Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AR0047554

WARD, CITY OF, Ward, AR: NPDES AR0047554 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

WARD, CITY OF holds NPDES permit AR0047554, which discharges to 4-Mile Cr,Cypress Bu,Bu Des Arc,White R. EPA’s file records it issued August 21, 2014 and expiring August 31, 2019. 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	WARD, CITY OF
Permittee as filed	WARD, CITY OF
NPDES ID	AR0047554
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	August 21, 2014
Expiration date	August 31, 2019
Address	Ward, AR 72176
Receiving water	4-MILE CR,CYPRESS BU,BU DES ARC,WHITE R
Subwatershed	Fourmile Creek (HUC 080203010103)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

10Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
10With 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
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	3	285	243	November 30, 2018	769% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	3	264	222	November 30, 2018	1,233% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	9	234	192	January 31, 2026	425% over the limit
Coliform, fecal, colony forming units	6	118	91	October 31, 2020	99,999% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	0	60	46	January 31, 2026	99,999% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	2	21	7	November 30, 2018	38% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	32	0
pH	2	29	0
Overflows	1	7	0
Overflow volume [SS0 volume, CSO volume]	1	7	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 AR0047554.

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 September 15, 2026.