Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES COR900461

PURINA ANIMAL NUTRITION LLC - COMMERCE CITY, Commerce City, CO: NPDES COR900461 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
1Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

PURINA ANIMAL NUTRITION LLC - COMMERCE CITY, held by Purina Animal Nutrition LLC, holds NPDES permit COR900461, which discharges to Sand Creek -South Platte River. EPA’s file records it issued May 31, 2012 and expiring June 30, 2017. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	PURINA ANIMAL NUTRITION LLC - COMMERCE CITY
Permittee as filed	Purina Animal Nutrition LLC
NPDES ID	COR900461
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
Program	Industrial stormwater
Issued	May 31, 2012
Expiration date	June 30, 2017
Address	Commerce City, CO 80022
Receiving water	Sand Creek -South Platte River
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler COD007064629

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

1Pollutants on file
1Under a numeric limit
1With 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	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
Solids, total suspended	1	10	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES COR900461.

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 COR900461.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit COR900461, held by Purina Animal Nutrition LLC for its Commerce City, CO facility, which discharges to Sand Creek -South Platte River under the industrial stormwater program. The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a minor discharger class, issued May 31, 2012 and expiring June 30, 2017, and it shows 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.