Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0049832

DEKALB COUNTY PACKING COMPANY, Dekalb, IL: NPDES IL0049832 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

DEKALB COUNTY PACKING COMPANY holds NPDES permit IL0049832, which discharges to Unnamed Trib To Union Ditch #1. EPA’s file records it issued December 13, 2018 and expiring December 31, 2023. 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	DEKALB COUNTY PACKING COMPANY
Permittee as filed	DEKALB COUNTY PACKING COMPANY
NPDES ID	IL0049832
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 13, 2018
Expiration date	December 31, 2023
Address	Dekalb, IL 60115
Receiving water	UNNAMED TRIB TO UNION DITCH #1
Subwatershed	Union Ditch No. 3 (HUC 070900060503)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

12Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
8With a violation of any kind
6With 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
Coliform, fecal general	1	8	8	June 30, 2022	99,999% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	7	7	August 31, 2004	224% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	19	4	4	May 31, 2024	73% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	1	1	April 30, 2004	17% over the limit
Oil and grease	4	1	1	August 31, 2020	23% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	1	1	June 30, 2022	22% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	2	0
Chlorine, total residual	1	2	0
Total production - mass	4	0	0
pH	2	0	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	1	0	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	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 IL0049832.

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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This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES IL0049832, held by DEKALB COUNTY PACKING COMPANY in Dekalb, IL, which discharges to UNNAMED TRIB TO UNION DITCH #1 within subwatershed Union Ditch No. 3 (HUC 070900060503). The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a minor discharger class, and the facts show 12 pollutants on file, 8 of them under a numeric limit, and 6 with an effluent exceedance.