Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES KY0025755
BENHAM STP, Benham, KY: NPDES KY0025755 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 12Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 9Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
BENHAM STP, held by Benham STP, holds NPDES permit KY0025755, which discharges to Looney Crk. EPA’s file records it issued December 18, 2015 and expiring January 31, 2021. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.
Identity
| Facility as filed | BENHAM STP |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | Benham STP |
| NPDES ID | KY0025755 |
| 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 | December 18, 2015 |
| Expiration date | January 31, 2021 |
| Address | Benham, KY 40807 |
| Receiving water | LOONEY CRK |
| Subwatershed | Looney Creek-Poor Fork Cumberland River (HUC 051301010102) |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 14Pollutants on file
- 12Under a numeric limit
- 14With 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E. coli | 2 | 263 | 195 | July 31, 2026 | 99,999% over the limit |
| Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N] | 8 | 341 | 177 | July 31, 2026 | 10,204% over the limit |
| Solids, suspended percent removal | 1 | 114 | 78 | June 30, 2026 | 99,999% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 6 | 295 | 75 | May 31, 2024 | 2,047% over the limit |
| BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C] | 6 | 279 | 59 | September 30, 2025 | 2,102% over the limit |
| BOD, carb-5 day, 20 deg C, percent removal | 1 | 92 | 56 | July 31, 2026 | 567% over the limit |
| Oxygen, dissolved [DO] | 1 | 77 | 42 | July 31, 2026 | 81% over the limit |
| pH | 2 | 74 | 4 | June 30, 2026 | |
| Coliform, fecal general | 0 | 4 | 2 | June 30, 2004 | 232% over the limit |
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 4 | 138 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, total [as N] | 2 | 88 | 0 | ||
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 2 | 88 | 0 | ||
| Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit | 2 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Hardness, total [as CaCO3] | 0 | 1 | 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 KY0025755.
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 14, 2026.