Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LA0109894

MINDEN STEAM POWER PLANT, Minden, LA: NPDES LA0109894 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
10Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

MINDEN STEAM POWER PLANT, held by CITY OF MINDEN, holds NPDES permit LA0109894, which discharges to Mile Creek-Bayou Dorcheat. EPA’s file records it issued July 7, 2011 and expiring July 31, 2016. 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	MINDEN STEAM POWER PLANT
Permittee as filed	CITY OF MINDEN
NPDES ID	LA0109894
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	July 7, 2011
Expiration date	July 31, 2016
Address	Minden, LA 71055
Receiving water	MILE CREEK-BAYOU DORCHEAT
Subwatershed	Cooley Branch (HUC 111402030501)
SIC	4911 – Electric Services
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler LAR000012674

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

11Pollutants on file
10Under a numeric limit
9With a violation of any kind
0With 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
pH	10	10
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	10	10
Solids, total suspended	6	6
Oil & Grease	0	6
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	4	4
Zinc, total [as Zn]	4	4
Chlorine, free available	4	4
Copper, total [as Cu]	2	2
Iron, total [as Fe]	2	2
Oil and grease	6	0
Chromium, total [as Cr]	4	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES LA0109894.

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 LA0109894.

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 the NPDES LA0109894 discharge permit held by the City of Minden for the Minden Steam Power Plant in Minden, LA, which discharges to Mile Creek-Bayou Dorcheat within the Cooley Branch subwatershed (HUC 111402030501). The page lists a permit status of Administratively continued, a Minor discharger class, 0 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.