Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES FLA447871

BURNHAM FARMS, INC., Okeechobee, FL: NPDES FLA447871 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BURNHAM FARMS, INC., held by J.M. Larson, Inc, holds NPDES permit FLA447871, which discharges to C-25 Canal West Wbid 3160 Class Iii Fresh. EPA’s file records it issued September 17, 2018 and expiring September 16, 2023. 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	BURNHAM FARMS, INC.
Permittee as filed	J.M. Larson, Inc
NPDES ID	FLA447871
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	September 17, 2018
Expiration date	September 16, 2023
Issuing agency	Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Address	Okeechobee, FL 34972
Receiving water	C-25 CANAL WEST WBID 3160 Class III Fresh
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Lower Fort Drum Creek (HUC 030801010105)
NAICS	112120 – Dairy Cattle and Milk Production
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

14Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
11With 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
Nitrogen, total [as N]	2	10
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	10
Coliform, fecal general	2	10
Ammonia, unionized	0	7
Phosphorous, in total orthophosphate	0	7
pH	4	6
Flow, total	2	6
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	2	3
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	3
Solids, total suspended	2	3
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	3
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	2	0
Duration of discharge	2	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES FLA447871.

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

3Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
July 18, 2019	Management Practice Violations - Improper Operation and Maintenance	ST6
November 13, 2017	WW CAFO - Improper Mortality Management	ST6
November 13, 2017	Reporting Violations - Failure to Notify	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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This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES FLA447871, held by BURNHAM FARMS, INC. in Okeechobee, FL, with J.M. Larson, Inc. listed as permittee, and the permit is administratively continued, with the Minor Discharger class, 12 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. The permit discharges to C-25 CANAL WEST WBID 3160 Class III Fresh, a receiving water listed as impaired under 303(D), and the subwatershed is Lower Fort Drum Creek (HUC 030801010105). The permit was issued September 17, 2018 and expired September 16, 2023.