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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES KY0002011

KENTUCKY UTILITIES - GREEN RV GENERATING STATION, Central City, KY: NPDES KY0002011 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

KENTUCKY UTILITIES - GREEN RV GENERATING STATION, held by Kentucky Utilities - Green RV Generating Station, holds NPDES permit KY0002011, which discharges to Green River. EPA’s file records it issued August 19, 2018 and expiring September 30, 2023. 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 filedKENTUCKY UTILITIES - GREEN RV GENERATING STATION
Permittee as filedKentucky Utilities - Green RV Generating Station
NPDES IDKY0002011
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedAugust 19, 2018
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2023
AddressCentral City, KY 42330
Receiving waterGREEN RIVER
SubwatershedElk Creek-Green River (HUC 051100030505)

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
Toxicity, final conc toxicity units222February 28, 201999,999% over the limit
pH1411September 30, 2016
Plant intake as % of stream flow011June 30, 200747% over the limit
Solids, total suspended1400
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant1400
Cadmium, total recoverable1200
Copper, total recoverable1200
Mercury, total recoverable1200
Oil & Grease1000
Arsenic, total recoverable800
Nickel, total recoverable800
Silver total recoverable800
Zinc, total recoverable800
Lead, total recoverable800
Chromium, total recoverable800
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]600
Selenium, total recoverable400
Thallium, total recoverable400
Beryllium, total recoverable [as Be]400
Antimony, total recoverable400
Iron, total recoverable200
Metals, total200

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 KY0002011.

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

This page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES KY0002011, held by KENTUCKY UTILITIES - GREEN RV GENERATING STATION in Central City, KY, which discharges to GREEN RIVER within the Elk Creek-Green River watershed (HUC 051100030505). The permit is classed as a Major Discharger and is administratively continued, with 3 pollutants under a numeric limit and 21 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.