Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES KY0079898
BEREA MUNICIPAL UTILITIES WWTP, Berea, KY: NPDES KY0079898 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MajorDischarger class
- 121Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
BEREA MUNICIPAL UTILITIES WWTP, held by Berea Municipal Utilities WWTP, holds NPDES permit KY0079898, which discharges to Silver Crk. EPA’s file records it issued July 10, 2020 and expiring September 30, 2025. 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 | BEREA MUNICIPAL UTILITIES WWTP |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | Berea Municipal Utilities WWTP |
| NPDES ID | KY0079898 |
| 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 | July 10, 2020 |
| Expiration date | September 30, 2025 |
| Address | Berea, KY 40403 |
| Receiving water | SILVER CRK |
| Subwatershed | Hays Fork-Silver Creek (HUC 051002050202) |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 122Pollutants on file
- 121Under a numeric limit
- 8With 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; the 60 with the most exceedances of 122 are shown.
| Pollutant or measure | Limits | Violations, any kind | Effluent exceedances | Latest exceedance | Largest exceedance, as filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N] | 8 | 12 | 12 | December 31, 2005 | 100% over the limit |
| E. coli | 2 | 9 | 9 | October 31, 2009 | 99,999% over the limit |
| Toxicity, final conc toxicity units | 1 | 5 | 5 | December 31, 2019 | 6,800% over the limit |
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 10 | 4 | 4 | June 30, 2012 | 22% over the limit |
| Coliform, fecal general | 0 | 1 | 1 | June 30, 2005 | 35% over the limit |
| Nitrogen, total [as N] | 4 | 12 | 0 | ||
| Solids, total suspended | 6 | 1 | 0 | ||
| pH | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Oil & Grease | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Cyanide, free [amenable to chlorination] | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Arsenic, total recoverable | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Selenium, total recoverable | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nickel, total recoverable | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Silver total recoverable | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Zinc, total recoverable | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Cadmium, total recoverable | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Lead, total recoverable | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chromium, total recoverable | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Copper, total recoverable | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Mercury, total recoverable | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C] | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Temperature, water deg. centigrade | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chloride [as Cl] | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Iron, total recoverable | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Phenolics, total | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chromium, hexavalent tot recoverable | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Hardness, total [as CaCO3] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Thallium, total recoverable | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Beryllium, total recoverable [as Be] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Antimony, total recoverable | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Dichlorobromomethane | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Carbon tetrachloride | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Bromoform | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chloroform | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Toluene | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Benzene | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Acenaphthylene | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Acenaphthene | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Acrolein | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Acrylonitrile | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Anthracene | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Benzo[k]fluoranthene | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Benzo[a]pyrene | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Bis[2-chloroethyl] ether | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Bis[2-chloroethoxy]methane | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Bis[2-chloroisopropyl] ether | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Butyl benzyl phthalate | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chlorobenzene | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chlorodibromomethane | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chrysene | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Diethyl phthalate | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Dimethyl phthalate | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1,2-Diphenylhydrazine | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Ethylbenzene | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Fluoranthene | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Fluorene | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Hexachloroethane | 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 KY0079898.
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.