Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AR0037770
BASF CORPORATION, West Memphis, AR: NPDES AR0037770 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MajorDischarger class
- 76Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 12Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
BASF CORPORATION holds NPDES permit AR0037770, which discharges to Mississippi R. EPA’s file records it issued June 2, 2015 and expiring June 30, 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 | BASF CORPORATION |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | BASF CORPORATION |
| NPDES ID | AR0037770 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Individual permit |
| Discharger class | Major discharger |
| Facility type | Not a publicly owned treatment works |
| Issued | June 2, 2015 |
| Expiration date | June 30, 2020 |
| Address | West Memphis, AR 72301 |
| Receiving water | MISSISSIPPI R |
| Receiving water impaired | 303(D) Listed |
| Subwatershed | Loosahatchie Bar-Mississippi River (HUC 080101000703) |
| NAICS | 325199 – All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing |
| SIC | 2869 – Industrial Organic Chemicals |
| Other EPA IDs (FRS) | RCRA handler ARD093792067 |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 85Pollutants on file
- 76Under a numeric limit
- 84With a violation of any kind
- 12With 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; the 60 with the most exceedances of 85 are shown.
| Pollutant or measure | Limits | Violations, any kind | Effluent exceedances | Latest exceedance | Largest exceedance, as filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C | 8 | 25 | 13 | May 31, 2021 | 99,999% over the limit |
| Coliform, fecal general | 8 | 15 | 11 | September 30, 2025 | 99,999% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 12 | 16 | 5 | July 31, 1996 | 576% over the limit |
| Toluene | 8 | 15 | 3 | December 31, 2021 | 5,377% over the limit |
| pH | 6 | 11 | 3 | December 31, 2024 | |
| Phenol | 8 | 10 | 2 | June 30, 2009 | 39% over the limit |
| Dimethyl phthalate | 8 | 13 | 1 | June 30, 2009 | 27% over the limit |
| Acrylonitrile | 8 | 9 | 1 | March 31, 2017 | 52% over the limit |
| 2,4-Dimethylphenol | 8 | 9 | 1 | June 30, 2009 | 25% over the limit |
| 2,4-Dinitrophenol | 8 | 9 | 1 | March 31, 1998 | 7% over the limit |
| 4-Nitrophenol | 8 | 9 | 1 | June 30, 2009 | 18% over the limit |
| Hexachlorobenzene | 8 | 9 | 1 | June 30, 2009 | 25% over the limit |
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 6 | 14 | 0 | ||
| Carbon tetrachloride | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Chloroform | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Benzene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Acenaphthylene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Acenaphthene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Anthracene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Benzo[k]fluoranthene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Benzo[a]pyrene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Chlorobenzene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Chloroethane, total weight | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Chrysene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Diethyl phthalate | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Ethylbenzene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Fluoranthene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Fluorene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Hexachlorobutadiene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Hexachloroethane | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Methyl chloride [Chloromethane] | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Nitrobenzene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Phenanthrene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Pyrene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Tetrachloroethylene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1,1-Dichloroethane | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Benzo[a]anthracene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1,2-Dichloroethane, total weight | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1,2-Dichlorobenzene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1,3-Dichlorobenzene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1,4-Dichlorobenzene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 2-Chlorophenol | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 2-Nitrophenol | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 2,4-Dichlorophenol | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 2,4-Dinitrotoluene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 2,6-Dinitrotoluene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Naphthalene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Di[2-ethylhexyl] phthalate [DEHP] | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Di-n-butyl phthalate | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Vinyl chloride | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Trichloroethylene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1,3-Dichloropropylene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 3,4-Benzofluoranthene | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Methylene chloride, suspended | 4 | 8 | 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 AR0037770.
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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