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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES INRM00869

HILLS PET NUTRITION, Richmond, IN: NPDES INRM00869 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

HILLS PET NUTRITION, held by Hills Pet Nutrition, holds NPDES permit INRM00869, which discharges to Whitewater River. EPA’s file records it issued February 12, 2019 and expiring May 23, 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 filedHILLS PET NUTRITION
Permittee as filedHills Pet Nutrition
NPDES IDINRM00869
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedFebruary 12, 2019
Expiration dateMay 23, 2024
Issuing agencyIDEM
AddressRichmond, IN 47374
Receiving waterWhitewater River
SubwatershedWest Fork East Fork Whitewater River (HUC 050800030705)
NAICS311111 – Dog and Cat Food Manufacturing
SIC2047 – Dog And Cat Food
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler IND984895896; ICIS-AIR source IN0000001817700041

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

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
pH220
Solids, total suspended220
Oil and grease, hexane extr method220
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]220
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]220
Phosphorus, total [as P]220
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]220
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]220

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES INRM00869.

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES INRM00869.

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.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit INRM00869, held by Hills Pet Nutrition in Richmond, IN, which discharges to the Whitewater River within subwatershed HUC 050800030705. The permit is listed as Effective, a Minor discharger class 8, with 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.