Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LA0005665

AMERICAN SUGAR REFINING, INC, Arabi, LA: NPDES LA0005665 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
15Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

AMERICAN SUGAR REFINING, INC, held by American Sugar Refining, holds NPDES permit LA0005665, which discharges to Mississippi River. EPA’s file records it issued September 3, 2014 and expiring September 30, 2019. 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	AMERICAN SUGAR REFINING, INC
Permittee as filed	American Sugar Refining
NPDES ID	LA0005665
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Major discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	September 3, 2014
Expiration date	September 30, 2019
Address	Arabi, LA 70032
Receiving water	MISSISSIPPI RIVER
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Mississippi River-Bonnet Carre Spillway (HUC 080901000101)
SIC	2062 – Cane Sugar Refining
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler LAD008162364; ICIS-AIR source LA0000002208700009

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

16Pollutants on file
15Under 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
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	114	86	July 31, 2025	591% over the limit
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]	1	27	19	December 31, 2019	5,980% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	2	38	18	January 31, 2019	331% over the limit
pH	4	39	5	September 30, 2020
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	32	0
Oil & Grease	1	8	0
Oil and grease	0	2	0
Whole effluent toxicity - retest #1	4	0	0
Whole effluent toxicity - retest #2	4	0	0
Whole Effluent Toxicity - Retest #3	4	0	0
Low Flow Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Daphnia pulex	2	0	0
LF Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Pimephales promelas	2	0	0
NOAEC Lethal Statis Renewal 48 Hr Acute Daphnia pulex	2	0	0
NOAEC Lethal Static Renewal 48Hr acute Pimephales promelas	2	0	0
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 48Hr Acute D. pulex	1	0	0
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Pimephales promelas	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

5Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
April 13, 2023	Failure to properly install, initiate, or fully implement industrial stormwater controls	ST6
October 15, 2021	Effluent Violations - Industrial Spill	ST6
October 15, 2021	Management Practice Violations - Improper Operation and Maintenance	ST6
January 20, 2020	Effluent Violations - Industrial Spill	ST6
January 20, 2020	Management Practice Violations - Improper Operation and Maintenance	ST6

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 NPDES permit LA0005665, held by AMERICAN SUGAR REFINING, INC in Arabi, LA, which discharges to the MISSISSIPPI RIVER and is classed as a Major Discharger with an administratively continued permit status. The page lists 4 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, based on EPA's permit file as loaded on October 14, 2026.