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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES PA0044741

HANOVER FOODS CORP, Hanover, PA: NPDES PA0044741 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

HANOVER FOODS CORP, held by Hanover Foods Corporation, holds NPDES permit PA0044741, which discharges to Oil Creek In Watershed 7-H. EPA’s file records it issued March 15, 2000 and expiring April 1, 2005. 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 filedHANOVER FOODS CORP
Permittee as filedHanover Foods Corporation
NPDES IDPA0044741
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
IssuedMarch 15, 2000
Expiration dateApril 1, 2005
AddressHanover, PA 17331
Receiving waterOIL CREEK IN WATERSHED 7-H
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedOil Creek (HUC 020503060702)

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
Solids, total suspended4114100June 30, 2024427% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]67967March 31, 20211,456% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]45046June 30, 2021410% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit13129December 31, 202487% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]11817July 31, 202472% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general1119February 28, 20215,100% over the limit
pH4188May 31, 2017
Phosphorus, total [as P]2164October 31, 201771% over the limit
Cadmium, total [as Cd]062October 31, 201761% over the limit
Phosphorus, Total031September 30, 201875% over the limit
Oil & Grease2120
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]280
Iron, dissolved [as Fe]280
Iron, total [as Fe]080
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant220
Chlorine, total residual220
Nitrogen, Total020
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]210
Color [PT-CO units]010
Nitrogen, total [as N]010
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]010
Nitrogen, Ammonia Total010
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl Total010
Nitrite Plus Nitrate Total010

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
June 15, 2026Permit Violations - Discharge Without a Valid PermitST6
June 15, 2026Reporting Violations - Failure to NotifyST6
June 23, 2025Permit Violations - Discharge Without a Valid PermitST6
June 23, 2025Effluent Violations - Numeric effluent violationST6
December 13, 2023Permit Violations - Discharge Without a Valid PermitST6
November 28, 2023Permit Violations - Discharge Without a Valid PermitST6
January 18, 2023Permit Violations - Discharge Without a Valid PermitST6
January 17, 2023Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
January 17, 2023Permit Violations - Discharge Without a Valid PermitST6
January 9, 2023Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
January 9, 2023Permit Violations - Discharge Without a Valid PermitST6
October 17, 2022Permit Violations - Discharge Without a Valid PermitST6
October 25, 2021Permit Violations - Discharge Without a Valid PermitST6
February 4, 2021Management Practice Violations - Improper Operation and MaintenanceST6
February 4, 2021Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
December 29, 2020Effluent Violations - Numeric effluent violationST6
July 9, 2020Management Practice Violations - Improper Operation and MaintenanceST6
May 1, 2020Permit Violations - Failure to Submit Timely Permit Renewal ApplicationST6
April 18, 2019Management Practice Violations - Improper Operation and MaintenanceST6

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.