Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LA0079278

LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT - JIM LOVE WATER PLANT, Lafayette, LA: NPDES LA0079278 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

EffectivePermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT - JIM LOVE WATER PLANT, held by Lafayette Consolidated Government - Jim Love Water Plant, holds NPDES permit LA0079278. EPA’s file records it issued August 21, 2025 and expiring September 30, 2030. 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	LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT - JIM LOVE WATER PLANT
Permittee as filed	Lafayette Consolidated Government - Jim Love Water Plant
NPDES ID	LA0079278
Permit status	Effective
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	August 21, 2025
Expiration date	September 30, 2030
Issuing agency	LDEQ
Address	Lafayette, LA 70508
Subwatershed	Coulee Ile Des Cannes (HUC 080801030108)
SIC	4941 – Water Supply
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler LAR000037093

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
7With a violation of any kind
5With 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
pH	10	7	5	June 30, 2022
Oil & Grease	4	6	5	September 30, 2021	326% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	6	8	3	July 31, 2024	137% over the limit
Oil and grease	0	2	2	September 30, 2021	111% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	1	1	December 31, 2015	350% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	10	2	0
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]	4	2	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	0	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	2	0	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	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 LA0079278.

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 LA0079278, held by Lafayette Consolidated Government - Jim Love Water Plant in Lafayette, LA, and lists its status as Effective with a Minor discharger class. The page shows 9 pollutants under a numeric limit and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and gives the permit's issue date as August 21, 2025 and its expiration date as September 30, 2030.