Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ARG550570

CENTRAL TUBE AND BAR, INC., Conway, AR: NPDES ARG550570 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
6Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CENTRAL TUBE AND BAR, INC., held by Central Tube and Bar, Inc., holds NPDES permit ARG550570, which discharges to Little Cr,Lake Conway,Palarm Cr,Arkansas R. EPA’s file records it issued December 18, 2013 and expiring June 30, 2019. 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	CENTRAL TUBE AND BAR, INC.
Permittee as filed	Central Tube and Bar, Inc.
NPDES ID	ARG550570
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	December 18, 2013
Expiration date	June 30, 2019
Address	Conway, AR 72032
Receiving water	Little Cr,Lake Conway,Palarm Cr,Arkansas R
Subwatershed	Little Creek-Palarm Creek (HUC 111102030403)
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

6Pollutants on file
6Under a numeric limit
6With 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	14	8	June 30, 2021	99,999% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	13	7	June 30, 2021	150% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	8	2	December 31, 2020	175% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	2	4	1	December 31, 2017	20% over the limit
pH	4	6	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	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 ARG550570.

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 ARG550570, held by Central Tube and Bar, Inc. of Conway, AR, which discharges to Little Cr, Lake Conway, Palarm Cr, and Arkansas R. The permit is administratively continued, with a Minor Discharger class, 6 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.