Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0070645

LEICA BIOSYSTEMS RICHMOND, INC, Richmond, IL: NPDES IL0070645 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
4Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

LEICA BIOSYSTEMS RICHMOND, INC holds NPDES permit IL0070645, which discharges to Wetlands Trib To N Branch Nippersink Crk. EPA’s file records it issued January 16, 2019 and expiring January 31, 2024. 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	LEICA BIOSYSTEMS RICHMOND, INC
Permittee as filed	LEICA BIOSYSTEMS RICHMOND, INC
NPDES ID	IL0070645
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	January 16, 2019
Expiration date	January 31, 2024
Address	Richmond, IL 60071
Receiving water	WETLANDS TRIB TO N BRANCH NIPPERSINK CRK
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	North Branch Nippersink Creek (HUC 071200060802)
SIC	2833 – Medicinals And Botanicals
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler IL0000441006; ICIS-AIR source IL000111075AAK

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

4Pollutants on file
4Under a numeric limit
4With a violation of any kind
1With 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
Solids, total suspended	4	78	4	June 30, 2003	113% over the limit
pH	2	34	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	32	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	2	15	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 IL0070645.

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 IL0070645 held by LEICA BIOSYSTEMS RICHMOND, INC of Richmond, IL, a minor discharger whose permit is administratively continued. The page lists 1 pollutant under a numeric limit and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance, with the permit issued January 16, 2019 and expiring January 31, 2024.