Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AR0052451

PECO FOODS, INC.-POCAHONTAS, Pocahontas, AR: NPDES AR0052451 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
18Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

PECO FOODS, INC.-POCAHONTAS holds NPDES permit AR0052451, which discharges to Black R,White R. EPA’s file records it issued February 3, 2016 and expiring February 28, 2021. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	PECO FOODS, INC.-POCAHONTAS
Permittee as filed	PECO FOODS, INC.-POCAHONTAS
NPDES ID	AR0052451
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	February 3, 2016
Expiration date	February 28, 2021
Address	Pocahontas, AR 72455
Receiving water	BLACK R,WHITE R
Subwatershed	Mill Creek-Black River (HUC 110100090201)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ARR000033183; ICIS-AIR source AR0000000512101017

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

18Pollutants on file
18Under a numeric limit
18With a violation of any kind
4With 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
Coliform, fecal general	4	38	28	July 31, 2026	2,269% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	32	16	March 31, 2025	353% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	31	15	July 31, 2021	101% over the limit
Oil & Grease	4	17	1	November 30, 2016	114% over the limit
Solids, total dissolved	4	20	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	16	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	4	16	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	4	16	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	4	16	0
Low Flow Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Daphnia pulex	1	11	0
LF Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Pimephales promelas	1	11	0
NOAEC Lethal Statis Renewal 48 Hr Acute Daphnia pulex	1	11	0
NOAEC Lethal Static Renewal 48Hr acute Pimephales promelas	1	11	0
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 48Hr Acute D. pulex	1	11	0
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Pimephales promelas	1	11	0
pH	2	8	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	8	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	4	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 AR0052451.

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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This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES AR0052451 for PECO FOODS, INC.-POCAHONTAS in Pocahontas, AR, which is administratively continued and classed as a minor discharger, with 18 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. The permit discharges to Black R,White R within the Mill Creek-Black River subwatershed (HUC 110100090201), and the status and dates reflect EPA's permit file as loaded on September 15, 2026.