Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IA0073075

WELLS ENTERPRISES, INC. NORTH ICE CREAM PLANT, Le Mars, IA: NPDES IA0073075 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
3Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

WELLS ENTERPRISES, INC. NORTH ICE CREAM PLANT, held by WELLS ENTERPRISES, INC., holds NPDES permit IA0073075. EPA’s file records it issued June 1, 2020 and expiring May 31, 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	WELLS ENTERPRISES, INC. NORTH ICE CREAM PLANT
Permittee as filed	WELLS ENTERPRISES, INC.
NPDES ID	IA0073075
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, 2020
Expiration date	May 31, 2025
Issuing agency	STA
Address	Le Mars, IA 51031
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Village of Merrill-Floyd River (HUC 102300020502)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler IAD984571505; ICIS-AIR source IA0000001914900034

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
3Under a numeric limit
5With a violation of any kind
3With 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
Chlorine, total residual	4	31	31	March 31, 2026	860% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	0	5	5	April 30, 2003	454% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	24	3	3	January 31, 2026	3% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	0	4	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	0	2	0
pH	2	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 IA0073075.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit IA0073075, held by WELLS ENTERPRISES, INC. for its North Ice Cream Plant in Le Mars, IA, and lists 3 pollutants under a numeric limit and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. The permit is classed as a Minor discharger and is administratively continued, past its May 31, 2025 expiration date, with an issue date of June 1, 2020, as EPA's file stood when Velarion loaded it on September 15, 2026.