Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AR0043486

TRI-CITY UTILITIES, INC., O'Kean, AR: NPDES AR0043486 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
11Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

TRI-CITY UTILITIES, INC. holds NPDES permit AR0043486, which discharges to Trib,Beaver Dam Dit,Cache R,White R. EPA’s file records it issued April 25, 2014 and expiring April 30, 2019. 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	TRI-CITY UTILITIES, INC.
Permittee as filed	TRI-CITY UTILITIES, INC.
NPDES ID	AR0043486
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	April 25, 2014
Expiration date	April 30, 2019
Address	O'Kean, AR 72449
Receiving water	TRIB,BEAVER DAM DIT,CACHE R,WHITE R
Subwatershed	Beaver Dam Ditch (HUC 080203020207)
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

11Pollutants on file
11Under a numeric limit
11With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	9	238	193	July 31, 2026	1,874% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	60	28	April 30, 2021	1,960% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	2	43	28	July 31, 2026	59% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	6	71	23	July 31, 2024	249% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	6	75	21	February 28, 2023	257% over the limit
Lead, total recoverable	3	45	0
Solids, total dissolved	3	45	0
pH	2	32	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	30	0
Overflows	1	16	0
Overflow volume [SS0 volume, CSO volume]	1	16	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 AR0043486.

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 NPDES permit AR0043486 held by TRI-CITY UTILITIES, INC. in O'Kean, AR, which is administratively continued and lists 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance across a Minor discharger class with 11 pollutants under a numeric limit. The permit was issued April 25, 2014 and expired April 30, 2019, and the figures reflect EPA's permit file as loaded on October 14, 2026.