Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0025461

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS WEST TERMINAL, Arlington Heights, IL: NPDES IL0025461 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS WEST TERMINAL, held by CITGO PETROLEUM CORPORATION, holds NPDES permit IL0025461, which discharges to Higgins Creek. EPA’s file records it issued June 19, 2018 and expiring June 30, 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	ARLINGTON HEIGHTS WEST TERMINAL
Permittee as filed	CITGO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
NPDES ID	IL0025461
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	June 19, 2018
Expiration date	June 30, 2023
Address	Arlington Heights, IL 60005
Receiving water	HIGGINS CREEK
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Willow Creek (HUC 071200040504)
SIC	5171 – Petroleum Bulk Stations & Terminals
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ILD064389828; ICIS-AIR source IL000031804AAM

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

12Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
12With a violation of any kind
0With 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
pH	8	50
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	8	48
Toluene	12	40
Ethylbenzene	12	40
Xylene [mix of m+o+p]	12	40
Oil & Grease	4	36
Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons [PAHs]	10	22
Benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, xylene combination	10	22
Benzene	10	22
Chlorine, total residual	2	18
Oil and grease	4	16
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	14

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES IL0025461.

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 IL0025461.

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 IL0025461 for the Arlington Heights West Terminal in Arlington Heights, IL, held by CITGO Petroleum Corporation and discharging to Higgins Creek, with the permit listed as administratively continued. The page reports 12 as the pollutant count under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it lists the Willow Creek watershed as HUC 071200040504.