Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ING250036

DEAN FOODS CO, Rochester, IN: NPDES ING250036 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
5Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

DEAN FOODS CO, held by DEAN FOODS COMPANY, holds NPDES permit ING250036, which discharges to Tippecanoe R Via Mill Creek. EPA’s file records it issued April 15, 2006 and expiring November 30, 2011. 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	DEAN FOODS CO
Permittee as filed	DEAN FOODS COMPANY
NPDES ID	ING250036
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	April 15, 2006
Expiration date	November 30, 2011
Issuing agency	IDEM
Address	Rochester, IN 46975
Receiving water	TIPPECANOE R VIA MILL CREEK
Subwatershed	Lake Manitou-Mill Creek (HUC 051201060502)
SIC	2026 – Fluid Milk
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler IND005103973

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

6Pollutants on file
5Under a numeric limit
6With a violation of any kind
2With 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
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	14	84	57	December 31, 2008	46% over the limit
pH	2	28	2	October 31, 2003
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	26	0
Oil and grease, hexane extr method	0	16	0
Flow, total	1	12	0
Oil & Grease	2	10	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 ING250036.

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 ING250036, held by DEAN FOODS COMPANY for the DEAN FOODS CO facility in Rochester, IN, which discharges to the Tippecanoe R via Mill Creek. The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a Minor Discharger class of 5, 2 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.