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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES INP000698

INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY -LEBANON, Lebanon, IN: NPDES INP000698 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY -LEBANON, held by DS SMITH PACKAGING - LEBANON LLC, holds NPDES permit INP000698, which discharges to Lebanon Potw To Prairie Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 24, 2019 and expiring September 30, 2024. 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 filedINTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY -LEBANON
Permittee as filedDS SMITH PACKAGING - LEBANON LLC
NPDES IDINP000698
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual industrial user permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 24, 2019
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2024
Issuing agencyIDEM
AddressLebanon, IN 46052
Receiving waterLEBANON POTW TO PRAIRIE CREEK

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
pH242May 31, 2022
Copper, total recoverable231July 31, 20261,150% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant230
Solids, total suspended220
Oil and grease, hexane extr method220
Nickel, total recoverable220
Zinc, total recoverable220
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]220
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]220

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 INP000698.

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.