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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NE0137987

VALMONT INDUSTRIES, Mccook, NE: NPDES NE0137987 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

VALMONT INDUSTRIES holds NPDES permit NE0137987, which discharges to Republican River. EPA’s file records it issued September 4, 2018 and expiring September 30, 2023. 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 filedVALMONT INDUSTRIES
Permittee as filedVALMONT INDUSTRIES
NPDES IDNE0137987
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 4, 2018
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2023
AddressMccook, NE 69001
Receiving waterREPUBLICAN RIVER

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
Cadmium, total [as Cd]2131September 30, 202043% over the limit
Lead, total [as Pb]2131September 30, 202016% over the limit
Zinc, total [as Zn]2131December 31, 200827% over the limit
Organics, total toxic [TTO]2140
pH2120
Cyanide, total [as CN]2120
Chromium, total [as Cr]2120
Copper, total [as Cu]2120
Nickel, total [as Ni]2120
Silver, total [as Ag]2120
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant2100

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
February 2, 2023Failure to develop, maintain, or get approval of an adequate SWPPP (industrial stormwater)ST6

Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not yet 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.