Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0003841

DFA DAIRY BRANDS LLC DBA KEMPS CULTURED, Rockford, IL: NPDES IL0003841 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
3Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

DFA DAIRY BRANDS LLC DBA KEMPS CULTURED, held by DEAN DAIRY FLUID, LLC, holds NPDES permit IL0003841, which discharges to North Fork Kent Creek. EPA’s file records it issued December 30, 2020 and expiring December 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	DFA DAIRY BRANDS LLC DBA KEMPS CULTURED
Permittee as filed	DEAN DAIRY FLUID, LLC
NPDES ID	IL0003841
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	December 30, 2020
Expiration date	December 31, 2025
Address	Rockford, IL 61101
Receiving water	NORTH FORK KENT CREEK
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Kent Creek (HUC 070900050106)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	ICIS-AIR source IL000201030ABA

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
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
Chlorine, total residual	1	27	18	May 31, 2024	3,900% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	0	182	2	July 31, 2000	4% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	0	178	2	December 31, 2001	13% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	2	59	1	March 31, 2024	2% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	150	0
pH	0	143	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 IL0003841.

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 IL0003841, held by DFA DAIRY BRANDS LLC DBA KEMPS CULTURED in Rockford, IL, and discharging to North Fork Kent Creek in Kent Creek subwatershed HUC 070900050106. The permit is administratively continued, is classed as a Minor Discharger, and lists 4 pollutants under a numeric limit, of which 4 show an effluent exceedance.