Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES KY0052701

USDA FOREST SERVICE - GROVE CAMPGROUND, Corbin, KY: NPDES KY0052701 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
7Pollutants under a numeric limit
7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

USDA FOREST SERVICE - GROVE CAMPGROUND, held by USDA Forest Service - Grove Campground, holds NPDES permit KY0052701, which discharges to Laurel River Lake. EPA’s file records it issued March 4, 2016 and expiring April 30, 2021. 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	USDA FOREST SERVICE - GROVE CAMPGROUND
Permittee as filed	USDA Forest Service - Grove Campground
NPDES ID	KY0052701
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Federal facility
Issued	March 4, 2016
Expiration date	April 30, 2021
Address	Corbin, KY 40701
Receiving water	LAUREL RIVER LAKE
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Craig Creek-Laurel River (HUC 051301010806)
NAICS	721214 – Recreational and Vacation Camps [Except Campgrounds]
SIC	7032 – Sporting And Recreational Camps

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

9Pollutants on file
7Under a numeric limit
9With a violation of any kind
7With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	140	34	July 31, 2009	345% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	120	24	March 31, 2010	513% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	0	10	10	September 30, 2004	99,999% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	118	8	September 30, 2015	91% over the limit
pH	2	63	8	April 30, 2003
E. coli	2	54	8	July 31, 2010	1,428% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	0	20	6	September 30, 2001	15,689% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	60	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	28	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 KY0052701.

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 the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES KY0052701, held by USDA Forest Service - Grove Campground in Corbin, KY, which discharges to Laurel River Lake. The page lists 7 pollutants under a numeric limit and 7 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and the permit is shown as administratively continued.