Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IN0038016

MERIDIAN FOODS, INC., Eaton, IN: NPDES IN0038016 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
10Pollutants under a numeric limit
7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

MERIDIAN FOODS, INC. holds NPDES permit IN0038016, which discharges to Mississinewa R Via Unnamed Ditch. EPA’s file records it issued October 12, 2018 and expiring November 30, 2023. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	MERIDIAN FOODS, INC.
Permittee as filed	MERIDIAN FOODS, INC.
NPDES ID	IN0038016
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	October 12, 2018
Expiration date	November 30, 2023
Issuing agency	IDEM
Address	Eaton, IN 47338
Receiving water	MISSISSINEWA R VIA UNNAMED DITCH
Subwatershed	Holden Ditch-Mississinewa River (HUC 051201030404)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

11Pollutants on file
10Under a numeric limit
11With a violation of any kind
7With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	8	227	89	May 31, 2026	1,540% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	8	207	67	April 30, 2026	726% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	8	168	28	February 28, 2026	133% over the limit
pH	2	38	20	September 30, 2025
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	14	19	12	May 31, 2009	85% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	2	9	3	September 30, 2015	317% over the limit
Oil & Grease	0	9	2	April 30, 2008	45% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]	4	244	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	18	0
Flow, total	1	3	0
Oil and grease, hexane extr method	1	2	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 IN0038016.

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 September 14, 2026.