Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MS0025127

MERIGOLD POTW, Merigold, MS: NPDES MS0025127 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
11Pollutants under a numeric limit
6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

MERIGOLD POTW holds NPDES permit MS0025127, which discharges to Jones Bayou. EPA’s file records it issued May 25, 2017 and expiring April 30, 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	MERIGOLD POTW
Permittee as filed	MERIGOLD POTW
NPDES ID	MS0025127
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 25, 2017
Expiration date	April 30, 2022
Address	Merigold, MS 39759
Receiving water	JONES BAYOU
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

12Pollutants on file
11Under a numeric limit
12With a violation of any kind
6With 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
E. coli	2	13	11	December 31, 2025	99,999% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	0	25	5	December 31, 2008	325% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	2	20	4	September 30, 2004	368% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	8	61	3	December 31, 2023	80% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	8	66	2	December 31, 2024	11% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	9	1	June 30, 2003	32% over the limit
pH	2	16	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	13	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	8	8	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	8	8	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	8	8	0
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	8	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 MS0025127.

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.

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MS0025127 held by MERIGOLD POTW in Merigold, MS, which discharges to Jones Bayou, and lists its permit status as administratively continued. The page reports 11 pollutants under a numeric limit, 6 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and 12 pollutants on file.