Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ARG250004

JOHN W. TURK POWER PLANT, Fulton, AR: NPDES ARG250004 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
6Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

JOHN W. TURK POWER PLANT, held by AEP SWEPCO-JOHN W TURK POWER PLANT, holds NPDES permit ARG250004, which discharges to Bridge Cr,Red R. EPA’s file records it issued May 22, 2009 and expiring November 30, 2012. 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	JOHN W. TURK POWER PLANT
Permittee as filed	AEP SWEPCO-JOHN W TURK POWER PLANT
NPDES ID	ARG250004
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	May 22, 2009
Expiration date	November 30, 2012
Address	Fulton, AR 71838
Receiving water	BRIDGE CR,RED R
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Bridge Creek (HUC 111402010105)
SIC	4911 – Electric Services
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ARR000017764; ICIS-AIR source AR0000000505700506

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

6Pollutants on file
6Under a numeric limit
6With 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
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	1	3	1	June 30, 2009	4% over the limit
Oxygen demand, chem. [low level] [COD]	2	4	0
pH	2	4	0
Solids, total suspended	2	4	0
Oil & Grease	2	4	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	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 ARG250004.

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 EPA public-records page covers the Clean Water Act NPDES discharge permit ARG250004 held by AEP SWEPCO-JOHN W TURK POWER PLANT for the JOHN W. TURK POWER PLANT in Fulton, AR, which discharges to BRIDGE CR,RED R and is administratively continued, with a Minor Discharger class of 6, 1 pollutant under a numeric limit, and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance. The permit was issued May 22, 2009 and expired November 30, 2012, with status as loaded on October 14, 2026.