Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LA0007650

RUSTON PLANT, Ruston, LA: NPDES LA0007650 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

RUSTON PLANT, held by ARDAGH GLASS INC, holds NPDES permit LA0007650. 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	RUSTON PLANT
Permittee as filed	ARDAGH GLASS INC
NPDES ID	LA0007650
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	Ruston, LA 71275
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Lower Big Creek (HUC 080402060704)
SIC	3221 – Glass Containers
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler LAD084473883; ICIS-AIR source LA0000002206100002

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

10Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
8With 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
Oil & Grease	9	12	12	July 31, 2023	290% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	12	9	9	July 31, 2023	113% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	6	6	March 31, 2023	520% over the limit
pH	12	7	5	November 30, 2021
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	12	1	0
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]	1	1	0
Iron, total recoverable	1	1	0
Oil and grease	0	1	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	6	0	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	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 LA0007650.

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 LA0007650 for the RUSTON PLANT in Ruston, LA, held by ARDAGH GLASS INC, with the permit listed as administratively continued and a Minor Discharger class. The facts list 4 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and the permit's recorded issue and expiration dates are September 7, 2018 and September 30, 2023.