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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ING340080

BUCKEYE TERMINALS LLC EAST CHICAGO TERMINAL, East Chicago, IN: NPDES ING340080 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BUCKEYE TERMINALS LLC EAST CHICAGO TERMINAL, held by Buckeye Terminals LLC East Chicago Terminal, holds NPDES permit ING340080. EPA’s file records it issued September 26, 2024 and expiring October 31, 2025. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

What the register holds for BUCKEYE TERMINALS LLC EAST CHICAGO TERMINAL: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in East Chicago, Indiana, and 16 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES ING340080.

Identity

Facility as filedBUCKEYE TERMINALS LLC EAST CHICAGO TERMINAL
Permittee as filedBuckeye Terminals LLC East Chicago Terminal
NPDES IDING340080
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 26, 2024
Expiration dateOctober 31, 2025
Issuing agencyIDEM
AddressEast Chicago, IN 46312
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedCalumet River-Frontal Lake Michigan (HUC 040400010603)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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
pH1200
Solids, total suspended1200
Oil and grease, hexane extr method1200
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant1200
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]800
Lead, total recoverable800
Benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, xylene combination800
Benzene800
Naphthalene800
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]800
Chlorine, total residual600
Flow, total600
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]400
Cyanide, total [as CN]400
Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons [PAHs]400
Volatile compounds, [GC/MS]400

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ING340080.

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES ING340080.

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 15, 2026.