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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES FLR05B781

ASHLAND SPECIALTY CHEMICAL, Bartow, FL: NPDES FLR05B781 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

ASHLAND SPECIALTY CHEMICAL, held by Ashland Inc., holds NPDES permit FLR05B781, which discharges to North Bear Brook. EPA’s file records it issued February 19, 2011 and expiring February 18, 2016. 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.

What the register holds for ASHLAND SPECIALTY CHEMICAL: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Bartow, Florida, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES FLR05B781.

Identity

Facility as filedASHLAND SPECIALTY CHEMICAL
Permittee as filedAshland Inc.
NPDES IDFLR05B781
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedFebruary 19, 2011
Expiration dateFebruary 18, 2016
AddressBartow, FL 33830
Receiving waterNORTH BEAR BROOK
SIC2821 – Plastics Materials And Resins
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler FLD000654251; ICIS-AIR source FL0000001210500021

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

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES FLR05B781.

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES FLR05B781.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

What this page shows

ASHLAND SPECIALTY CHEMICAL is among the 218 storm water industrial permits in Polk County, this permit included, and 9.2% were issued before it. Violations are on file for 30.7% of those Polk County permits.