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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES OR0000515

IP SPRINGFIELD PAPER MILL, Springfield, OR: NPDES OR0000515 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

IP SPRINGFIELD PAPER MILL, held by INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY, holds NPDES permit OR0000515, which discharges to Mckenzie River. EPA’s file records it issued May 3, 1993 and expiring March 31, 1998. 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 filedIP SPRINGFIELD PAPER MILL
Permittee as filedINTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY
NPDES IDOR0000515
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedMay 3, 1993
Expiration dateMarch 31, 1998
AddressSpringfield, OR 97478
Receiving waterMCKENZIE RIVER
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedWalterville Canal-McKenzie River (HUC 170900040706)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler ORD096249081; ICIS-AIR source ORLRA0004103908850

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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
pH6357June 30, 2010
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant73135August 31, 2003667% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C482November 30, 201429% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit7320
Turbidity2100
Streamflow180
Solids, total suspended460
Total production - mass260
Color [PT-CO units]130
Phosphorus, total [as P]130
Report due [yrmoda]200
Bioassay [96 hr.]100

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
December 9, 2024Management Practice Violations - Best Management Practice DeficienciesST6
January 1, 2018Monitoring Violations - Analysis not ConductedST6

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.

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What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit OR0000515 for IP SPRINGFIELD PAPER MILL in Springfield, OR, held by International Paper Company and discharging to the Mckenzie River, with the permit listed as administratively continued. The page reports a discharger class of Major, 3 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 12 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit issued May 3, 1993 and expiring March 31, 1998.