Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LA0127040

PEARL, INC., Chauvin, LA: NPDES LA0127040 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
5Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

PEARL, INC., held by PEARL INC - PRICE PLANT, holds NPDES permit LA0127040. EPA’s file records it issued August 10, 2015 and expiring July 9, 2020. 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	PEARL, INC.
Permittee as filed	PEARL INC - PRICE PLANT
NPDES ID	LA0127040
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 10, 2015
Expiration date	July 9, 2020
Address	Chauvin, LA 70344
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Bayou Chauvin-Frontal Lake Boudreaux (HUC 080903020602)
SIC	2092 – Fresh Or Frozen Prepared Fish

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

7Pollutants on file
5Under a numeric limit
7With 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
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	12
pH	2	12
Solids, total suspended	2	12
Oil & Grease	2	12
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	12
Nitrogen, total [as N]	0	4
Phosphorus, total [as P]	0	4

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES LA0127040.

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

3Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
May 4, 2025	Permit Violations - Failure to Submit Timely Permit Renewal Application	ST6
August 4, 2022	Failure to develop, maintain, or get approval of an adequate SWPPP (industrial stormwater)	ST6
April 3, 2020	Permit Violations - Application Incomplete	ST6

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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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES LA0127040, held by PEARL, INC. at Chauvin, LA, with a permit status of administratively continued and a discharger class of minor. The facts list 7 pollutants on file, 5 under a numeric limit, and 7 with a violation of any kind.