Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LA0047031

TOWN OF LECOMPTE WWTP, Lecompte, LA: NPDES LA0047031 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
10Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

TOWN OF LECOMPTE WWTP, held by TOWN OF LECOMPTE, holds NPDES permit LA0047031, which discharges to Rattlesnake Bayou. 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	TOWN OF LECOMPTE WWTP
Permittee as filed	TOWN OF LECOMPTE
NPDES ID	LA0047031
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	Lecompte, LA 71346
Receiving water	RATTLESNAKE BAYOU
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Rattlesnake Bayou-Chatlin Lake Canal (HUC 080801020105)
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

10Pollutants on file
10Under a numeric limit
7With a violation of any kind
5With 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
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	6	85	76	May 31, 2026	660% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	12	33	24	October 31, 2018	1,335% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	12	33	24	October 31, 2021	268% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	2	14	11	September 30, 2016	40% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	4	12	6	April 30, 2025	400% over the limit
pH	4	6	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	6	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	6	0	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	6	0	0
Solids, total dissolved	6	0	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 LA0047031.

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 LA0047031 for the Town of Lecompte WWTP in Lecompte, LA, held by the Town of Lecompte, which discharges to Rattlesnake Bayou and is listed as administratively continued. The page lists 5 pollutants under a numeric limit and 10 for the permit's minor discharger class, with 5 pollutants recorded as having an effluent exceedance.