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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0128511

SANDERSON FARMS WACO PROCESSING DIVISION, Waco, TX: NPDES TX0128511 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SANDERSON FARMS WACO PROCESSING DIVISION, held by SANDERSON FARMS, INC., holds NPDES permit TX0128511, which discharges to Tehuacana Creek; Brazos River. EPA’s file records it issued October 25, 2016 and expiring December 1, 2020. 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 filedSANDERSON FARMS WACO PROCESSING DIVISION
Permittee as filedSANDERSON FARMS, INC.
NPDES IDTX0128511
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedOctober 25, 2016
Expiration dateDecember 1, 2020
AddressWaco, TX 76705
Receiving waterTEHUACANA CREEK; BRAZOS RIVER
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedLittle Tehuacana Creek-Tehuacana Creek (HUC 120602020706)
SIC2015 – Poultry Slaughtering And Processing

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

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
Coliform, fecal general277June 30, 2013400% over the limit
Solids, total suspended4435July 31, 202540% over the limit
Nitrogen, total [as N]4231May 31, 20182% over the limit
E. coli281June 30, 2021107% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]4540
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]4400
Oil & Grease0360
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant2200
Solids, total dissolved050
Oil and grease, hexane extr method410
Chlorine, total residual110
pH200
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]100
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]100
Phosphorus, total [as P]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
November 9, 2017Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit TX0128511, held by SANDERSON FARMS, INC. for the SANDERSON FARMS WACO PROCESSING DIVISION in Waco, TX, which discharges to Tehuacana Creek and the Brazos River. The permit is listed as administratively continued and a minor discharger, with 4 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. The subwatershed is Little Tehuacana Creek-Tehuacana Creek (HUC 120602020706).