Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LA0097161

LINDE, INC. -GEISMAR FACILITY, Geismar, LA: NPDES LA0097161 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
7Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

LINDE, INC. -GEISMAR FACILITY, held by PRAXAIR,INC. -GEISMAR FACILITY, holds NPDES permit LA0097161, which discharges to New River Petite Amite Blind River. EPA’s file records it issued July 9, 2013 and expiring July 31, 2018. 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	LINDE, INC. -GEISMAR FACILITY
Permittee as filed	PRAXAIR,INC. -GEISMAR FACILITY
NPDES ID	LA0097161
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	July 9, 2013
Expiration date	July 31, 2018
Address	Geismar, LA 70734
Receiving water	NEW RIVER PETITE AMITE BLIND RIVER
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Grand Goudine Bayou-New River (HUC 080702040103)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler LAD048104608; ICIS-AIR source LA0000002200500031

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

11Pollutants on file
7Under a numeric limit
10With a violation of any kind
3With 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
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]	5	5	3	February 28, 2023	340% over the limit
pH	10	3	1	January 31, 2020
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	0	3	1	January 31, 2020	127% over the limit
Zinc, total [as Zn]	1	4	0
Solids, total suspended	0	4	0
Copper, total [as Cu]	0	4	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	10	2	0
Oil & Grease	0	2	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	2	1	0
Chlorine, total residual	2	1	0
Oil and grease	5	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 LA0097161.

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 the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES LA0097161, held by PRAXAIR,INC. -GEISMAR FACILITY for LINDE, INC. -GEISMAR FACILITY in Geismar, LA, which discharges to New River Petite Amite Blind River. The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a discharger class of 7 and 3 pollutants under a numeric limit, of which 3 had an effluent exceedance.