Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES KY0082686

NUCOR STEEL GALLATIN LLC, Ghent, KY: NPDES KY0082686 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

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

NUCOR STEEL GALLATIN LLC, held by GALLATIN TERMINAL CO, holds NPDES permit KY0082686, which discharges to Ohio River. EPA’s file records it issued January 10, 2008 and expiring February 28, 2013. 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	NUCOR STEEL GALLATIN LLC
Permittee as filed	GALLATIN TERMINAL CO
NPDES ID	KY0082686
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	January 10, 2008
Expiration date	February 28, 2013
Address	Ghent, KY 41045
Receiving water	OHIO RIVER
Subwatershed	Hunt Creek-Ohio River (HUC 050902031009)
NAICS	488310 – Port and Harbor Operations
SIC	4491 – Marine Cargo Handling

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

8Pollutants on file
7Under a numeric limit
7With 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
Solids, total suspended	2	11	7	March 31, 2013	257% over the limit
Iron, total recoverable	2	12	6	February 28, 2018	108% over the limit
pH	2	5	1	September 30, 2017
Oil and grease	2	5	1	June 30, 2012	87% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	6	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	4	0
Magnesium, total [as Mg]	0	4	0
Manganese, total [as Mn]	2	0	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 KY0082686.

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 Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES KY0082686, held by GALLATIN TERMINAL CO for NUCOR STEEL GALLATIN LLC in Ghent, KY, which discharges to the OHIO RIVER within the Hunt Creek-Ohio River subwatershed (HUC 050902031009). The permit is listed as administratively continued, with 4 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and the facility is classed as a Minor discharger.