Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AR0051616

NORTHEAST ARKANSAS PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY (NEAPWA) - WATER TREATMENT PLANT, Pocahontas, AR: NPDES AR0051616 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
4Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

NORTHEAST ARKANSAS PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY (NEAPWA) - WATER TREATMENT PLANT, held by Northeast Arkansas Public Water Authority - Water Treatment Plant, holds NPDES permit AR0051616, which discharges to Spring R,Black R,White R. EPA’s file records it issued March 28, 2016 and expiring April 30, 2021. 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	NORTHEAST ARKANSAS PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY (NEAPWA) - WATER TREATMENT PLANT
Permittee as filed	Northeast Arkansas Public Water Authority - Water Treatment Plant
NPDES ID	AR0051616
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	March 28, 2016
Expiration date	April 30, 2021
Address	Pocahontas, AR 72455
Receiving water	SPRING R,BLACK R,WHITE R
Subwatershed	Brushy Creek-Spring River (HUC 110100100507)
NAICS	221310 – Water Supply and Irrigation Systems
SIC	4941 – Water Supply

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

4Pollutants on file
4Under a numeric limit
4With 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
Solids, total suspended	4	34	22	May 31, 2024	686% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	1	7	4	March 31, 2024	60% over the limit
pH	2	6	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	6	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 AR0051616.

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 discharge permit AR0051616, held by Northeast Arkansas Public Water Authority - Water Treatment Plant in Pocahontas, AR, and lists its status as administratively continued with a minor discharger class of 4. The page reports 2 pollutants under a numeric limit and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.