Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MS0021130
PICKENS POTW, Pickens, MS: NPDES MS0021130 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 7Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
PICKENS POTW holds NPDES permit MS0021130, which discharges to Big Black. EPA’s file records it issued April 9, 2018 and expiring March 31, 2023. 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 | PICKENS POTW |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | PICKENS POTW |
| NPDES ID | MS0021130 |
| 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 | April 9, 2018 |
| Expiration date | March 31, 2023 |
| Issuing agency | MDEQ |
| Address | Pickens, MS 39146 |
| Receiving water | BIG BLACK |
| Subwatershed | Tacketts Creek-Big Black River (HUC 080602010904) |
| Program components on file | POTW, Pretreatment |
| NAICS | 221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities |
| 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
- 7Under a numeric limit
- 10With 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pH | 2 | 9 | 4 | December 31, 2019 | |
| E. coli | 2 | 8 | 4 | December 31, 2025 | 144% over the limit |
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 2 | 8 | 2 | December 31, 2020 | 33% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, percent removal | 1 | 5 | 2 | December 31, 2021 | 49% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 8 | 19 | 1 | December 31, 2021 | 4% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C | 8 | 18 | 0 | ||
| Chlorine, total residual | 2 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, total [as N] | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Coliform, fecal general | 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
- 0Single-event violations
EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES MS0021130.
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.