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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LAL038709

DEQUINCY, CITY OF, Dequincy, LA: NPDES LAL038709 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

DEQUINCY, CITY OF, held by CITY OF DEQUINCY, holds NPDES permit LAL038709, which discharges to Buxton Creek. EPA’s file records it issued January 1, 2021 and expiring December 31, 2025. 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 filedDEQUINCY, CITY OF
Permittee as filedCITY OF DEQUINCY
NPDES IDLAL038709
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeAssociated permit record
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramBiosolids
IssuedJanuary 1, 2021
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2025
AddressDequincy, LA 70633
Receiving waterBUXTON CREEK
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedBuxton Creek (HUC 080802050404)
SIC4952 – 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

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Arsenic, dry weight0220
Nickel, sludge, total, dry weight [as Ni]0220
Selenium, dry weight0140
Copper, dry weight0140
Cadmium, dry weight0140
Molybdenum, sludge, total, dry weight [as Mo]0140
Zinc, sludge, total, dry weight [as Zn]0140
Lead, sludge, total, dry weight [as Pb]0140
Mercury, sludge, total, dry weight [as Hg]0140
Chromium, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cr]080
Level of pathogen requirements achieved080
Description of pathogen option used080
Vector attraction reduction alternative used080
Polychlorinated biphenyls [PCBs]040
Toxicity characteristic leaching procedure040
Ann. amt sludge disposed by other method040
Annual amt of sludge incinerated040
Annual sludge production, total040
Annual amount of sludge land applied040
Annual amt. sludge disposed surface unit040
Annual amt sludge disposed in landfill040
Annual amt sludge transported interstate040
Unit w/liner/leachate collection system040
Unit boundary to property line distance040
Compliance w/part 258 sludge requirement040
Pollutant table from 503.13040

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES LAL038709.

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES LAL038709.

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.

What this page shows

The DEQUINCY, CITY OF permit is one of 2 NPDES permits in the Buxton Creek subwatershed, and it sits among 6 biosolids permits in Calcasieu Parish, where 66.7% of the others carry a violation on file. Its records show no pollutant under a numeric limit and no effluent exceedance, both counted at 0.