Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LA0121525

NORTH YARD, Houma, LA: NPDES LA0121525 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
11Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

NORTH YARD, held by OFFSHORE SPECIALTY FABRICATORS LLC, holds NPDES permit LA0121525. EPA’s file records it issued August 1, 2011 and expiring August 31, 2016. 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	NORTH YARD
Permittee as filed	OFFSHORE SPECIALTY FABRICATORS LLC
NPDES ID	LA0121525
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 1, 2011
Expiration date	August 31, 2016
Address	Houma, LA 70361
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Bayou La Carpe-Houma Navigation Canal (HUC 080903020601)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler LAD985172808; ICIS-AIR source LA0000002210900109

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

12Pollutants on file
11Under a numeric limit
12With a violation of any kind
1With 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	15	108	2	June 30, 2017	53% over the limit
pH	20	132	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	20	132	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	12	86	0
Coliform, fecal general	12	86	0
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]	3	15	0
Lead, total [as Pb]	2	12	0
Oil and grease	3	9	0
Oil & Grease	0	8	0
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]	1	6	0
Benzene	1	6	0
BTEX	1	6	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 LA0121525.

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 NPDES permit LA0121525 for the NORTH YARD facility in Houma, LA, held by OFFSHORE SPECIALTY FABRICATORS LLC, with a status of administratively continued and a Minor Discharger class. The page lists 1 pollutant under a numeric limit and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance, and it reports 12 effluent limits and exceedances in total.