Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LA0127274

CLECO POWER LLC - ST MARY CLEAN ENERGY CENTER, Franklin, LA: NPDES LA0127274 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CLECO POWER LLC - ST MARY CLEAN ENERGY CENTER holds NPDES permit LA0127274. EPA’s file records it issued May 18, 2018 and expiring May 31, 2023. 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	CLECO POWER LLC - ST MARY CLEAN ENERGY CENTER
Permittee as filed	CLECO POWER LLC - ST MARY CLEAN ENERGY CENTER
NPDES ID	LA0127274
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	May 18, 2018
Expiration date	May 31, 2023
Address	Franklin, LA 70538
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Yokely Bayou-Frontal Intercoastal Waterway (HUC 080801020903)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler LAR000101639

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
12Under a numeric limit
7With 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
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	4	2	2	July 31, 2019	8% over the limit
Chlorine, free available	4	1	1	November 30, 2023	150% over the limit
pH	24	10	0
Oil & Grease	18	10	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	28	6	0
Solids, total suspended	24	6	0
Zinc, total [as Zn]	4	4	0
Chromium, total [as Cr]	4	0	0
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]	2	0	0
Lead, total [as Pb]	2	0	0
Benzene	2	0	0
BTEX	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 LA0127274.

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 Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES LA0127274 for CLECO POWER LLC - ST MARY CLEAN ENERGY CENTER in Franklin, LA, with the permit status shown as administratively continued. The page lists 12 as the discharger class, 2 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.