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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NE0114626

NUCOR: VULCRAFT/COLD FINISH NE, Norfolk, NE: NPDES NE0114626 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

NUCOR: VULCRAFT/COLD FINISH NE, held by NUCOR:VULCRAFT/COLD FINISH NE, holds NPDES permit NE0114626, which discharges to Elkhorn River Basin. EPA’s file records it issued December 31, 2020 and expiring December 31, 2025. 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 filedNUCOR: VULCRAFT/COLD FINISH NE
Permittee as filedNUCOR:VULCRAFT/COLD FINISH NE
NPDES IDNE0114626
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
IssuedDecember 31, 2020
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2025
Issuing agencyDWEE
AddressNorfolk, NE 68701
Receiving waterElkhorn River Basin

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
Zinc, total [as Zn]41610October 31, 202510,519% over the limit
Chromium, total [as Cr]4115November 30, 199555,456% over the limit
Copper, total [as Cu]473December 31, 19904,603% over the limit
Cyanide, total [as CN]462December 31, 199098,274% over the limit
pH231December 31, 1993
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant220
Phosphate, total [as PO4]400

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 NE0114626.

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.