Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NE0133175

MARS PETCARE US, INC. D.B.A. THE IAMS COMPANY, Aurora, NE: NPDES NE0133175 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
5Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

MARS PETCARE US, INC. D.B.A. THE IAMS COMPANY, held by Mars Petcare US, Inc. d.b.a. The Iams Company, holds NPDES permit NE0133175, which discharges to Lincoln Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 15, 2020 and expiring September 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	MARS PETCARE US, INC. D.B.A. THE IAMS COMPANY
Permittee as filed	Mars Petcare US, Inc. d.b.a. The Iams Company
NPDES ID	NE0133175
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual industrial user permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	September 15, 2020
Expiration date	September 30, 2025
Issuing agency	DWEE
Address	Aurora, NE 68818
Receiving water	Lincoln Creek
SIC	2047 – Dog And Cat Food
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler NED122124522; ICIS-AIR source NE0000003108100014

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

5Pollutants on file
5Under a numeric limit
5With a violation of any kind
1With 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
Solids, total suspended	2	33	3	February 28, 2009	187% over the limit
pH	2	33	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	30	0
Oil and grease, hexane extr method	2	30	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	30	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

1Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
September 28, 2021	Monitoring Violations - Analysis not Conducted	ST6

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 NPDES permit NE0133175, held by Mars Petcare US, Inc. d.b.a. The Iams Company in Aurora, NE, which discharges to Lincoln Creek and is administratively continued as a minor discharger. The page lists one pollutant under a numeric limit and one pollutant with an effluent exceedance.