Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LA0000876

ST. BERNARD PORT HARBOR & TERM, Chalmette, LA: NPDES LA0000876 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

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

ST. BERNARD PORT HARBOR & TERM, held by ST BERNARD PORT HARBOR & TERM, holds NPDES permit LA0000876, which discharges to Mississippi River. EPA’s file records it issued September 7, 2018 and expiring September 30, 2023. 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	ST. BERNARD PORT HARBOR & TERM
Permittee as filed	ST BERNARD PORT HARBOR & TERM
NPDES ID	LA0000876
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	September 7, 2018
Expiration date	September 30, 2023
Address	Chalmette, LA 70044
Receiving water	MISSISSIPPI RIVER
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Mississippi River-Bonnet Carre Spillway (HUC 080901000101)
SIC	4491 – Marine Cargo Handling
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler LAR000001180

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

14Pollutants on file
7Under a numeric limit
13With a violation of any kind
7With 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
Coliform, fecal general	2	54	50	June 30, 2022	99,999% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	3	44	34	December 31, 2022	1,457% over the limit
pH	4	18	8	November 30, 2020
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	9	5	June 30, 2022	90% over the limit
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]	1	6	3	June 30, 2026	490% over the limit
Fluoride, total [as F]	0	8	2	June 30, 2007	68% over the limit
Oil and grease	0	4	1	June 30, 2007	233% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	14	0
Low Flow Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Daphnia pulex	0	10	0
NOAEC Lethal Statis Renewal 48 Hr Acute Daphnia pulex	0	10	0
LF Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Pimephales promelas	0	4	0
NOAEC Lethal Static Renewal 48Hr acute Pimephales promelas	0	4	0
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]	0	3	0
Oil & Grease	1	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 LA0000876.

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 the Clean Water Act NPDES permit LA0000876 held by ST. BERNARD PORT HARBOR & TERM in Chalmette, LA, which discharges to the Mississippi River and is administratively continued with a minor discharger class. The page lists 7 pollutants under a numeric limit and 7 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit issued September 7, 2018 and expiring September 30, 2023.