Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LA0109509

HELMER DIRECTIONAL DRILLING INC., Youngsville, LA: NPDES LA0109509 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

HELMER DIRECTIONAL DRILLING INC., held by HELMER DIRECTIONAL DRILLING,, holds NPDES permit LA0109509, which discharges to Lasalle Coulee,B Parc Perdu Anselm. EPA’s file records it issued August 3, 2010 and expiring August 31, 2015. 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	HELMER DIRECTIONAL DRILLING INC.
Permittee as filed	HELMER DIRECTIONAL DRILLING,
NPDES ID	LA0109509
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	August 3, 2010
Expiration date	August 31, 2015
Address	Youngsville, LA 70592
Receiving water	LASALLE COULEE,B PARC PERDU ANSELM
Subwatershed	Bayou Tortue-La Salle Coulee (HUC 080801030302)
SIC	3533 – Oil And Gas Field Machinery

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

Effluent limits and exceedances

8Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
2With a violation of any kind
2With 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
Solids, total suspended	3	2	2	March 31, 2018	42% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	2	2	June 30, 2016	185% over the limit
pH	8	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	8	0	0
Oil & Grease	3	0	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	0	0
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]	2	0	0
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]	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 LA0109509.

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 NPDES permit LA0109509, held by HELMER DIRECTIONAL DRILLING INC. in Youngsville, LA, which discharges to LASALLE COULEE,B PARC PERDU ANSELM in the Bayou Tortue-La Salle Coulee watershed (HUC 080801030302). The permit is classed as a Minor Discharger and is listed as administratively continued, with 2 pollutants under a numeric limit and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.