NPDES · Pretreatment · Stormwater

File the water report
yourself. Confidently.

FluviSense reads your permit and your lab results, fills the discharge report line by line, and flags anything close to a limit before it reaches the regulator. Built for the 40-person business that has a permit but no environmental department.

Files through NetDMR & state portals No retainer Set up in 20 minutes

Outfall 001/ Permit TX0• • 47129/ Period Jun 2026
pHs.u.7.4
Total suspended solidsmg/L41
Oil & greasemg/L14.2

94% of your 15 mg/L daily maximum. Two more readings this high and the monthly average is over. Review before you file.

BOD₅mg/L96
FlowMGD0.031
5 of 5 parameters entered · 1 flagged Due Jul 28
Who files with us Craft breweries Metal finishing Food processing Truck & fleet wash Concrete & aggregate Commercial laundries

Why this is hard

The permit is 40 pages. The form is six.

Nothing about a discharge report is intellectually difficult. It is difficult because the answer is buried in a document nobody on your payroll has time to read, and being wrong is expensive.

Cost

$4,000 a year to type numbers

A consulting retainer is priced for a refinery. Most small dischargers are paying it to have someone transcribe a lab PDF into a state portal twelve times a year.

Risk

A missed sample is a violation

Not the exceedance — the gap. Skip a monthly grab sample and the report itself is the evidence. Penalties start in the thousands and land in a public database.

Time

Nobody owns it

It falls to the plant manager, the bookkeeper, or whoever answered the phone when the inspector called. The deadline moves with the permit, not the calendar.

How a filing works

Four steps, and only one of them is yours.

The same idea as filing your own taxes: you answer questions about your business, we handle the form the agency actually wants.

STEP 01

Upload the permit

Drop in the PDF your state issued you. We pull out every outfall, every parameter, every limit, the sampling frequency, and the real due dates — and show you the list to confirm.

STEP 02

Forward the lab results

Email the lab report to your FluviSense address. Each result is matched to the right parameter, sample point, and reporting period. Units are converted where the permit uses different ones.

STEP 03

Review what's flagged

Anything over a limit, close to one, or missing gets marked with the clause of your permit that governs it and what your options are. This is the part you read. It takes about five minutes.

STEP 04

Sign and file

Your responsible officer signs, we submit through NetDMR or your state's portal, and the signed copy, the lab data, and the chain of custody are archived where an inspector can be handed them in one click.

Coverage

What we prepare and file

If your permit requires something not on this list, send it over — coverage is added by permit type, and most of them share the same bones.

Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR)NPDES individual & general permitsMonthly / quarterly
Industrial pretreatment self-monitoringLocal POTW / sewer authoritySemiannual
Stormwater annual site inspectionSWPPP, MSGP sectors A–ADAnnual
No Exposure CertificationConditional exclusion renewalEvery 5 years
Water withdrawal & use reportState water authorityVaries by state
Noncompliance & bypass noticeVerbal + written follow-up24 h / 5 days

The part that isn't paperwork

Your compliance data is water data.

Every month you already measure how much water leaves your site and what's in it. Filed and forgotten, it's overhead. Kept in one place, it's the only honest record of how your business uses water — the thing your customer's supplier questionnaire, your lender, and your own operations team keep asking for.

FluviSense turns twelve months of filings into a water summary: intensity per unit produced, reuse rate, and where a load spike started. No new sensors, no new sampling. Same numbers, read forward instead of backward.

See a sample water summary

−18%

Water used per barrel after a client traced a spike to one rinse cycle

100%

Of filings archived with lab data and chain of custody attached

1 export

Answers the water section of CDP, EcoVadis, and most customer supplier questionnaires — pulled from reports you had to file anyway

“Our permit came with the building. For two years I filed it by copying last month's sheet and changing the numbers, and I never once knew if it was right.”
Operations manager · 34-employee specialty food processor · Illustrative of the customers we build for

Pricing

Priced per permit, not per hour.

Start with a single report if you have a deadline this week. Move to a plan when you'd rather stop thinking about it.

One report

$149 per filing

For a deadline that's already close.

  • One permit, one reporting period
  • Lab results matched to parameters
  • Limit check with flagged findings
  • Filed through your portal
File one report

Standard · most common

$89 / month

One site, every recurring report it owes.

  • Everything in One report
  • All recurring reports on the permit
  • Deadline calendar with reminders
  • Lab intake by email
  • Full filing archive for inspections
Start with my permit

Multi-site

$259 / month

Several locations, one person responsible.

  • Up to 5 permits
  • Everything in Standard
  • Annual water summary & ESG export
  • Auditor-ready document package
  • Named compliance contact
Talk to us

Straight answers

Before you hand us a permit

Who signs the report?

You do. Federal rules require a responsible corporate officer to certify the report, and that can't be delegated to a vendor. We prepare it, check it, and put it in front of the right person to sign. Where a state additionally requires a licensed engineer or certified operator, we flag it before you start.

Do you collect the samples?

No. Sampling and lab analysis stay with you and your certified lab — we work with the lab you already use, and can suggest one in your area if you don't have a preference. What we do is make sure the right samples were taken at the right frequency, and tell you when one is coming due.

What if a result is over the limit?

We show it before you file, with the clause of your permit that applies and the reporting obligation that comes with it — some exceedances require notice within 24 hours. We never adjust or omit a result. The report has to match the lab data, and helping you hide an exceedance would be the one thing that turns a fine into a criminal matter.

I already missed a deadline. Can you help?

Usually, yes. A late report filed voluntarily is treated very differently from one an inspector finds. We'll prepare the outstanding filings, show you what the gap looks like on the record, and lay out the disclosure options. If your situation calls for an environmental attorney, we'll tell you that instead of taking your money.

Which states do you cover?

Anywhere NetDMR is used, plus states that run their own portal. Coverage is per permit type rather than per state — the fastest answer is to upload your permit and see what comes back. It costs nothing and takes about a minute.

Who can see my discharge data?

Your data is yours, and it isn't sold or shared. Worth knowing regardless: once a DMR is filed, the results are public record in EPA's ECHO database. Your neighbors and your customers can already look them up — which is a reason to know your own numbers before someone else quotes them to you.

Free permit check

Upload the permit. See what you owe,
and when.

We'll return every report your permit requires, every parameter and limit, and the next twelve months of deadlines. No account, no card, no call. If you'd rather keep filing it yourself afterwards, keep the list.

Answer in under 2 minutes PDF or photo of the permit