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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LA0052370

CALCASIEU REFINING COMPANY, Lake Charles, LA: NPDES LA0052370 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CALCASIEU REFINING COMPANY, held by Calcasieu Refining Company, holds NPDES permit LA0052370, which discharges to Calcasieu River. EPA’s file records it issued January 14, 2013 and expiring January 31, 2018. 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 filedCALCASIEU REFINING COMPANY
Permittee as filedCalcasieu Refining Company
NPDES IDLA0052370
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
IssuedJanuary 14, 2013
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2018
AddressLake Charles, LA 70605
Receiving waterCALCASIEU RIVER
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedCalcasieu River-Prien Lake (HUC 080802060303)
SIC2911 – Petroleum Refining
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler LAD099393225; ICIS-AIR source LA0000002201900050

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.

Pollutant or measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C223915December 31, 2016222% over the limit
Phenolics, total recoverable61412December 31, 2009525% over the limit
Solids, total suspended234111June 30, 2016221% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general1686December 31, 201499,999% over the limit
Chromium, hexavalent [as Cr]664January 31, 201856% over the limit
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]6193December 31, 2022287% over the limit
pH range excursions, > 60 minutes183August 31, 200899,999% over the limit
Oil and grease12402October 31, 200525% over the limit
Sulfide, total [as S]6242October 31, 202196% over the limit
Mercury, total [as Hg]2132March 31, 2012224% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]662June 30, 201573% over the limit
pH22401September 30, 2012
pH range excursions, monthly total accum161March 31, 200814% over the limit
Oil & Grease011March 31, 2021399% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant22400
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]6220
Copper, total [as Cu]0110
Lead, total [as Pb]160
Benzene160
BTEX160
Chromium, total [as Cr]640
Pass/Fail Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)640
Pass/Fail Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Menidia640
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (Mysidopsis bahia)640
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia640
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)640
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia640
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)640
Benzo[a]pyrene130
Benzo[a]anthracene130
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia620
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)320
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Menidia menidia320
Whole effluent toxicity - retest #11200
Whole effluent toxicity - retest #21200
WET, sublethal retest #11200
WET, sublethal retest #21200
Whole Effluent Toxicity - Retest #31200
Whole Effluent Toxicity, Sub-Lethal Retest #31200

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
November 6, 2019Effluent Violations - Industrial SpillST6

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 LA0052370, held by Calcasieu Refining Company in Lake Charles, LA, which discharges to the Calcasieu River in the Calcasieu River-Prien Lake subwatershed (HUC 080802060303). The permit is listed as administratively continued and a Major discharger, with 14 pollutants under a numeric limit and 37 in the discharger class, and 14 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.