Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AR0037796

GURDON PLYWOOD AND LUMBER COMPLEX, Gurdon, AR: NPDES AR0037796 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
11Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

GURDON PLYWOOD AND LUMBER COMPLEX, held by GEORGIA-PACIFIC WOOD PRODUCTS SOUTH LLC - GURDON PLYWOOD-LUMBER COMPLEX, holds NPDES permit AR0037796, which discharges to Trib,Caney Cr,Terre Noire Cr,Ltl Mo R,Ouachita R. EPA’s file records it issued October 28, 2019 and expiring October 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	GURDON PLYWOOD AND LUMBER COMPLEX
Permittee as filed	GEORGIA-PACIFIC WOOD PRODUCTS SOUTH LLC - GURDON PLYWOOD-LUMBER COMPLEX
NPDES ID	AR0037796
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	October 28, 2019
Expiration date	October 31, 2024
Address	Gurdon, AR 71743
Receiving water	TRIB,CANEY CR,TERRE NOIRE CR,LTL MO R,OUACHITA R
Subwatershed	Caney Creek-Terre Noire Creek (HUC 080401030807)
NAICS	321212 – Softwood Veneer and Plywood Manufacturing
SIC	2436 – Softwood Veneer And Plywood
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ARD983267329; ICIS-AIR source AR0000000501900005

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

12Pollutants on file
11Under a numeric limit
9With 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
Oil & Grease	2	8	4	June 30, 2018	629% over the limit
pH	2	7	2	September 30, 2007
Solids, total suspended	4	11	1	March 31, 2007	16% over the limit
Discharge flow as % of stream flow	4	1	1	February 29, 2024	116% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	8	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	6	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	1	5	0
Debris, floating [severity]	1	2	0
Discharge event observation [Visual Monitoring]	0	1	0
Stream flow, instantaneous	2	0	0
Flow rate, deck drainage	2	0	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	0	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 AR0037796.

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 Clean Water Act NPDES permit AR0037796 for the Gurdon Plywood and Lumber Complex in Gurdon, AR, held by Georgia-Pacific Wood Products South LLC, which is administratively continued with a minor discharger class. The permit lists 11 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit's issue and expiration dates as recorded in EPA's file.