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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ARL022021

WEST HELENA WATER UTILITIES, West Helena, AR: NPDES ARL022021 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

WEST HELENA WATER UTILITIES holds NPDES permit ARL022021. EPA’s file records it issued January 1, 2021 and expiring December 31, 2025. 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 filedWEST HELENA WATER UTILITIES
Permittee as filedWEST HELENA WATER UTILITIES
NPDES IDARL022021
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeAssociated permit record
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramBiosolids
IssuedJanuary 1, 2021
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2025
AddressWest Helena, AR 72390
SubwatershedBeaver Bayou (HUC 080203040305)

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
Arsenic, dry weight0100
Nickel, sludge, total, dry weight [as Ni]0100
Selenium, dry weight060
Copper, dry weight060
Cadmium, dry weight060
Molybdenum, sludge, total, dry weight [as Mo]060
Zinc, sludge, total, dry weight [as Zn]060
Lead, sludge, total, dry weight [as Pb]060
Mercury, sludge, total, dry weight [as Hg]060
Chromium, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cr]040
Level of pathogen requirements achieved040
Description of pathogen option used040
Vector attraction reduction alternative used040
Polychlorinated biphenyls [PCBs]030
Toxicity characteristic leaching procedure030
Ann. amt sludge disposed by other method030
Annual amt of sludge incinerated030
Annual sludge production, total030
Annual amount of sludge land applied030
Annual amt. sludge disposed surface unit030
Annual amt sludge disposed in landfill030
Annual amt sludge transported interstate030
Unit w/liner/leachate collection system020
Unit boundary to property line distance020
Compliance w/part 258 sludge requirement020
Pollutant table from 503.13020

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ARL022021.

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 ARL022021.

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 September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

Of the 2 biosolids permits on EPA's NPDES register in Phillips County, West Helena Water Utilities' permit ARL022021 is one, and it is also among the 4 NPDES permits in the Beaver Bayou subwatershed. The permit records 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.