force (effective or administratively continued) held by facilities EPA does not class as publicly owned treatment works or federal facilities. Source: EPA ICIS-NPDES via Klarifi, October 2026.
Violations at Vermont wastewater plants
61 of the 77 municipal plants on this page recorded at least one effluent violation, a monitored value above a permit limit, in the last three years, and 62 had a violation of any kind, including late or missing monitoring reports. Each plant’s page shows its own count.
Permit renewals by year
An NPDES permit runs for five years. To keep discharging, a plant must apply for renewal at least 180 days before the expiry date, and the renewed permit usually arrives with tighter effluent limits, new monitoring requirements or a compliance schedule. That is why the year a permit expires is the year a plant starts budgeting for upgrades: nutrient removal, disinfection, capacity or controls.
Largest permit holders in Vermont
| Facility | City | Avg flow (MGD) | Design (MGD) | NPDES permit | Status | Expires | Violations (3y) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bennington Wastewater Treatment Facility | Bennington | 3.62 | — | VT0100021 | Effective | Jun 2029 | 7 |
| St Albans City | St Albans | 3.2 | — | VT0100323 | Expired | Sep 2022 | 17 |
| Essex Junction Wastewater Treatment Facility | Essex Junction | 2.07 | — | VT0100111 | Administratively continued | Jun 2026 | 2 |
| Montpelier Wastewater Treatment Facility | Montpelier | 1.92 | — | VT0100196 | Administratively continued | Sep 2022 | 0 |
| Brattleboro Wastewater Treatment Facility | Brattleboro | 1.28 | — | VT0100064 | Expired | Sep 2021 | 6 |
| Middlebury Wastewater Treatment Facility | Middlebury | 1.13 | — | VT0100188 | Administratively continued | Sep 2013 | 12 |
| St Johnsbury | St Johnsbury | 0.9 | — | VT0100579 | Expired | Mar 2023 | 18 |
| Springfield Wastewater Treatment Facility | Springfield | 0.8 | — | VT0100374 | Administratively continued | Sep 2020 | 18 |
| Winooski Sewage Treatment Plant | Winooski | 0.64 | — | VT0100510 | Administratively continued | Jun 2026 | 0 |
| Bellows Falls Waste Water Treatment Facility | Bellows Falls | 0.55 | — | VT0100013 | Expired | Sep 2021 | 40 |
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Sources and methodology
Flow, permit and violation figures come from the EPA's ICIS-NPDES discharge monitoring records. Population served comes from the Clean Watersheds Needs Survey 2022. Treatment structures are identified by Klarifi's review of aerial imagery, and capital improvement projects are extracted from published municipal budget documents. Violations are counted over the last three years of monitoring reports.
Data refreshed October 12, 2026.
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