wastewater
Draft Permit Notices
Public Notice Information for Actions Proposed by the Indirect Discharge Program and Underground Injection Control Program
Implementation of Electronic Discharge Monitoring Reports
This site will be updated as the new reporting system is rolled out. Please check back periodically for updates.
Wastewater Program Contact Information
Direct Discharge and Pretreatment Wastewater Facility Assignments
For information about private water systems or home septic systems, please contact the Drinking Water and Groundwater Protection Division's Regional Office staff assigned to your location.
The State of Vermont Wastewater Program has reorganized to accommodate a new structure.
Notice of Untreated or Unpermitted Discharges
Sewer overflows and release events have the potential to pose a threat to human and/or environmental health.
Avoid swimming, wading, boating, or fishing after wastewater overflow, releases, or illicit discharges!
Wasteload Allocation Process Rule
September 15, 1987
The State of Vermont has established Water Quality Standards as a means of guiding the management of water quality to ensure the use and enjoyment of Vermont's lakes and streams. Typical uses may include fishing, swimming, boating, hydroelectric power generation and waste disposal. When a use such as waste disposal threatens to degrade water quality to the extent that other uses are impaired, a limit must be placed upon the quantity of waste that may be discharged. This limit, referred to as the assimilative capacity, is defined as the maximum quantity of waste the water body can accept, without water quality being degraded below established standards.
Procedure for Determining Significant Non-Compliance for Vermont's Water Pollution Control Permit Program
September 3, 1995
It is the purpose of this procedure to establish which types of non-compliance will normally be given priority in Agency response efforts with respect to discharge permits issues pursuant to 10 V.S.A. §1263; except that this procedure does not apply to indirect discharge permits issued pursuant to the Indirect Discharge Rules, Chapter 14: Environmental Protection Rules.
Amendment to the Vermont Water Pollution Control Regulations, Chapter 13
October 7, 1991
The 1991 amendment to the Vermont Water Pollution Control Regulations establish the overarching framework for the issuance of General Permits for the discharge of wastes with in a common geographic area, including state-wide, that share the same or substantially similar qualities such that the discharges can be regulated by the same or similar permit conditions. General Permits are typically employed to authorize the discharge of wastes from petroleum contamination remediation projects.
Vermont Water Pollution Control Permit Regulations
February 26, 1974
The 1974 Vermont Water Pollution Control Regulations establish the overarching framework under which Vermont exercises its federally delegated authority to issue National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits for the discharge of treated wastewater to surface waters and for the discharge of treated industrial wastes to municipal sewage collection systems for conveyance to a wastewater treatment facility.