Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ARG250020

SILGAN PLASTIC FOOD CONTAINERS, Fort Smith, AR: NPDES ARG250020 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
6Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SILGAN PLASTIC FOOD CONTAINERS, held by Silgan Plastic Food Containers Corporation, holds NPDES permit ARG250020, which discharges to Trib,Mill Cr,Poteau R,Arkansas R. EPA’s file records it issued January 10, 2017 and expiring November 30, 2022. 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	SILGAN PLASTIC FOOD CONTAINERS
Permittee as filed	Silgan Plastic Food Containers Corporation
NPDES ID	ARG250020
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	January 10, 2017
Expiration date	November 30, 2022
Address	Fort Smith, AR 72908
Receiving water	Trib,Mill Cr,Poteau R,Arkansas R
Subwatershed	Cedar Creek-Poteau River (HUC 111101050904)
NAICS	326199 – All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing
SIC	3089 – Plastics Products

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

6Pollutants on file
6Under a numeric limit
6With 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
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	1	15	4	April 30, 2026	11% over the limit
Oxygen demand, chem. [low level] [COD]	2	32	3	December 31, 2025	52% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	30	0
Solids, total suspended	2	29	0
Oil & Grease	2	29	0
pH	2	25	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 ARG250020.

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

This public-records page covers NPDES permit ARG250020 held by Silgan Plastic Food Containers Corporation for its facility in Fort Smith, AR, which is administratively continued and classed as a minor discharger. The page lists 6 pollutants under a numeric limit and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit's issue date of January 10, 2017 and expiration date of November 30, 2022 as they stood in EPA's file when the record was loaded on October 14, 2026.