Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IA0072389
AJINOMOTO NORTH AMERICA, INC., Eddyville, IA: NPDES IA0072389 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 6Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
AJINOMOTO NORTH AMERICA, INC. holds NPDES permit IA0072389. EPA’s file records it issued June 1, 2011 and expiring May 31, 2016. 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 | AJINOMOTO NORTH AMERICA, INC. |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | AJINOMOTO NORTH AMERICA, INC. |
| NPDES ID | IA0072389 |
| 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 |
| Issued | June 1, 2011 |
| Expiration date | May 31, 2016 |
| Issuing agency | STA |
| Address | Eddyville, IA 52553 |
| Subwatershed | St Joseph Creek-Des Moines River (HUC 071000090505) |
| Other EPA IDs (FRS) | RCRA handler IAD984610055 |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 6Pollutants on file
- 6Under a numeric limit
- 5With a violation of any kind
- 4With 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorite | 8 | 71 | 65 | December 31, 2020 | 21,629% over the limit |
| Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N] | 48 | 30 | 30 | January 31, 2017 | 541% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 8 | 17 | 5 | February 29, 2020 | 100% over the limit |
| pH | 4 | 3 | 3 | September 30, 2017 | |
| BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C] | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Chlorine, total residual | 8 | 0 | 0 |
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 IA0072389.
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.