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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LA0005355

EXXON-BATON ROUGE PLASTICS PLANT, Baton Rouge, LA: NPDES LA0005355 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

EXXON-BATON ROUGE PLASTICS PLANT, held by Exxon Chemical Company-Baton Rouge, holds NPDES permit LA0005355, which discharges to Fortune Bayou. EPA’s file records it issued July 31, 2015 and expiring August 31, 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 filedEXXON-BATON ROUGE PLASTICS PLANT
Permittee as filedExxon Chemical Company-Baton Rouge
NPDES IDLA0005355
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedJuly 31, 2015
Expiration dateAugust 31, 2020
AddressBaton Rouge, LA 70821
Receiving waterFORTUNE BAYOU
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedDevils Swamp-Bayou Baton Rouge (HUC 080702010402)
SIC2821 – Plastics Materials And Resins
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler LAD000778381; ICIS-AIR source LA0000002203300018

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; the 60 with the most exceedances of 81 are shown.

Pollutant or measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
pH10137October 31, 2019
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C251May 31, 201699,999% over the limit
1,2-Dichloroethane, total weight0100
Oil and grease690
Solids, total suspended370
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]460
Pass/Fail Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia260
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia160
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant1150
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia240
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia240
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia240
Benzene530
Carbon tetrachloride420
1,2-Dichloroethane420
Chloroform420
Toluene420
Acenaphthylene420
Acenaphthene420
Acrylonitrile420
Anthracene420
Benzo[b]fluoranthene420
Benzo[k]fluoranthene420
Benzo[a]pyrene420
Chlorobenzene420
Chrysene420
Diethyl phthalate420
Dimethyl phthalate420
Ethylbenzene420
Fluoranthene420
Fluorene420
Hexachlorobutadiene420
Hexachloroethane420
Methyl chloride [Chloromethane]420
Methylene chloride420
Nitrobenzene420
Phenanthrene420
Pyrene420
Tetrachloroethylene420
1,1-Dichloroethane420
1,1-Dichloroethylene420
1,1,1-Trichloroethane420
1,1,2-Trichloroethane420
Benzo[a]anthracene420
1,2-Dichlorobenzene420
1,2-Dichloropropane420
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene420
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene420
1,3-Dichlorobenzene420
1,4-Dichlorobenzene420
2-Nitrophenol420
2,4-Dimethylphenol420
2,4-Dinitrophenol420
4-Nitrophenol420
4,6-Dinitro-o-cresol420
Phenol420
Naphthalene420
Di[2-ethylhexyl] phthalate [DEHP]420
Di-n-butyl phthalate420
Vinyl chloride420

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 LA0005355.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES LA0005355 for the EXXON-BATON ROUGE PLASTICS PLANT in Baton Rouge, LA, held by Exxon Chemical Company-Baton Rouge, which discharges to Fortune Bayou. The permit is listed as a Major Discharger class, administratively continued, with 2 pollutants under a numeric limit and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it is in the Devils Swamp-Bayou Baton Rouge subwatershed (HUC 080702010402).