Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IN0046931

FORT WAYNE FOUNDRY CORPORATION, Columbia City, IN: NPDES IN0046931 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
7Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

FORT WAYNE FOUNDRY CORPORATION holds NPDES permit IN0046931, which discharges to Spy Run Cr Via Ditch. EPA’s file records it issued November 20, 2003 and expiring December 31, 2008. 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	FORT WAYNE FOUNDRY CORPORATION
Permittee as filed	FORT WAYNE FOUNDRY CORPORATION
NPDES ID	IN0046931
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	November 20, 2003
Expiration date	December 31, 2008
Address	Columbia City, IN 46725
Receiving water	SPY RUN CR VIA DITCH
Subwatershed	Solon Ditch-Eel river (HUC 051201040204)
SIC	3365 – Aluminum Foundries
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler IND139587240; ICIS-AIR source IN0000001818300045

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

8Pollutants on file
7Under a numeric limit
8With a violation of any kind
4With 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
Chlorine, total residual	4	10	10	August 31, 2009	100% over the limit
Oil & Grease	2	14	7	December 31, 2008	140% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	7	4	3	January 31, 2007	1% over the limit
Oil and grease, hexane extr method	0	1	1	February 28, 2010	12% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	6	28	0
pH	2	6	0
Solids, total suspended	1	2	0
Flow, total	1	2	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 IN0046931.

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.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit IN0046931 held by FORT WAYNE FOUNDRY CORPORATION in Columbia City, IN, which discharges to Spy Run Cr Via Ditch within the Solon Ditch-Eel river subwatershed (HUC 051201040204). The permit is listed as administratively continued, classed as a minor discharger, with 4 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.