Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES FLA120189

MELEAR DAIRY #1 AND #2, Zolfo Springs, FL: NPDES FLA120189 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

MELEAR DAIRY #1 AND #2, held by C.R. Melear Corporation, holds NPDES permit FLA120189, which discharges to Charlie Cr Class Iii Fresh Wbid 1763c. EPA’s file records it issued July 2, 2015 and expiring July 18, 2020. 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	MELEAR DAIRY #1 AND #2
Permittee as filed	C.R. Melear Corporation
NPDES ID	FLA120189
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
Program	Concentrated animal feeding operations
Issued	July 2, 2015
Expiration date	July 18, 2020
Issuing agency	Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Address	Zolfo Springs, FL 33890
Receiving water	Charlie Cr Class III Fresh WBID 1763C
Subwatershed	Charlie Creek Headwaters (HUC 031001010502)
NAICS	112111 – Beef Cattle Ranching and Farming
SIC	0241 – Dairy Farms

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

11Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
9With 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
pH	2	2
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	1	1
Solids, total suspended	1	1
Nitrogen, total [as N]	1	1
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	1	1
Phosphorus, total [as P]	1	1
Coliform, fecal general	1	1
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	0	1
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	0	1
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	1	0
Flow, total	1	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES FLA120189.

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 FLA120189.

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 FLA120189 for MELEAR DAIRY #1 AND #2 in Zolfo Springs, FL, held by C.R. Melear Corporation, under the Concentrated animal feeding operations program. The permit status is administratively continued, with 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.