Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AR0049247

COVE, CITY OF, Cove, AR: NPDES AR0049247 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

COVE, CITY OF holds NPDES permit AR0049247, which discharges to Buffalo Cr,Mountain Fork R,Little R,Red R. EPA’s file records it issued July 25, 2017 and expiring August 31, 2022. 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	COVE, CITY OF
Permittee as filed	COVE, CITY OF
NPDES ID	AR0049247
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	July 25, 2017
Expiration date	August 31, 2022
Address	Cove, AR 71937
Receiving water	BUFFALO CR,MOUNTAIN FORK R,LITTLE R,RED R
Subwatershed	Upper Buffalo Creek (HUC 111401080301)
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

9Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
9With 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
Solids, total suspended	3	33	27	March 31, 2026	393% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	9	13	10	July 31, 2024	102% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	4	10	8	March 31, 2026	99,999% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	3	13	6	January 31, 2023	283% over the limit
pH	2	7	5	November 30, 2023
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	3	6	2	August 31, 2024	13% over the limit
Overflows	1	5	0
Overflow volume [SS0 volume, CSO volume]	1	5	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	2	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 AR0049247.

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 discharge permit NPDES AR0049247, held by COVE, CITY OF in Cove, AR, which is classed as a minor discharger and is administratively continued. The page lists 6 pollutants under a numeric limit and 6 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.