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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MN0050911

HORMEL FOODS CORP, Austin, MN: NPDES MN0050911 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

HORMEL FOODS CORP holds NPDES permit MN0050911, which discharges to Cedar R Via Ss. EPA’s file records it issued January 9, 2008 and expiring December 31, 2012. 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.

Identity

Facility as filedHORMEL FOODS CORP
Permittee as filedHORMEL FOODS CORP
NPDES IDMN0050911
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
IssuedJanuary 9, 2008
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2012
AddressAustin, MN 55912
Receiving waterCEDAR R VIA SS
SubwatershedCity of Austin-Cedar River (HUC 070802010206)

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
Temperature, water deg. centigrade022October 31, 19902% over the limit
Solids, total suspended071October 31, 19907% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant01140
Chlorine, total residual0930
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit0200
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]060
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C060

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 MN0050911.

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.