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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0035416

BUNGE NORTH AMERICA, INC., Gibson City, IL: NPDES IL0035416 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BUNGE NORTH AMERICA, INC., held by SOLAE LLC, holds NPDES permit IL0035416, which discharges to Drummer Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 3, 2020 and expiring September 30, 2025. 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 filedBUNGE NORTH AMERICA, INC.
Permittee as filedSOLAE LLC
NPDES IDIL0035416
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 3, 2020
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2025
AddressGibson City, IL 60936
Receiving waterDRUMMER CREEK
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedWest Branch Drummer Creek (HUC 071300060104)
SIC2075 – Soybean Oil Mills
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler ILD005129614; ICIS-AIR source IL000053803AAB

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

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C44646July 31, 2026731% over the limit
Solids, total suspended44743May 31, 20261,300% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]522April 30, 20267% over the limit
Oil & Grease411December 31, 200826% over the limit
Iron, total [as Fe]440
pH240
Oil and grease [soxhlet extr.] tot.040
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant1830
Chlorine, total residual110
Nitrogen, total [as N]200
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]200
Phosphorus, total [as P]200
Coliform, fecal general100

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES IL0035416.

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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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit IL0035416, held by SOLAE LLC for BUNGE NORTH AMERICA, INC. in Gibson City, IL, which discharges to Drummer Creek and is administratively continued past its September 30, 2025 expiration. The page lists 12 pollutants under a numeric limit, 4 of which had an effluent exceedance, and a permit classed as a minor discharger, with the watershed code HUC 071300060104.