Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MS0021873

UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, THE, Oxford, MS: NPDES MS0021873 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
11Pollutants under a numeric limit
9Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, THE holds NPDES permit MS0021873, which discharges to Dir Into Ditch Then Burney Branch. EPA’s file records it issued March 3, 2017 and expiring February 28, 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	UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, THE
Permittee as filed	UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, THE
NPDES ID	MS0021873
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	March 3, 2017
Expiration date	February 28, 2022
Issuing agency	MDEQ
Address	Oxford, MS 38677
Receiving water	DIR INTO DITCH THEN BURNEY BRANCH
Subwatershed	Murray Creek-Yocona River (HUC 080302030107)
Program components on file	POTW, Pretreatment
NAICS	221112 – Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation
SIC	4952 – Sewerage Systems
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	ICIS-AIR source MS0000002807100003

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

13Pollutants on file
11Under a numeric limit
13With a violation of any kind
9With 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
Copper, total recoverable	0	62	62	July 31, 2026	180% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	8	19	11	March 31, 2015	993% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	8	18	10	November 30, 2012	233% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	2	10	10	July 31, 2011	374% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	7	5	July 31, 2009	50% over the limit
pH	2	7	3	September 30, 2013
E. coli	0	3	3	September 30, 2025	323% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	3	2	August 31, 2014	313% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	1	1	September 30, 2012	13% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	5	0
Solids, total suspended	8	4	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	3	3	0
Sludge settleability 30 minute	2	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 MS0021873.

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 NPDES permit MS0021873, held by UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, THE in Oxford, MS, which is listed as administratively continued with a Minor discharger class. The facts list 11 pollutants under a numeric limit and 9 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and the permit was issued March 3, 2017 and expired February 28, 2022.