Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0005193

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD, Homewood, IL: NPDES IL0005193 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD holds NPDES permit IL0005193, which discharges to See Permit. EPA’s file records it issued December 6, 2017 and expiring December 31, 2022. 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	ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD
Permittee as filed	ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD
NPDES ID	IL0005193
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 6, 2017
Expiration date	December 31, 2022
Address	Homewood, IL 60430
Receiving water	SEE PERMIT
Subwatershed	Little Calumet River (HUC 071200030405)
SIC	4011 – Railroads, Line-Haul Operating
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ILD057862393; ICIS-AIR source IL000031075AAB

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

25Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
23With 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
Oil and grease	2	11	3	July 31, 2005	67% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	2	7	3	July 31, 2023	63% over the limit
pH	2	9	1	October 31, 2024
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	11	0
Toluene	1	2	0
Benzene	1	2	0
Ethylbenzene	1	2	0
Acenaphthylene	0	2	0
Acenaphthene	0	2	0
Anthracene	0	2	0
Benzo[k]fluoranthene	0	2	0
Benzo[a]pyrene	0	2	0
Chrysene	0	2	0
Fluoranthene	0	2	0
Fluorene	0	2	0
Indeno[1,2,3-cd]pyrene	0	2	0
Phenanthrene	0	2	0
Pyrene	0	2	0
Benzo[ghi]perylene	0	2	0
Benzo[a]anthracene	0	2	0
Dibenz[a,h]anthracene	0	2	0
Naphthalene	0	2	0
Xylene [mix of m+o+p]	0	2	0
Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons [PAHs]	1	0	0
Benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, xylene combination	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 IL0005193.

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 NPDES permit IL0005193 held by ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD in Homewood, IL, an individual minor discharger permit with administratively continued status. It lists 9 as the discharger class, 3 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and gives the Little Calumet River (HUC 071200030405) subwatershed.