Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AR0050784

SOUTHSIDE PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY - WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, Independence County, AR: NPDES AR0050784 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SOUTHSIDE PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY - WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, held by SOUTHSIDE PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY, holds NPDES permit AR0050784, which discharges to Caney Cr,Salado Cr,White R. EPA’s file records it issued February 28, 2019 and expiring February 29, 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	SOUTHSIDE PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY - WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
Permittee as filed	SOUTHSIDE PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY
NPDES ID	AR0050784
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	February 28, 2019
Expiration date	February 29, 2024
Address	Independence County, AR 72501
Receiving water	CANEY CR,SALADO CR,WHITE R
Subwatershed	Lower Salado Creek (HUC 110100040703)
Program components on file	POTW, Pretreatment
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
3With a violation of any kind
2With 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	2	1	October 31, 2015	99,999% over the limit
pH	2	1	1	February 28, 2015
Solids, total suspended	3	1	0
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	6	0	0
Coliform, fecal general	4	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	0	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	0	0
Overflows	1	0	0
Overflow volume [SS0 volume, CSO volume]	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 AR0050784.

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 NPDES permit AR0050784, held by SOUTHSIDE PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY for its wastewater treatment plant in Independence County, AR, and discharging to Caney Cr, Salado Cr, and White R. The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a Minor Discharger class, 9 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. EPA's file records issuance on February 28, 2019 and expiration on February 29, 2024.