Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES COG605021

GREELEY BEEF, Weld County, CO: NPDES COG605021 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
6Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

GREELEY BEEF, held by JBS USA, holds NPDES permit COG605021, which discharges to Cache La Poudre River. EPA’s file records it issued August 18, 2008 and expiring June 30, 2013. 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	GREELEY BEEF
Permittee as filed	JBS USA
NPDES ID	COG605021
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	August 18, 2008
Expiration date	June 30, 2013
Address	Weld County, CO 80631
Receiving water	Cache La Poudre River
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Outlet Cache La Poudre River (HUC 101900071008)
SIC	2011 – Meat Packing Plants
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler COD983768573; ICIS-AIR source CO0000000812300018

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

6Pollutants on file
6Under a numeric limit
6With a violation of any kind
0With 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
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	5	10
pH	2	8
Solids, total suspended	2	8
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	8
Oil and grease	1	4
Oil and grease visual	1	4

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES COG605021.

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

1Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
March 13, 2026	Monitoring Violations - Improper Analysis or Lab Error	ST6

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 Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES COG605021 for GREELEY BEEF in Weld County, CO, held by JBS USA and discharging to the Cache La Poudre River. The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a permit status of Minor, a discharger class of 6, 0 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.