Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0002399

ARKEMA LEMONT FACILITY, Lemont, IL: NPDES IL0002399 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
5Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

ARKEMA LEMONT FACILITY, held by COOK COMPOSITE ANDPOLYMERS, holds NPDES permit IL0002399, which discharges to Dr Ditch Trib To Ill/Mich Canal. EPA’s file records it issued January 12, 2006 and expiring January 31, 2011. 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	ARKEMA LEMONT FACILITY
Permittee as filed	COOK COMPOSITE ANDPOLYMERS
NPDES ID	IL0002399
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	January 12, 2006
Expiration date	January 31, 2011
Address	Lemont, IL 60439
Receiving water	DR DITCH TRIB TO ILL/MICH CANAL
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Maple Lake-Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (HUC 071200040705)
SIC	2821 – Plastics Materials And Resins
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ILD000814624; ICIS-AIR source IL000031806AAB

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

6Pollutants on file
5Under a numeric limit
6With 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
Solids, total dissolved- 180 deg. C	0	74	70	January 31, 2006	5,107% over the limit
Solids, total dissolved	2	68	68	April 30, 2012	6,299% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	2	20	18	October 31, 2011	1,767% over the limit
pH	2	36	16	January 31, 2012
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	18	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	1	7	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 IL0002399.

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.

This page is a public-records entry for NPDES permit IL0002399, held by COOK COMPOSITE ANDPOLYMERS for the ARKEMA LEMONT FACILITY in Lemont, IL, which discharges to DR DITCH TRIB TO ILL/MICH CANAL. The permit is listed as administratively continued, with 4 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.