Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0129488

HOUSTON STEEL DRUM PLANT, La Porte, TX: NPDES TX0129488 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

HOUSTON STEEL DRUM PLANT, held by GREIF PACKAGING LLC, holds NPDES permit TX0129488, which discharges to Hcfcd F-103-00-00;San Jacinto Bay. EPA’s file records it issued December 3, 2018 and expiring December 3, 2023. 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	HOUSTON STEEL DRUM PLANT
Permittee as filed	GREIF PACKAGING LLC
NPDES ID	TX0129488
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 3, 2018
Expiration date	December 3, 2023
Address	La Porte, TX 77571
Receiving water	HCFCD F-103-00-00;SAN JACINTO BAY
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Goose Creek-Frontal Galveston Bay (HUC 120401040706)
SIC	3412 – Metal Barrels, Drums, And Pails
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler TXD037770302; ICIS-AIR source TX0000004820101617

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

8Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
8With a violation of any kind
1With 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
Copper, total [as Cu]	4	2	2	February 28, 2022	712% over the limit
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]	1	95	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	94	0
Chloride [as Cl]	1	94	0
Sulfate, total [as SO4]	1	93	0
pH	2	92	0
Oil & Grease	2	92	0
Solids, total dissolved	1	92	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 TX0129488.

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 register page covers NPDES permit TX0129488 for HOUSTON STEEL DRUM PLANT in La Porte, TX, held by GREIF PACKAGING LLC, with its permit status shown as administratively continued and its discharger class as minor. The page lists 8 as the discharger class, 1 pollutant under a numeric limit, and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance, with the permit file dated December 3, 2018 and December 3, 2023.