Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES FLA128538

CAL-MAINE FOODS, INC. - DADE CITY FARM 88, Dade City, FL: NPDES FLA128538 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

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

CAL-MAINE FOODS, INC. - DADE CITY FARM 88, held by Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., holds NPDES permit FLA128538, which discharges to Withlacoochee R Class Iii Fresh Wbid 1329f. EPA’s file records it issued January 8, 2020 and expiring January 7, 2025. 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	CAL-MAINE FOODS, INC. - DADE CITY FARM 88
Permittee as filed	Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.
NPDES ID	FLA128538
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	January 8, 2020
Expiration date	January 7, 2025
Issuing agency	Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Address	Dade City, FL 33525
Receiving water	Withlacoochee R Class III Fresh WBID 1329F
Subwatershed	Ashley Bay (HUC 031002080205)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

9Pollutants on file
9Under 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
pH	2	2
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	1	0
Solids, total suspended	1	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	1	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	1	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	1	0
Coliform, fecal general	1	0
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 FLA128538.

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
April 15, 2024	WW CAFO - Reporting Violations - No Annual Report or Other Required Report Submitted	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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES discharge permit FLA128538, held by Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. for its Dade City Farm 88 facility, which discharges to the Withlacoochee R Class III Fresh WBID 1329F. The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a minor discharger class, zero pollutants under a numeric limit, and zero pollutants with an effluent exceedance.