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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MS0027537

BERNARD BAYOU INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT, Gulfport, MS: NPDES MS0027537 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BERNARD BAYOU INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT holds NPDES permit MS0027537, which discharges to Drainage Ditch Then Bernard Bayou. EPA’s file records it issued October 23, 2017 and expiring September 30, 2022. 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 filedBERNARD BAYOU INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT
Permittee as filedBERNARD BAYOU INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT
NPDES IDMS0027537
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedOctober 23, 2017
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2022
Issuing agencyMDEQ
AddressGulfport, MS 39503
Receiving waterDRAINAGE DITCH THEN BERNARD BAYOU
SubwatershedBernard Bayou-Big Lake (HUC 031700090602)

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
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C814456January 31, 2026200% over the limit
Enterococci: group D, MF trans, M-E, EIA24423September 30, 20242,474% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]810820January 31, 2025580% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general05913April 30, 2017800% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant25412April 30, 2021119% over the limit
Solids, total suspended4884March 31, 202155% over the limit
Nitrogen, total [as N]8553June 30, 202640% over the limit
pH2453May 31, 2019
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]3672June 30, 201428% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual2451April 30, 2019264% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]8520
Sludge settleability 30 minute2460
Enterococci0260

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES MS0027537.

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.