Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MO0081655

SOUTHERN HILLS WWTF, Warrensburg, MO: NPDES MO0081655 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
6Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SOUTHERN HILLS WWTF, held by Southern Hills Association, holds NPDES permit MO0081655, which discharges to Tributary To West Bear Creek. EPA’s file records it issued April 18, 2017 and expiring March 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	SOUTHERN HILLS WWTF
Permittee as filed	Southern Hills Association
NPDES ID	MO0081655
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	April 18, 2017
Expiration date	March 31, 2022
Address	Warrensburg, MO 64093
Receiving water	Tributary to West Bear Creek
Subwatershed	Bear Creek (HUC 103001040301)
SIC	8641 – Civic And Social Associations

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
6Under a numeric limit
8With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	27	23	December 31, 2025	1,431% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	12	8	March 31, 2013	2,222,120% over the limit
E. coli	4	6	4	June 30, 2024	1,075% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	0	2	2	October 31, 2009	4,150% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	2	5	1	December 31, 2018	25% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	10	0
pH	1	2	0
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	0	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

1Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
October 15, 2018	Effluent Violations - Numeric effluent violation	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 MO0081655 for SOUTHERN HILLS WWTF in Warrensburg, MO, held by Southern Hills Association, which discharges to Tributary To West Bear Creek in the Bear Creek subwatershed. The permit is administratively continued and is listed with 5 pollutants under a numeric limit and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.