Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NJG033146

PENN COLOR INC, Elmwood Park Boro, NJ: NPDES NJG033146 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

PENN COLOR INC holds NPDES permit NJG033146. EPA’s file records it issued February 22, 2019 and expiring March 31, 2024. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	PENN COLOR INC
Permittee as filed	PENN COLOR INC
NPDES ID	NJG033146
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	February 22, 2019
Expiration date	March 31, 2024
Address	Elmwood Park Boro, NJ 07407
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Weasel Brook-Passaic River (HUC 020301030803)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler NJD093846301; ICIS-AIR source NJ0000003400302540

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

8Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
8With a violation of any kind
2With 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
Chlorine produced oxidants	2	7	5	June 30, 2023	540% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	2	4	2	June 30, 2022	6% over the limit
IC25 Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia	1	3	0
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	2	2	0
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]	2	2	0
pH	2	2	0
Hydrocarbons, in H2O, IR, CC14 extractible chromatograph	2	2	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	2	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 NJG033146.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit NJG033146, held by PENN COLOR INC in Elmwood Park Boro, NJ, which EPA's file lists as issued February 22, 2019 and expiring March 31, 2024, with the status administratively continued. The page lists 8 pollutants on file, with 2 pollutants under a numeric limit and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.