Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LA0069850

INDORAMA VENTURES OLEFINS LLC .- LAKE CHARLES FACILITY, Lake Charles, LA: NPDES LA0069850 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
88Pollutants under a numeric limit
12Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
0Inspections on file
1Formal enforcement actions

INDORAMA VENTURES OLEFINS LLC .- LAKE CHARLES FACILITY, held by Indorama Ventures Olefins LLC, holds NPDES permit LA0069850, which discharges to Bayou D'Inde. EPA’s file records it issued September 29, 2016 and expiring December 31, 2021. 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	INDORAMA VENTURES OLEFINS LLC .- LAKE CHARLES FACILITY
Permittee as filed	Indorama Ventures Olefins LLC
NPDES ID	LA0069850
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 29, 2016
Expiration date	December 31, 2021
Address	Lake Charles, LA 70669
Receiving water	BAYOU D'INDE
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Maple Fork-Bayou D'Inde (HUC 080802060301)
SIC	2869 – Industrial Organic Chemicals
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler LAD981052376

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

93Pollutants on file
88Under a numeric limit
81With a violation of any kind
12With 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; the 60 with the most exceedances of 93 are shown.

Pollutant or measure	Limits	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	32	19	October 31, 2025	314% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	5	33	10	January 31, 2026	190% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	12	8	August 31, 2025	99,999% over the limit
pH	8	44	6	January 31, 2026
Naphthalene	2	20	4	February 28, 2026	360% over the limit
Toluene	2	15	3	November 30, 2025	2,365% over the limit
Phenol	2	16	2	March 31, 2000	29,900% over the limit
Enterococci	0	2	2	June 30, 2026	1,226% over the limit
Copper, total [as Cu]	4	8	1	December 31, 2024	27% over the limit
Oil & Grease	3	8	1	May 31, 2021	67% over the limit
pH range excursions, > 60 minutes	1	6	1	June 30, 2000	99,999% over the limit
Chrysene	2	3	1	November 30, 2003	20,000% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	10	33	0
Benzene	3	18	0
Ethylbenzene	2	12	0
pH range excursions, monthly total accum	1	12	0
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]	3	8	0
Vinyl chloride	2	8	0
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)	2	8	0
Mercury, total [as Hg]	4	7	0
Pass/Fail Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)	2	6	0
Pass/Fail Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Menidia	2	6	0
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (Mysidopsis bahia)	2	6	0
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia	2	6	0
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)	2	6	0
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia	2	6	0
Lead, total [as Pb]	1	6	0
Bromoform	1	5	0
1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane	1	5	0
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)	1	5	0
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Menidia menidia	1	5	0
Benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, xylene combination	0	5	0
Fluorene	2	4	0
Hexachloroethane	2	4	0
Methyl chloride [Chloromethane]	2	4	0
Methylene chloride	2	4	0
Nitrobenzene	2	4	0
Phenanthrene	2	4	0
Pyrene	2	4	0
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia	2	4	0
Hexachlorobutadiene	1	4	0
PCB-1254	1	4	0
Hexachlorobenzene	1	4	0
Carbon tetrachloride	2	2	0
Chloroform	2	2	0
Acenaphthylene	2	2	0
Acenaphthene	2	2	0
Acrylonitrile	2	2	0
Anthracene	2	2	0
Benzo[b]fluoranthene	2	2	0
Benzo[k]fluoranthene	2	2	0
Benzo[a]pyrene	2	2	0
Chlorobenzene	2	2	0
Diethyl phthalate	2	2	0
Dimethyl phthalate	2	2	0
Fluoranthene	2	2	0
Tetrachloroethylene	2	2	0
1,1-Dichloroethane	2	2	0
1,1-Dichloroethylene	2	2	0
1,1,1-Trichloroethane	2	2	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

16Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
May 29, 2022	Effluent Violations - Unauthorized Discharge	ST6
May 29, 2022	Management Practice Violations - Improper Operation and Maintenance	ST6
January 12, 2022	Reporting Violations - Failure to submit required report (non-DMR non-pretreatment)	ST6
May 28, 2019	Monitoring Violations - Improper Analysis or Lab Error	ST6
May 28, 2019	WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to Implement SWPPP/SWMP	ST6
May 28, 2019	Management Practice Violations - Failure to Implement SPCC Plan	ST6
May 28, 2019	Reporting Violations - Failure to submit required report (non-DMR non-pretreatment)	ST6
April 5, 2019	Effluent Violations - Industrial Spill	ST6
April 5, 2019	Effluent Violations - Reported Fish Kill	ST6
March 31, 2019	Reporting Violations - Improper/ Incorrect Reporting	ST6
March 15, 2019	Effluent Violations - Unauthorized Discharge	ST6
March 15, 2019	Effluent Violations - Narrative Effluent Violation	ST6
March 1, 2019	WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to Implement SWPPP/SWMP	ST6
February 27, 2019	Effluent Violations - Reported Fish Kill	ST6
January 16, 2019	Effluent Violations - Industrial Spill	ST6
January 16, 2019	Management Practice Violations - Failure to Implement SPCC Plan	ST6

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES LA0069850.

Formal enforcement and penalties

1 formal actions, 1 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency	Federal penalty	State or local penalty
May 12, 2026	State Administrative Order of Consent	State		$16,643

Informal enforcement

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
August 17, 2026	Under Review	State
February 11, 2026	Under Review	State

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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This public-records page covers NPDES permit LA0069850, held by Indorama Ventures Olefins LLC for its Lake Charles facility in Lake Charles, LA, which discharges to Bayou D'Inde. The permit is listed as a Major discharger, administratively continued, with 88 pollutants under a numeric limit and 12 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.