Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MS0058483

SHORT FORK WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY, Hernando, MS: NPDES MS0058483 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
9Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SHORT FORK WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY, held by DESOTO COUNTY REG UTILITY AUTH, holds NPDES permit MS0058483, which discharges to Coldwater River. EPA’s file records it issued March 3, 2008 and expiring February 28, 2013. 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	SHORT FORK WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY
Permittee as filed	DESOTO COUNTY REG UTILITY AUTH
NPDES ID	MS0058483
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Major discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	March 3, 2008
Expiration date	February 28, 2013
Address	Hernando, MS 38632
Receiving water	COLDWATER RIVER
Subwatershed	Short Fork Creek-Coldwater River (HUC 080302040303)
Program components on file	POTW, Pretreatment
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
12Under a numeric limit
11With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	12	100	100	December 31, 2015	700% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	29	29	March 31, 2016	51% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	25	25	April 30, 2014	3,251% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	12	15	15	December 31, 2015	208% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	12	10	6	February 28, 2015	578% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	3	5	5	March 31, 2016	57% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	2	2	February 28, 2015	109% over the limit
pH	2	1	1	February 28, 2010
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	1	1	April 30, 2008	95% over the limit
Nitrogen, total [as N]	4	4	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	4	4	0
Sludge settleability 30 minute	2	0	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 MS0058483.

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 Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MS0058483 for the SHORT FORK WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY in Hernando, MS, held by DESOTO COUNTY REG UTILITY AUTH and discharging to Coldwater River, with a status of administratively continued and a Major Discharger class. The page lists 9 pollutants under a numeric limit and 12 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, based on the EPA permit file as loaded on October 14, 2026.