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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MO0102237

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD-POPLAR BLUFF YARD, Poplar Bluff, MO: NPDES MO0102237 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD-POPLAR BLUFF YARD, held by Union Pacific Railroad, holds NPDES permit MO0102237, which discharges to Black River. EPA’s file records it issued January 9, 2015 and expiring January 31, 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 filedUNION PACIFIC RAILROAD-POPLAR BLUFF YARD
Permittee as filedUnion Pacific Railroad
NPDES IDMO0102237
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
IssuedJanuary 9, 2015
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2020
AddressPoplar Bluff, MO 63901
Receiving waterBlack River
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedLittle Hunting Slough-Black River (HUC 110100070805)
SIC4011 – Railroads, Line-Haul Operating
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler MO0000064287

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
Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons - Gasoline110
Solids, total suspended010
pH200
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]100
Solids, settleable100
Oil and grease [soxhlet extr.] tot.100
Oil petroleum, total recoverable100
Rainfall100
Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons - Diesel100
Storm water flow100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MO0102237.

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
November 29, 2021Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6

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.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act NPDES permit MO0102237 held by Union Pacific Railroad for its Poplar Bluff yard in Poplar Bluff, MO, which discharges to the Black River and is listed as administratively continued. The page lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.