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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ARG790104

KEN'S STOP & SHOP, Van Buren, AR: NPDES ARG790104 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

KEN'S STOP & SHOP, held by BETTY JO GRIFFIN, holds NPDES permit ARG790104, which discharges to Arkansas River. EPA’s file records it issued March 31, 2011 and expiring March 31, 2016. 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 filedKEN'S STOP & SHOP
Permittee as filedBETTY JO GRIFFIN
NPDES IDARG790104
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedMarch 31, 2011
Expiration dateMarch 31, 2016
AddressVan Buren, AR 72956
Receiving waterARKANSAS RIVER
SubwatershedUpper Rock Creek (HUC 111102010101)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Whole effluent toxicity080
Benzene420
Benzene, toluene, xylene in combination420
Petrol hydrocarbons, total recoverable420
pH220
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant220
LF Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Pimephales promelas220
NOAEC Lethal Static Renewal 48Hr acute Pimephales promelas220
Solids, total suspended020
Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons [PAHs]020
Benzo[a]pyrene020
Low Flow Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Daphnia pulex210
NOAEC Lethal Statis Renewal 48 Hr Acute Daphnia pulex210
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 48Hr Acute D. pulex210
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Pimephales promelas210

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ARG790104.

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES ARG790104.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit ARG790104, held by KEN'S STOP & SHOP in Van Buren, AR, which discharges to the Arkansas River and is administratively continued as a minor discharger under a general permit. The page lists 15 pollutants on file, 11 of them under a numeric limit, with 15 showing a violation of some kind and none showing an effluent exceedance.