Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AR0035939

SPARKMAN, CITY OF, Sparkman, AR: NPDES AR0035939 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
10Pollutants under a numeric limit
6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SPARKMAN, CITY OF holds NPDES permit AR0035939, which discharges to Cypress Cr Trib,Ouachita R. EPA’s file records it issued August 12, 2015 and expiring August 31, 2020. 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	SPARKMAN, CITY OF
Permittee as filed	SPARKMAN, CITY OF
NPDES ID	AR0035939
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	August 12, 2015
Expiration date	August 31, 2020
Address	Sparkman, AR 71763
Receiving water	CYPRESS CR TRIB,OUACHITA R
Subwatershed	Lower Cypress Creek-Ouachita River (HUC 080401020607)
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

10Pollutants on file
10Under a numeric limit
10With a violation of any kind
6With 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
Coliform, fecal general	2	48	28	August 31, 2023	99,999% over the limit
pH	2	45	25	February 28, 2026
Solids, total suspended	6	48	17	September 30, 2019	833% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	3	31	13	March 31, 2018	733% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	3	22	10	July 31, 2019	524% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	3	16	4	June 30, 2019	197% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	12	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	9	0
Overflows	1	6	0
Overflow volume [SS0 volume, CSO volume]	1	6	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 AR0035939.

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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Nearby on the register

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

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES AR0035939, held by SPARKMAN, CITY OF in Sparkman, AR, for a publicly owned treatment works that discharges to CYPRESS CR TRIB,OUACHITA R within the Lower Cypress Creek-Ouachita River subwatershed (HUC 080401020607). The page lists the permit as administratively continued, a Minor Discharger class, with 6 pollutants under a numeric limit and 6 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.