Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AR0033979

CORNING, CITY OF - CORNING WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, Corning, AR: NPDES AR0033979 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CORNING, CITY OF - CORNING WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, held by CORNING, CITY OF, holds NPDES permit AR0033979, which discharges to Black R,White R. EPA’s file records it issued March 28, 2019 and expiring March 31, 2024. 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	CORNING, CITY OF - CORNING WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
Permittee as filed	CORNING, CITY OF
NPDES ID	AR0033979
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	March 28, 2019
Expiration date	March 31, 2024
Address	Corning, AR 72422
Receiving water	BLACK R,WHITE R
Subwatershed	Little River-Black River (HUC 110100071003)
Program components on file	POTW, Pretreatment
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

14Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
14With a violation of any kind
4With 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
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	48	22	November 30, 2021	97% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	3	72	3	May 31, 2017	1,476% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	4	49	3	May 31, 2023	58% over the limit
pH	2	47	1	May 31, 1999
Solids, total suspended	3	72	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	48	0
Overflows	1	25	0
Overflow volume [SS0 volume, CSO volume]	1	24	0
Low Flow Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Daphnia pulex	0	23	0
LF Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Pimephales promelas	0	23	0
NOAEC Lethal Statis Renewal 48 Hr Acute Daphnia pulex	0	22	0
NOAEC Lethal Static Renewal 48Hr acute Pimephales promelas	0	22	0
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 48Hr Acute D. pulex	0	22	0
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Pimephales promelas	0	22	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 AR0033979.

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 NPDES discharge permit AR0033979 held by CORNING, CITY OF for the CORNING, CITY OF - CORNING WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT in Corning, AR, which is listed as administratively continued with a Minor discharger class. The page lists 8 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and the permit's Issued date is March 28, 2019 with an expiration date of March 31, 2024.