Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AR0047139

RAY WHITE LUMBER COMPANY, Sparkman, AR: NPDES AR0047139 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
7Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

RAY WHITE LUMBER COMPANY, held by RAY WHITE LUMBER CO, holds NPDES permit AR0047139, which discharges to Trib,Cyprus Cr,Ouachita R. EPA’s file records it issued September 26, 2014 and expiring September 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	RAY WHITE LUMBER COMPANY
Permittee as filed	RAY WHITE LUMBER CO
NPDES ID	AR0047139
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	September 26, 2014
Expiration date	September 30, 2019
Address	Sparkman, AR 71763
Receiving water	TRIB,CYPRUS CR,OUACHITA R
Subwatershed	Lower Cypress Creek-Ouachita River (HUC 080401020607)
NAICS	321113 – Sawmills
SIC	2421 – Sawmills And Planing Mills, General
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	ICIS-AIR source AR0000000503900058

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

7Pollutants on file
7Under a numeric limit
7With a violation of any kind
1With 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 demand, chem. [low level] [COD]	2	52	6	March 31, 2009	64% over the limit
pH	2	46	0
Solids, total suspended	2	46	0
Oil & Grease	2	46	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	46	0
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	1	23	0
Debris, floating [severity]	1	23	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 AR0047139.

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 NPDES discharge permit AR0047139, held by RAY WHITE LUMBER COMPANY in Sparkman, AR, and discharging to TRIB,CYPRUS CR,OUACHITA R within the Lower Cypress Creek-Ouachita River subwatershed (HUC 080401020607). The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a Minor Discharger class, 1 pollutant under a numeric limit, and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance.