Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LA0001082

CABOT CORPORATION, Franklin, LA: NPDES LA0001082 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
7Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CABOT CORPORATION, held by CABOT CORPORATION- CANAL PLANT, holds NPDES permit LA0001082, which discharges to Intercoastal Canal. EPA’s file records it issued June 28, 2006 and expiring July 31, 2011. 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	CABOT CORPORATION
Permittee as filed	CABOT CORPORATION- CANAL PLANT
NPDES ID	LA0001082
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	June 28, 2006
Expiration date	July 31, 2011
Address	Franklin, LA 70538
Receiving water	INTERCOASTAL CANAL
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Billy Bayou-Frontal Intercoastal Waterway (HUC 080801020902)
SIC	2895 – Carbon Black
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler LAD008157653; ICIS-AIR source LA0000002210100004

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

8Pollutants on file
7Under a numeric limit
6With 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
Solids, total suspended	5	5	1	August 31, 2022	19% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	3	1	May 31, 2026	37% over the limit
pH	2	2	0
Coliform, fecal general	2	2	0
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]	2	1	0
Oil & Grease	0	1	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	5	0	0
Oil and grease	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 LA0001082.

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 Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES LA0001082, held by CABOT CORPORATION- CANAL PLANT in Franklin, LA, which discharges to Intercoastal Canal and is administratively continued. The page lists a Minor discharger class 7, 2 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.