Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES KY0093301

KENTUCKY AMERICAN WATER CO, Lexington, KY: NPDES KY0093301 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

KENTUCKY AMERICAN WATER CO, held by Kentucky American Water Co, holds NPDES permit KY0093301, which discharges to West Hickman Crk. EPA’s file records it issued June 1, 2017 and expiring June 30, 2022. 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	KENTUCKY AMERICAN WATER CO
Permittee as filed	Kentucky American Water Co
NPDES ID	KY0093301
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	June 1, 2017
Expiration date	June 30, 2022
Address	Lexington, KY 40502
Receiving water	WEST HICKMAN CRK
Subwatershed	West Hickman Creek (HUC 051002050602)
NAICS	221310 – Water Supply and Irrigation Systems
SIC	4941 – Water Supply
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler KYR000058511

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

8Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
8With a violation of any kind
3With 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
Solids, total suspended	2	7	5	January 31, 2019	374% over the limit
pH	4	4	2	April 30, 2004
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	1	2	2	September 30, 2008	3% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	4	4	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	2	0
Iron, total recoverable	2	2	0
Aluminum, total recoverable	2	2	0
Phosphorus, Total As P	2	2	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 KY0093301.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit KY0093301, held by Kentucky American Water Co in Lexington, KY, which discharges to West Hickman Crk within the West Hickman Creek subwatershed (HUC 051002050602). The permit is administratively continued with a Minor Discharger class, and the listed figures are 8 for pollutants under a numeric limit and 3 for pollutants with an effluent exceedance.