Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LA0042838

LOUISIANA DOWNS INVESTMENT COMPANY, LLC - LOUISIANA DOWNS CASINO & RACETRACK, Bossier City, LA: NPDES LA0042838 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

LOUISIANA DOWNS INVESTMENT COMPANY, LLC - LOUISIANA DOWNS CASINO & RACETRACK, held by HARRAHS LOUISIANA DOWNS INC., holds NPDES permit LA0042838, which discharges to Red Chute Bayou. EPA’s file records it issued September 29, 2016 and expiring October 31, 2021. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	LOUISIANA DOWNS INVESTMENT COMPANY, LLC - LOUISIANA DOWNS CASINO & RACETRACK
Permittee as filed	HARRAHS LOUISIANA DOWNS INC.
NPDES ID	LA0042838
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 29, 2016
Expiration date	October 31, 2021
Address	Bossier City, LA 71171
Receiving water	RED CHUTE BAYOU
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Upper Red Chute Bayou (HUC 111402040202)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler LAD985220896

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

8Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
8With a violation of any kind
0With 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
pH	4	6
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	6
Nitrogen, total [as N]	2	3
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	3
Coliform, fecal general	2	3
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	2
Solids, total suspended	2	2
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	2

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES LA0042838.

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 LA0042838.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES LA0042838, held by Louisiana Downs Investment Company, LLC for its Louisiana Downs Casino & Racetrack in Bossier City, LA, which discharges to Red Chute Bayou. The permit is listed as administratively continued, with zero pollutants under a numeric limit and zero pollutants with an effluent exceedance.