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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0005762

INEOS ACETYLS CHEMICAL TEXAS CITY, Texas City, TX: NPDES TX0005762 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

INEOS ACETYLS CHEMICAL TEXAS CITY, held by INEOS ACETYLS CHEMICALS TEXAS CITY INC, holds NPDES permit TX0005762, which discharges to Texas City Ship Channel. EPA’s file records it issued October 16, 2019 and expiring October 16, 2024. 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 filedINEOS ACETYLS CHEMICAL TEXAS CITY
Permittee as filedINEOS ACETYLS CHEMICALS TEXAS CITY INC
NPDES IDTX0005762
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedOctober 16, 2019
Expiration dateOctober 16, 2024
AddressTexas City, TX 77590
Receiving waterTEXAS CITY SHIP CHANNEL
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedDickinson Bayou (HUC 120402040200)

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; the 60 with the most exceedances of 84 are shown.

Pollutant or measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Ethylbenzene6978July 31, 2007930% over the limit
pH6628June 30, 2025
Benzene6925July 31, 20072,544% over the limit
Styrene4754July 31, 20071,516% over the limit
Toluene6842October 31, 2006313% over the limit
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]2142July 31, 2022156% over the limit
Oil & Grease4331November 30, 20128% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant6520
Chlorine, free available0370
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit0300
Copper, total [as Cu]0260
Cyanide, free [amenable to chlorination]0180
Hexachlorobenzene460
Carbon tetrachloride260
Chloroform260
Acenaphthylene260
Acenaphthene260
Acrylonitrile260
Anthracene260
Benzo[k]fluoranthene260
Benzo[a]pyrene260
Chlorobenzene260
Chrysene260
Diethyl phthalate260
Dimethyl phthalate260
Fluoranthene260
Fluorene260
Hexachlorobutadiene260
Hexachloroethane260
Methyl chloride [Chloromethane]260
Methylene chloride260
Nitrobenzene260
Phenanthrene260
Pyrene260
Tetrachloroethylene260
1,1-Dichloroethane260
1,1-Dichloroethylene260
1,1,1-Trichloroethane260
1,1,2-Trichloroethane260
Benzo[a]anthracene260
1,2-Dichloroethane, total weight260
1,2-Dichlorobenzene260
1,2-Dichloropropane260
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene260
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene260
1,3-Dichlorobenzene260
1,4-Dichlorobenzene260
2-Chlorophenol260
2-Nitrophenol260
2,4-Dimethylphenol260
2,4-Dinitrotoluene260
2,4-Dinitrophenol260
2,6-Dinitrotoluene260
4-Nitrophenol260
4,6-Dinitro-o-cresol260
Phenol260
Naphthalene260
Di[2-ethylhexyl] phthalate [DEHP]260
Di-n-butyl phthalate260
Vinyl chloride260

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
December 8, 2021Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6

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.