Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES KY0101541

GEARHEART COMMUNICATIONS CENTER, Harold, KY: NPDES KY0101541 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

GEARHEART COMMUNICATIONS CENTER, held by GEARHEART COMMUNICATIONS CTR, holds NPDES permit KY0101541, which discharges to Pin Hook Br / Big Sandy. EPA’s file records it issued December 12, 2006 and expiring January 31, 2012. 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	GEARHEART COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
Permittee as filed	GEARHEART COMMUNICATIONS CTR
NPDES ID	KY0101541
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	December 12, 2006
Expiration date	January 31, 2012
Address	Harold, KY 42102
Receiving water	PIN HOOK BR / BIG SANDY
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Island Creek-Levisa Fork (HUC 050702030202)
NAICS	531120 – Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings [except Miniwarehouses]
SIC	6512 – Nonresidential Building Operators

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
8Under 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]	8	144	112	September 30, 2014	10,963% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	115	87	September 30, 2014	13,269% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	108	80	December 31, 2014	1,377% over the limit
E. coli	2	44	40	June 30, 2014	99,999% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	2	25	21	June 30, 2014	6,082% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	27	20	December 31, 2012	43% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	0	16	6	December 31, 2006	9,800% over the limit
pH	2	14	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	14	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 KY0101541.

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 Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES KY0101541, held by GEARHEART COMMUNICATIONS CENTER in Harold, KY, which discharges to Pin Hook Br / Big Sandy and has an administratively continued status with a minor discharger class. The page lists 8 for the discharger class, 7 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 7 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.