Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES OR0000850

BOISE - MEDFORD PLYWOOD, Medford, OR: NPDES OR0000850 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BOISE - MEDFORD PLYWOOD, held by BOISE CASCADE WOOD PRODUCTS, L.L.C., holds NPDES permit OR0000850, which discharges to Elk Creek, Mingus Creek. EPA’s file records it issued December 30, 2005 and expiring November 30, 2010. 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	BOISE - MEDFORD PLYWOOD
Permittee as filed	BOISE CASCADE WOOD PRODUCTS, L.L.C.
NPDES ID	OR0000850
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
Issued	December 30, 2005
Expiration date	November 30, 2010
Address	Medford, OR 97501
Receiving water	ELK CREEK, MINGUS CREEK
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Larson Creek-Bear Creek (HUC 171003080110)
SIC	2436 – Softwood Veneer And Plywood
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ORSTATE08216; ICIS-AIR source OR0000004102900004

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

9Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
2With 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
Floating solids, waste or visible foam-visual	2	2	2	March 31, 2026
Debris, floating [severity]	2	1	1	October 31, 2023
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	6	0	0
pH	6	0	0
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	4	0	0
Flow rate	3	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	3	0	0
Solids, total suspended	2	0	0
Oil & Grease	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 OR0000850.

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 the Clean Water Act NPDES permit OR0000850 for BOISE - MEDFORD PLYWOOD in Medford, OR, held by BOISE CASCADE WOOD PRODUCTS, L.L.C., with its status listed as administratively continued and its discharges directed to Elk Creek and Mingus Creek. The facts list 2 pollutants under a numeric limit and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and the permit is classed as a minor discharger.