Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MS0038784

BUCKATUNNA ELEMENTARY, Buckatunna, MS: NPDES MS0038784 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

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

BUCKATUNNA ELEMENTARY, held by WAYNE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, BUCKATUNNA ELEMENTARY, holds NPDES permit MS0038784, which discharges to Dir Into An Unnamed Creek Then Chickasawhay River. EPA’s file records it issued May 7, 2018 and expiring April 30, 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	BUCKATUNNA ELEMENTARY
Permittee as filed	WAYNE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, BUCKATUNNA ELEMENTARY
NPDES ID	MS0038784
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	May 7, 2018
Expiration date	April 30, 2023
Issuing agency	MDEQ
Address	Buckatunna, MS 39322
Receiving water	DIR INTO AN UNNAMED CREEK THEN CHICKASAWHAY RIVER
Subwatershed	Mongus Creek-Buckatunna Creek (HUC 031700020607)
NAICS	611110 – Elementary and Secondary Schools
SIC	8211 – Elementary And Secondary Schools

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

7Pollutants on file
6Under a numeric limit
7With 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
Chlorine, total residual	2	65	55	December 31, 2019	680% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	40	31	December 31, 2024	1,313% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	26	6	December 31, 2018	132% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	26	6	December 31, 2019	88% over the limit
E. coli	2	9	3	December 31, 2021	1,275% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	0	5	1	December 31, 2017	75% over the limit
pH	2	10	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 MS0038784.

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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This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MS0038784 for BUCKATUNNA ELEMENTARY in Buckatunna, MS, held by WAYNE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with a minor discharger class and an administratively continued status. The permit lists 6 pollutants under a numeric limit and 6 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it discharges to DIR INTO AN UNNAMED CREEK THEN CHICKASAWHAY RIVER within the Mongus Creek-Buckatunna Creek subwatershed (HUC 031700020607).