Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MS0024601
LEXINGTON POTW, Lexington, MS: NPDES MS0024601 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 12Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
LEXINGTON POTW holds NPDES permit MS0024601, which discharges to Black Creek. EPA’s file records it issued May 7, 2020 and expiring April 30, 2025. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.
Identity
| Facility as filed | LEXINGTON POTW |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | LEXINGTON POTW |
| NPDES ID | MS0024601 |
| 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 | May 7, 2020 |
| Expiration date | April 30, 2025 |
| Issuing agency | MDEQ |
| Address | Lexington, MS 39095 |
| Receiving water | BLACK CREEK |
| Receiving water impaired | 303(D) Listed |
| Subwatershed | Gourdvine Creek-Black Creek (HUC 080302060506) |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 13Pollutants on file
- 12Under a numeric limit
- 13With 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solids, suspended percent removal | 1 | 11 | 8 | December 31, 2025 | 246% over the limit |
| Coliform, fecal general | 0 | 12 | 4 | December 31, 2014 | 500% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C | 8 | 35 | 3 | December 31, 2019 | 52% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 8 | 35 | 3 | December 31, 2015 | 129% over the limit |
| E. coli | 2 | 4 | 2 | December 31, 2021 | 860% over the limit |
| Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N] | 8 | 32 | 0 | ||
| pH | 2 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 2 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Chlorine, total residual | 2 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, total [as N] | 2 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 2 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Oxygen, dissolved [DO] | 1 | 4 | 0 | ||
| BOD, 5-day, percent removal | 1 | 4 | 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 MS0024601.
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 September 15, 2026.