Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IA0081272
POET BIOREFINING - SHELL ROCK, LLC, Shell Rock, IA: NPDES IA0081272 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 3Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
POET BIOREFINING - SHELL ROCK, LLC holds NPDES permit IA0081272. EPA’s file records it issued April 1, 2019 and expiring March 31, 2024. 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 | POET BIOREFINING - SHELL ROCK, LLC |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | POET BIOREFINING - SHELL ROCK, LLC |
| NPDES ID | IA0081272 |
| 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 | April 1, 2019 |
| Expiration date | March 31, 2024 |
| Issuing agency | STA |
| Address | Shell Rock, IA 50670 |
| Receiving water impaired | 303(D) Listed |
| Subwatershed | Heery Woods State Park-Shell Rock River (HUC 070802020704) |
| NAICS | 325193 – Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| SIC | 2869 – Industrial Organic Chemicals |
| Other EPA IDs (FRS) | RCRA handler IAR000513069; ICIS-AIR source IA0000001902300109 |
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
- 4Pollutants on file
- 3Under a numeric limit
- 4With 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 | 7 | 7 | September 30, 2022 | 1,524% over the limit |
| pH | 2 | 3 | 1 | April 30, 2023 | |
| Oxygen, dissolved [DO] | 0 | 1 | 1 | March 31, 2013 | 16% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 4 | 2 | 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 IA0081272.
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 October 14, 2026.