Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES INP000255

FIVE STAR LAUNDRY - CHICAGO LLC, Portage, IN: NPDES INP000255 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

FIVE STAR LAUNDRY - CHICAGO LLC, held by TEX HOLDINGS INC, holds NPDES permit INP000255, which discharges to Portage Potw (Burns Ditch). EPA’s file records it issued June 18, 2015 and expiring September 30, 2020. 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	FIVE STAR LAUNDRY - CHICAGO LLC
Permittee as filed	TEX HOLDINGS INC
NPDES ID	INP000255
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	State-issued individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	June 18, 2015
Expiration date	September 30, 2020
Issuing agency	IDEM
Address	Portage, IN 46368
Receiving water	PORTAGE POTW (BURNS DITCH)
Subwatershed	Coffee Creek-East Arm Little Calumet River (HUC 040400010403)
SIC	7219 – Laundry And Garment Services

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

Effluent limits and exceedances

9Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
9With 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
pH	2	20	14	June 30, 2021
Oil and grease, hexane extr method	2	7	3	December 31, 2015	99,999% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	10	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	1	4	0
Solids, total suspended	1	2	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	1	2	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	1	2	0
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	1	2	0
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]	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 INP000255.

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 INP000255, held by TEX HOLDINGS INC for FIVE STAR LAUNDRY - CHICAGO LLC in Portage, IN, which discharges to Portage Potw (Burns Ditch). The permit is administratively continued, with a Minor Discharger class, 2 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.