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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MS0031704

LEAF RIVER CELLULOSE LLC, Perry County, MS: NPDES MS0031704 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

LEAF RIVER CELLULOSE LLC holds NPDES permit MS0031704, which discharges to Leaf River. EPA’s file records it issued October 16, 2002 and expiring September 30, 2007. 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 filedLEAF RIVER CELLULOSE LLC
Permittee as filedLEAF RIVER CELLULOSE LLC
NPDES IDMS0031704
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedOctober 16, 2002
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2007
AddressPerry County, MS 39462
Receiving waterLEAF RIVER
SubwatershedGum Branch-Leaf River (HUC 031700050604)
SIC2611 – Pulp Mills
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler MSD981864150; ICIS-AIR source MS0000002811100005

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

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Aluminum, total recoverable4124March 31, 201122% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant420
pH210
pH range excursions, monthly total accum110
LC50 Static 48Hr Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia110
LC50 Static 96Hr Acute Pimephales110
IC25 Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia110
IC25 Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Chrpimephales110
2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin800
Chloroform400
2,4,6-Trichlorophenol400
2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzofuran400
Pentachlorophenol400
3,4,6-Trichloroguaiacol400
3,4,6-Trichlorocatechol400
2,4,5-Trichlorophenol400
2,3,4,6-Tetrachlorophenol400
3,4,5-Trichloroguaiacol300
3,4,5-Trichlorocatechol300
Tetrachloroguaiacol300
Tetrachlorocatechol300
Trichlorosyringol300
4,5,6-Trichloroguaiacol300
Color [PT-CO units]200
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C200
Solids, total suspended200
Adsorbable organic halides [AOX]200
pH range excursions, > 60 minutes100

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES MS0031704.

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.

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