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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES KY0089079

PIKE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT, Cold Spring, KY: NPDES KY0089079 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

PIKE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT, held by PIKE COLD SPRING STP, holds NPDES permit KY0089079, which discharges to Owl Crk. EPA’s file records it issued September 24, 2007 and expiring October 31, 2012. 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 filedPIKE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Permittee as filedPIKE COLD SPRING STP
NPDES IDKY0089079
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 24, 2007
Expiration dateOctober 31, 2012
AddressCold Spring, KY 41076
Receiving waterOWL CRK
SubwatershedFourmile Creek (HUC 050902011207)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]16021September 30, 200995% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]835018December 31, 2008968% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general01515September 30, 200699,999% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]419113March 31, 2010584% over the limit
Solids, total suspended418711September 30, 2019813% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual28810March 31, 201035,173% over the limit
E. coli28810March 31, 201099,877% over the limit
pH2791December 31, 2008
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant21040

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
February 21, 2023Permit Violations - Discharge Without a Valid PermitST6
February 21, 2023Monitoring Violations - Invalid/Unrepresentative SampleST6
February 21, 2023Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
February 21, 2023Management Practice Violations - Failure to Maintain RecordsST6
September 22, 2022Permit Violations - Discharge Without a Valid PermitST6
September 22, 2022Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
September 22, 2022Management Practice Violations - Failure to Maintain RecordsST6
September 22, 2022Effluent Violations - Narrative Effluent ViolationST6
March 8, 2022Management Practice Violations - Improper Operation and MaintenanceST6
March 8, 2022Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
March 8, 2022Management Practice Violations - Failure to Maintain RecordsST6
March 8, 2022Permit Violations - Discharge Without a Valid PermitST6
August 6, 2021Permit Violations - Failure to Submit Timely Permit Renewal ApplicationST6
November 25, 2019Effluent Violations - Narrative Effluent ViolationST6
November 25, 2019Reporting Violations - Failure to NotifyST6
November 25, 2019Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
November 25, 2019Management Practice Violations - Improper Operation and MaintenanceST6
May 14, 2019Effluent Violations - Narrative Effluent ViolationST6
May 14, 2019Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
May 14, 2019Management Practice Violations - Improper Operation and MaintenanceST6
May 14, 2019Reporting Violations - Failure to NotifyST6
July 5, 2018Effluent Violations - Narrative Effluent ViolationST6
July 5, 2018Management Practice Violations - Improper Operation and MaintenanceST6
July 5, 2018Management Practice Violations - No Licensed/Certified OperatorST6
July 5, 2018Management Practice Violations - Failure to Maintain RecordsST6
July 5, 2018Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
July 5, 2018Reporting Violations - Failure to NotifyST6
November 21, 2017Management Practice Violations - Improper Operation and MaintenanceST6
November 21, 2017Effluent Violations - Narrative Effluent ViolationST6
November 21, 2017Management Practice Violations - No Licensed/Certified OperatorST6
November 21, 2017Management Practice Violations - Failure to Maintain RecordsST6
November 21, 2017Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
November 21, 2017Reporting Violations - Failure to NotifyST6
May 8, 2017Management Practice Violations - Improper Operation and MaintenanceST6
May 8, 2017Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
May 8, 2017Management Practice Violations - No Licensed/Certified OperatorST6

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.