Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AR0051012

MARS PETCARE U.S., INC., Fort Smith, AR: NPDES AR0051012 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
7Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

MARS PETCARE U.S., INC. holds NPDES permit AR0051012, which discharges to Trib,Little Vache Grasse Cr,Arkansas R. EPA’s file records it issued April 25, 2014 and expiring April 30, 2019. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (October 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	MARS PETCARE U.S., INC.
Permittee as filed	MARS PETCARE U.S., INC.
NPDES ID	AR0051012
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	April 25, 2014
Expiration date	April 30, 2019
Address	Fort Smith, AR 72916
Receiving water	TRIB,LITTLE VACHE GRASSE CR,ARKANSAS R
Subwatershed	Upper Little Vache Grasse Creek (HUC 111102010102)
NAICS	311111 – Dog and Cat Food Manufacturing
SIC	2047 – Dog And Cat Food

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

Effluent limits and exceedances

10Pollutants on file
7Under a numeric limit
10With a violation of any kind
4With 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
Oxygen demand, chem. [low level] [COD]	2	26	6	July 31, 2025	99,999% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	2	24	4	May 31, 2019	14% over the limit
Oil & Grease	2	24	4	June 30, 2010	99,999% over the limit
pH	2	22	2	January 31, 2012
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	26	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	1	3	0
Turbidity	1	3	0
Chloride [as Cl]	0	2	0
Solids, total dissolved	0	2	0
Sulfate	0	2	0

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 AR0051012.

Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not include the inspections, formal enforcement actions and informal enforcement actions files, so this page shows none of them. EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO lists this permit’s inspections, enforcement actions and penalties.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES AR0051012, held by MARS PETCARE U.S., INC. of Fort Smith, AR, which discharges to TRIB,LITTLE VACHE GRASSE CR,ARKANSAS R and is administratively continued as a Minor Discharger. The page lists 7 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit's issue and expiration dates as EPA's file recorded them.