Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AR0033715

CARTHAGE, CITY OF - CARTHAGE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, Carthage, AR: NPDES AR0033715 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CARTHAGE, CITY OF - CARTHAGE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, held by Carthage, City of, holds NPDES permit AR0033715, which discharges to Trib Matthews Cr,Moro Cr,Moro Bay,Ouachita R. EPA’s file records it issued December 14, 2018 and expiring December 31, 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 filed	CARTHAGE, CITY OF - CARTHAGE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
Permittee as filed	Carthage, City of
NPDES ID	AR0033715
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	December 14, 2018
Expiration date	December 31, 2023
Address	Carthage, AR 71725
Receiving water	TRIB MATTHEWS CR,MORO CR,MORO BAY,OUACHITA R
Subwatershed	Pickett Creek-Moro Creek (HUC 080402010103)
NAICS	221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC	4952 – 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

9Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
9With a violation of any kind
5With an effluent exceedance

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 measure	Limits	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
pH	2	106	6	July 31, 2023
Solids, total suspended	6	155	5	May 31, 2021	3,775% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	6	155	5	May 31, 2021	11,576% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	9	154	4	November 30, 2014	11,128% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	104	4	November 30, 2004	259% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	100	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	44	0
Overflow volume [SS0 volume, CSO volume]	1	33	0
Overflows	1	32	0

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

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES AR0033715.

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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act NPDES discharge permit AR0033715 held by Carthage, City of for the Carthage Wastewater Treatment Plant in Carthage, AR, which is administratively continued and classed as a minor discharger. The page lists 9 pollutants under a numeric limit and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and the permit's stated issue and expiration dates are December 14, 2018 and December 31, 2023.