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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MO0095362

ASBURY RENEWABLE OPERATIONS CENTER, Asbury, MO: NPDES MO0095362 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

ASBURY RENEWABLE OPERATIONS CENTER, held by EMPIRE DIST ELECTRIC CO, holds NPDES permit MO0095362, which discharges to Tributary To Blackberry Creek. EPA’s file records it issued March 7, 2017 and expiring March 31, 2022. 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 filedASBURY RENEWABLE OPERATIONS CENTER
Permittee as filedEMPIRE DIST ELECTRIC CO
NPDES IDMO0095362
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedMarch 7, 2017
Expiration dateMarch 31, 2022
AddressAsbury, MO 64832
Receiving waterTributary to Blackberry Creek
SubwatershedBlackberry Creek (HUC 110702070507)
NAICS221112 – Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation
SIC4911 – Electric Services
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler MOD000766899

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

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Iron, total recoverable644March 31, 2022270% over the limit
Chlorine, free available033April 30, 2019801% over the limit
pH871December 31, 2024
Oil and grease [soxhlet extr.] tot.811June 30, 202220% over the limit
Lagoon freeboard111April 30, 20228% over the limit
Chloride [as Cl]0740
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant8430
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]6300
Sulfate, total [as SO4]2260
Chlorides + Sulfates8130
Ammonia [as N] + unionized ammonia0120
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]0100
Solids, total suspended800
Chloride800
Sulfate [as S]600
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]600
Boron, total recoverable600
Molybdenum, total [as Mo]600
Copper, total recoverable600
Nitrogen, total [as N]300
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]300
Phosphorus, total [as P]300

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
April 14, 2021Reporting Violations - Improper/ Incorrect ReportingST6

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MO0095362 for the Asbury Renewable Operations Center in Asbury, MO, held by Empire Dist Electric Co, with the permit listed as administratively continued and a minor discharger class. The page lists 18 pollutants under a numeric limit and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it gives the permit's issue and expiration dates as March 7, 2017 and March 31, 2022.