Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LA0020401

COTTON VALLEY, TOWN OF, Cotton Valley, LA: NPDES LA0020401 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
7Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

COTTON VALLEY, TOWN OF holds NPDES permit LA0020401, which discharges to Seg 100501 Red River Basin. EPA’s file records it issued June 22, 2017 and expiring July 31, 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	COTTON VALLEY, TOWN OF
Permittee as filed	COTTON VALLEY, TOWN OF
NPDES ID	LA0020401
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	June 22, 2017
Expiration date	July 31, 2022
Address	Cotton Valley, LA 71018
Receiving water	SEG 100501 RED RIVER BASIN
Subwatershed	Gray Creek-Bayou Dorcheat (HUC 111402030305)
SIC	4952 – Sewerage Systems

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

8Pollutants on file
7Under 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	6	770	446	June 30, 2026	7,291% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	6	686	356	June 30, 2026	60,590% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	4	457	233	June 30, 2026	99,999% over the limit
pH	4	228	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	226	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	6	49	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	6	49	0
Chlorine, total residual	0	3	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

7Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
December 31, 2022	Reporting Violations - Failure to submit required report (non-DMR non-pretreatment)	ST6
December 31, 2019	Reporting Violations - Failure to submit required report (non-DMR non-pretreatment)	ST6
March 1, 2019	Monitoring Violations - Improper Analysis or Lab Error	ST6
March 1, 2019	Permit Violations - Violation Specified in Comment	ST6
March 1, 2019	Permit Violations - CWA §308 Failure to submit required permit application information	ST6
September 28, 2018	Reporting Violations - Failure to Notify	ST6
May 30, 2018	Monitoring Violations - Failure to Monitor for Non-Toxicity Requirements	ST6

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 LA0020401 held by COTTON VALLEY, TOWN OF in Cotton Valley, LA, which discharges to SEG 100501 RED RIVER BASIN and is administratively continued. The facts list 3 pollutants under a numeric limit and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with a Minor Discharger class of 7.