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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES INRM01726

MERCHANTS METALS INCORPORATED, New Paris, IN: NPDES INRM01726 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

MERCHANTS METALS INCORPORATED, held by Merchants Metals Incorporated, holds NPDES permit INRM01726. EPA’s file records it issued January 13, 2015 and expiring January 12, 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 filedMERCHANTS METALS INCORPORATED
Permittee as filedMerchants Metals Incorporated
NPDES IDINRM01726
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedJanuary 13, 2015
Expiration dateJanuary 12, 2020
Issuing agencyIDEM
AddressNew Paris, IN 46553
SubwatershedDausman Ditch-Turkey Creek (HUC 040500011708)
NAICS332618 – Other Fabricated Wire Product Manufacturing
SIC3496 – Miscellaneous Fabricated Wire Products
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler IND039349238

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
pH040
Solids, total suspended040
Oil and grease, hexane extr method040
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]040
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]040
Phosphorus, total [as P]040
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]040
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]040

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES INRM01726.

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 INRM01726.

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

Of all 45 storm water industrial permits in Elkhart County, this permit included, 8.9% were issued before this permit. The Dausman Ditch-Turkey Creek subwatershed contains 10 NPDES permits. MERCHANTS METALS INCORPORATED is counted among 45 storm water industrial permits on EPA's NPDES register in Elkhart County, and 13.3% of those carry a violation on file.