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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MO0138053

COMMERCIAL METALS COMPANY, Springfield, MO: NPDES MO0138053 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

COMMERCIAL METALS COMPANY, held by Commercial Metals Company, holds NPDES permit MO0138053, which discharges to Tributary To Jordan Cr.. EPA’s file records it issued November 4, 2016 and expiring December 31, 2020. 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 filedCOMMERCIAL METALS COMPANY
Permittee as filedCommercial Metals Company
NPDES IDMO0138053
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
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedNovember 4, 2016
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2020
AddressSpringfield, MO 65805
Receiving waterTributary to Jordan Cr.
SubwatershedHeadwaters Wilsons Creek (HUC 110100020301)

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
Copper, total recoverable641June 30, 2020199% over the limit
pH660
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]340
Nickel, total recoverable340
Silver total recoverable340
Aluminum, total recoverable340
Chromium, hexavalent dissolved [as Cr]340
Chromium, trivalent total recoverable340
Solids, total suspended330
Oil and grease [soxhlet extr.] tot.330
Iron, total recoverable330
Zinc, total recoverable330
Lead, total recoverable330
Chemical oxygen demand [COD]330
Storm water flow330
Rainfall300

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
April 19, 2021Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
April 19, 2021Reporting Violations - Improper/ Incorrect ReportingST6

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.