Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0003590

ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND, Quincy, IL: NPDES IL0003590 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
6Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND holds NPDES permit IL0003590, which discharges to Mississippi River. EPA’s file records it issued February 14, 2014 and expiring February 28, 2019. 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	ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND
Permittee as filed	ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND
NPDES ID	IL0003590
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	February 14, 2014
Expiration date	February 28, 2019
Address	Quincy, IL 62305
Receiving water	MISSISSIPPI RIVER
Subwatershed	Curtis Creek-Mississippi River (HUC 071100011006)
SIC	2075 – Soybean Oil Mills
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ILD006295109; ICIS-AIR source IL000001815AAF

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

11Pollutants on file
6Under a numeric limit
10With a violation of any kind
1With 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	1	15	14	March 31, 2026	1,540% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	11	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	0	8	0
Solids, total suspended	0	8	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	0	8	0
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]	0	8	0
Zinc, total [as Zn]	1	4	0
Silver, total [as Ag]	0	4	0
pH	2	2	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	1	1	0
Manganese, total [as Mn]	1	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 IL0003590.

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.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit IL0003590 held by ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND in Quincy, IL, which discharges to the Mississippi River and is administratively continued with a Minor Discharger class. The page lists 6 pollutants under a numeric limit and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance, with the permit's issue and expiration dates as stored in EPA's permit file when Velarion loaded it on October 14, 2026.