Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LA0125270

FLOPAM INC.-PLAQUEMINE PLANT, Plaquemine, LA: NPDES LA0125270 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
67Pollutants under a numeric limit
6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
0Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

FLOPAM INC.-PLAQUEMINE PLANT, held by FLOPAM INC., holds NPDES permit LA0125270. EPA’s file records it issued September 29, 2016 and expiring October 31, 2021. 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	FLOPAM INC.-PLAQUEMINE PLANT
Permittee as filed	FLOPAM INC.
NPDES ID	LA0125270
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Major discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	September 29, 2016
Expiration date	October 31, 2021
Address	Plaquemine, LA 70764
Subwatershed	Bayou La Butte-Logging Canal (HUC 080703000401)
SIC	2899 – Chemical Preparations
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler LAR000073445; ICIS-AIR source LA0000002204700141

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

69Pollutants on file
67Under a numeric limit
9With a violation of any kind
6With 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; the 60 with the most exceedances of 69 are shown.

Pollutant or measure	Limits	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	16	14	March 31, 2025	308% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	22	16	13	September 30, 2022	4,656% over the limit
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]	7	7	4	August 31, 2021	2,440% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	4	4	September 30, 2012	400% over the limit
Oil and grease	0	6	1	October 31, 2013	13% over the limit
pH range excursions, > 60 minutes	0	1	1	September 30, 2025	2,147,483,650% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	22	12	0
pH	16	6	0
Oil & Grease	9	2	0
Benzene	6	0	0
Carbon tetrachloride	4	0	0
1,2-Dichloroethane	4	0	0
Chloroform	4	0	0
Toluene	4	0	0
Acenaphthylene	4	0	0
Acenaphthene	4	0	0
Acrylonitrile	4	0	0
Anthracene	4	0	0
Benzo[b]fluoranthene	4	0	0
Benzo[k]fluoranthene	4	0	0
Benzo[a]pyrene	4	0	0
Chlorobenzene	4	0	0
Chrysene	4	0	0
Diethyl phthalate	4	0	0
Dimethyl phthalate	4	0	0
Ethylbenzene	4	0	0
Fluoranthene	4	0	0
Fluorene	4	0	0
Hexachlorobutadiene	4	0	0
Hexachloroethane	4	0	0
Methyl chloride [Chloromethane]	4	0	0
Methylene chloride	4	0	0
Nitrobenzene	4	0	0
Phenanthrene	4	0	0
Pyrene	4	0	0
Tetrachloroethylene	4	0	0
1,1-Dichloroethane	4	0	0
1,1-Dichloroethylene	4	0	0
1,1,1-Trichloroethane	4	0	0
1,1,2-Trichloroethane	4	0	0
Benzo[a]anthracene	4	0	0
1,2-Dichlorobenzene	4	0	0
1,2-Dichloropropane	4	0	0
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene	4	0	0
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene	4	0	0
1,3-Dichlorobenzene	4	0	0
1,4-Dichlorobenzene	4	0	0
2-Nitrophenol	4	0	0
2,4-Dimethylphenol	4	0	0
2,4-Dinitrophenol	4	0	0
4-Nitrophenol	4	0	0
4,6-Dinitro-o-cresol	4	0	0
Phenol	4	0	0
Naphthalene	4	0	0
Di[2-ethylhexyl] phthalate [DEHP]	4	0	0
Di-n-butyl phthalate	4	0	0
Vinyl chloride	4	0	0
Trichloroethylene	4	0	0
Hexachlorobenzene	4	0	0
1,3-Dichloropropylene	4	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 LA0125270.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES LA0125270.

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES LA0125270.

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 LA0125270 held by FLOPAM INC. for its FLOPAM INC.-PLAQUEMINE PLANT in Plaquemine, LA, classed as a Major Discharger and listed as administratively continued. The register shows 67 pollutants under a numeric limit, of which 6 had an effluent exceedance, within the Bayou La Butte-Logging Canal subwatershed (HUC 080703000401).