Velarion Records
Follow this permit Velarion Records emails you this permit’s record, cited to the public filing, and tells you when the register changes it. Free.
We’ll email you a link to confirm. The continuous daily watch on every change is the paid alert. Unsubscribe any time.
Also free: The Pay Desk, the weekly executive pay briefing.

Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AR0021547

HUGHES, CITY OF - SEWAGE TREATMENT FACILITY, Hughes, AR: NPDES AR0021547 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

HUGHES, CITY OF - SEWAGE TREATMENT FACILITY, held by HUGHES, CITY OF, holds NPDES permit AR0021547, which discharges to Crooked Bu,Millseed Lk,Frenchman'S Bu,Blackfish Bu. EPA’s file records it issued October 31, 2018 and expiring November 30, 2023. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (October 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedHUGHES, CITY OF - SEWAGE TREATMENT FACILITY
Permittee as filedHUGHES, CITY OF
NPDES IDAR0021547
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedOctober 31, 2018
Expiration dateNovember 30, 2023
AddressHughes, AR 72348
Receiving waterCrooked BU,Millseed Lk,Frenchman's BU,Blackfish BU
SubwatershedFrenchman Bayou (HUC 080202031505)
NAICS221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC4952 – Sewerage Systems

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same 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 suspended317997November 30, 20251,936% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]15225November 30, 202560% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general26915October 31, 202299,999% over the limit
pH2617April 30, 2025
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]9865September 30, 201085% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]3861June 30, 202426% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant2560
Overflow volume [SS0 volume, CSO volume]1190
Overflows1180
Chlorine, total residual010

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 AR0021547.

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.

Watch this permit

One permit holder, $99/month. Watch the register for one permit holder and the places and receiving waters tied to its permits. Choose “One permit holder” and enter this permit’s NPDES ID, AR0021547.

Start the watch

How often?
  • One permit holder — $99/month
  • One watershed — $2,990/year
  • One state — $4,990/year
  • The whole register — $18,000/year

How we handle your data → Privacy

EPA publishes a free Detailed Facility Report for every permit on ECHO: its compliance status quarter by quarter, its inspections, and its enforcement actions and penalties. EPA also sends free notices of new inspections and enforcement actions through ECHO Notify; enter NPDES ID AR0021547 there.

Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

What this page shows

This page covers NPDES permit AR0021547, held by HUGHES, CITY OF for its SEWAGE TREATMENT FACILITY in Hughes, AR, which is classed as a Minor discharger and is administratively continued. The permit lists 6 pollutants with an effluent exceedance and 9 pollutants under a numeric limit, with the watershed code 080202031505.