Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES SD0000078
SMITHFIELD FOODS, Sioux Falls, SD: NPDES SD0000078 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MajorDischarger class
- 15Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 8Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
SMITHFIELD FOODS, held by John Morrell & Company, holds NPDES permit SD0000078, which discharges to Big Sioux River. EPA’s file records it issued March 29, 2000 and expiring March 31, 2005. 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 | SMITHFIELD FOODS |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | John Morrell & Company |
| NPDES ID | SD0000078 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Individual permit |
| Discharger class | Major discharger |
| Facility type | Not a publicly owned treatment works |
| Issued | March 29, 2000 |
| Expiration date | March 31, 2005 |
| Issuing agency | SDDENR |
| Address | Sioux Falls, SD 57103 |
| Receiving water | BIG SIOUX RIVER |
| Receiving water impaired | 303(D) Listed |
| Subwatershed | Falls of the Big Sioux River (HUC 101702031203) |
| NAICS | 311611 – Animal [Except Poultry] Slaughtering |
| SIC | 2011 – Meat Packing Plants |
| Other EPA IDs (FRS) | RCRA handler SDD982649717; ICIS-AIR source SD0000004609900009 |
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
- 16Pollutants on file
- 15Under a numeric limit
- 10With a violation of any kind
- 8With 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform, fecal general | 4 | 27 | 27 | July 31, 2019 | 353,300% over the limit |
| Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N] | 10 | 19 | 19 | July 31, 2019 | 2,056% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 4 | 13 | 13 | December 31, 2020 | 1,343% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C | 10 | 8 | 8 | November 30, 2022 | 99,999% over the limit |
| Chlorine, total residual | 1 | 8 | 8 | January 31, 2010 | 3,742% over the limit |
| pH | 2 | 5 | 5 | December 31, 2022 | |
| Toxicity [chronic], Ceriodaphnia dubia | 0 | 2 | 2 | December 31, 2020 | 25% over the limit |
| Oil and grease | 3 | 1 | 1 | April 30, 2003 | 70% over the limit |
| BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C] | 2 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Temperature, water deg. centigrade | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Oxygen, dissolved [DO] | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| IC25 Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| IC25 Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Chrpimephales | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Flow rate | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Oil and grease visual | 1 | 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 SD0000078.
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.