Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0004375

CABOT CORPORATION, Tuscola, IL: NPDES IL0004375 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
7Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CABOT CORPORATION holds NPDES permit IL0004375, which discharges to Scattering Forks Creek. EPA’s file records it issued May 30, 2018 and expiring May 31, 2023. 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	CABOT CORPORATION
Permittee as filed	CABOT CORPORATION
NPDES ID	IL0004375
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	May 30, 2018
Expiration date	May 31, 2023
Address	Tuscola, IL 61953
Receiving water	SCATTERING FORKS CREEK
Subwatershed	Town of Tuscola-Scattering Branch (HUC 051201120204)
SIC	2819 – Industrial Inorganic Chemicals
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ILD042075333; ICIS-AIR source IL000041808AAH

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

8Pollutants on file
7Under 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
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	14	6	March 31, 2020	352% over the limit
pH	4	7	2	June 30, 2015
Solids, total suspended	6	13	1	April 30, 2017	8% over the limit
Oil and grease	4	5	1	February 28, 1999	20% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	4	0
Solids, total dissolved- 180 deg. C	0	1	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	2	0	0
Chlorine, total residual	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 IL0004375.

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 discharge permit NPDES IL0004375, held by CABOT CORPORATION in Tuscola, IL, which discharges to Scattering Forks Creek and is in the Town of Tuscola-Scattering Branch subwatershed (HUC 051201120204). The page lists a Minor Discharger class, 7 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit status shown as administratively continued.