Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MO0002500

TYSON CHICKEN - NOEL PROCESSING PLANT, Noel, MO: NPDES MO0002500 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
21Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

TYSON CHICKEN - NOEL PROCESSING PLANT, held by Tyson Chicken, Inc., holds NPDES permit MO0002500, which discharges to Elk R.. EPA’s file records it issued August 17, 2020 and expiring June 30, 2025. 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	TYSON CHICKEN - NOEL PROCESSING PLANT
Permittee as filed	Tyson Chicken, Inc.
NPDES ID	MO0002500
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
Program	Industrial stormwater
Issued	August 17, 2020
Expiration date	June 30, 2025
Address	Noel, MO 64854
Receiving water	Elk R.
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Yarnell Branch-Elk River (HUC 110702080504)
SIC	2015 – Poultry Slaughtering And Processing
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler MOD985774728

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

22Pollutants on file
21Under a numeric limit
20With a violation of any kind
5With 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
Phosphorus, total [as P]	5	50	5	December 31, 2018	211% over the limit
pH	10	12	4	September 30, 2021
Chlorine, total residual	2	8	4	April 30, 2014	99,999% over the limit
Nitrogen, total [as N]	3	6	2	January 31, 2019	10% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	6	2	March 31, 2022	98% over the limit
Ammonia [as N] + unionized ammonia	0	45	0
E. coli	2	8	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	6	6	0
Oil and grease [soxhlet extr.] tot.	6	6	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	3	5	0
Solids, total suspended	6	4	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	3	4	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	3	4	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	2	4	0
Sulfate, total [as SO4]	2	4	0
Chloride	2	4	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	4	0
Chlorides + Sulfates	2	4	0
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia	1	1	0
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	1	1	0
Rainfall	4	0	0
Storm water flow	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 MO0002500.

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 NPDES permit MO0002500 for TYSON CHICKEN - NOEL PROCESSING PLANT in Noel, MO, held by Tyson Chicken, Inc., with its status as administratively continued and its discharger class listed as Minor. The page lists 21 pollutants under a numeric limit and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit's issue date of August 17, 2020 and expiration date of June 30, 2025 as recorded in EPA's file.