Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES OH0139751

MERCERVILLE WWTP, Crown City, OH: NPDES OH0139751 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
14Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
0Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

MERCERVILLE WWTP holds NPDES permit OH0139751, which discharges to Drake Fork. EPA’s file records it issued June 5, 2009 and expiring June 30, 2014. 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	MERCERVILLE WWTP
Permittee as filed	MERCERVILLE WWTP
NPDES ID	OH0139751
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
Program	Biosolids
Issued	June 5, 2009
Expiration date	June 30, 2014
Address	Crown City, OH 45623
Receiving water	DRAKE FORK
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Johns Creek-Indian Guyan Creek (HUC 050901010707)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

15Pollutants on file
14Under a numeric limit
5With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	8	35	35	April 30, 2014	4,150% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	8	8	April 30, 2014	150% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	4	3	3	July 31, 2014	10,163% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	1	1	December 31, 2010	25% over the limit
E. coli, MTEC-MF	0	1	1	June 30, 2020	51% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	4	0	0
Flow rate	4	0	0
Color, spectrophoto-metric filter	4	0	0
Turbidity [severity]	4	0	0
Overflows	4	0	0
Sludge waste from secondary clarifiers	4	0	0
pH	3	0	0
Odor, atmospheric [severity]	2	0	0
Coliform, fecal MF, MFC broth, 44.5 C	2	0	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	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 OH0139751.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES OH0139751.

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES OH0139751.

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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MERCERVILLE WWTP, Crown City, Ohio: Individual permit OH0139751; Biosolids; Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued); issued June 5, 2009, term to June 30, 2014; discharges to DRAKE FORK.

Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]: 8 limits, 35 violations of any kind, 35 effluent exceedances, latest April 30, 2014, largest 4,150% over the limit.
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]: 4 limits, 8 violations of any kind, 8 effluent exceedances, latest April 30, 2014, largest 150% over the limit.
Chlorine, total residual: 4 limits, 3 violations of any kind, 3 effluent exceedances, latest July 31, 2014, largest 10,163% over the limit.
Solids, total suspended: 4 limits, 1 violation of any kind, 1 effluent exceedance, latest December 31, 2010, largest 25% over the limit.
E. coli, MTEC-MF: 0 limits, 1 violation of any kind, 1 effluent exceedance, latest June 30, 2020, largest 51% over the limit.
Temperature, water deg. centigrade: 4 limits, 0 violations of any kind, 0 effluent exceedances.
Flow rate: 4 limits, 0 violations of any kind, 0 effluent exceedances.
Color, spectrophoto-metric filter: 4 limits, 0 violations of any kind, 0 effluent exceedances.
Turbidity [severity]: 4 limits, 0 violations of any kind, 0 effluent exceedances.
Overflows: 4 limits, 0 violations of any kind, 0 effluent exceedances.
Sludge waste from secondary clarifiers: 4 limits, 0 violations of any kind, 0 effluent exceedances.
pH: 3 limits, 0 violations of any kind, 0 effluent exceedances.
Odor, atmospheric [severity]: 2 limits, 0 violations of any kind, 0 effluent exceedances.
Coliform, fecal MF, MFC broth, 44.5 C: 2 limits, 0 violations of any kind, 0 effluent exceedances.
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]: 1 limit, 0 violations of any kind, 0 effluent exceedances.

Ohio holds 104 Biosolids coverages of this permit type in EPA’s file; 5 were issued before OH0139751.

Coverages issued nearest OH0139751

May 12, 2003: TARA ESTATES SUBDIV WWTP, Addison, OH0050610, held by GALLIA COUNTY BD COMMISSION
June 28, 2007: M & H MHP LLC, Mansfield, OH0121347, held by HICKORY GROVE COMMUNITY LLC
July 12, 2007: INDIAN HILLS MHP, Bellefontaine, OH0127361
August 3, 2007: IMPERIAL MHP WWTP NO 2, Lordstown, OH0107450, held by IMPERIAL MOBILE HOME PARK
April 8, 2009: THE RIDGE PROJECT, INC., Mcclure, OH0125563, held by HOPE SCHOOL
April 9, 2010: COLONEL CRAWFORD HIGH SCHOOL, North Robinson, OH0135615
June 23, 2011: PERKINS RESTAURANT, Ashland, OH0138037, held by Unique Ventures Group LLC
September 7, 2011: M & M MHP, Ravenna, OH0121827, held by M & M Mobile Home Park
April 4, 2012: BLACK RIVER LOCAL SCHOOLS, Sullivan, OH0122173, held by Black River Local Schools
August 14, 2012: URBANA LOCAL ELEM SCH, Urbana, OH0131831, held by Urbana Local Sch Dist

MERCERVILLE WWTP among its neighbors

EPA’s permit file holds 1 discharge permits in the Johns Creek-Indian Guyan Creek subwatershed (HUC 050901010707), OH0139751 among them. Its county holds 18, 1 of them major permits; OH0139751 is a minor permit.

Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES OH0139751 for MERCERVILLE WWTP in Crown City, OH, which discharges to DRAKE FORK in the Johns Creek-Indian Guyan Creek subwatershed (HUC 050901010707). The page lists 15 pollutants on file, with 14 under a numeric limit and 5 with an effluent exceedance.