Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MO0129798

TYSON FOODS, INC. - DEXTER PROCESSING PL, Dexter, MO: NPDES MO0129798 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

TYSON FOODS, INC. - DEXTER PROCESSING PL, held by Tyson Foods, Inc., holds NPDES permit MO0129798, which discharges to Tributary To Dexter Creek. EPA’s file records it issued July 1, 2016 and expiring March 31, 2021. 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 FOODS, INC. - DEXTER PROCESSING PL
Permittee as filed	Tyson Foods, Inc.
NPDES ID	MO0129798
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	July 1, 2016
Expiration date	March 31, 2021
Address	Dexter, MO 63841
Receiving water	Tributary to Dexter Creek
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Main Ditch (HUC 080202040502)
NAICS	311615 – Poultry Processing
SIC	2015 – Poultry Slaughtering And Processing
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	ICIS-AIR source MO0000002920700002

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

13Pollutants on file
13Under a numeric limit
3With a violation of any kind
3With 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
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	21	21	March 31, 2016	119% over the limit
pH	4	2	2	December 31, 2018
Oil and grease [soxhlet extr.] tot.	2	1	1	March 31, 2010	3% over the limit
E. coli	4	0	0
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]	2	0	0
Solids, total suspended	2	0	0
Solids, settleable	2	0	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	2	0	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	0	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	0	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	0	0
Rainfall	2	0	0
Storm water flow	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 MO0129798.

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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit MO0129798, held by Tyson Foods, Inc. for TYSON FOODS, INC. - DEXTER PROCESSING PL in Dexter, MO, and lists its administratively continued status, minor discharger class, and an industrial stormwater program. The page reports 3 pollutants under a numeric limit and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit's issue and expiration dates as recorded in EPA's file.