Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TN0020591
BELL BUCKLE STP, Bell Buckle, TN: NPDES TN0020591 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 15Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 12Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
BELL BUCKLE STP, held by Town of Bell Buckle, holds NPDES permit TN0020591, which discharges to Duck-Upper. EPA’s file records it issued October 30, 2023 and expiring October 31, 2024. 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 | BELL BUCKLE STP |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | Town of Bell Buckle |
| NPDES ID | TN0020591 |
| 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 | October 30, 2023 |
| Expiration date | October 31, 2024 |
| Issuing agency | TDEC - DWR |
| Address | Bell Buckle, TN 37020 |
| Receiving water | Duck-Upper |
| Receiving water impaired | 303(D) Listed |
| Subwatershed | Wartrace Creek (HUC 060400020201) |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 18Pollutants on file
- 15Under a numeric limit
- 15With a violation of any kind
- 12With 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N] | 10 | 55 | 44 | March 31, 2023 | 2,014% over the limit |
| SSO, Wet Weather | 1 | 25 | 25 | December 31, 2022 | 2,147,483,650% over the limit |
| Solids, suspended percent removal | 2 | 16 | 14 | December 31, 2013 | 95% over the limit |
| E. coli | 2 | 14 | 12 | July 31, 2025 | 157% over the limit |
| Carbonaceous oxygen demand, % removal | 0 | 12 | 12 | September 30, 2008 | 93% over the limit |
| Chlorine, total residual | 2 | 11 | 11 | November 30, 2022 | 4,550% over the limit |
| Oxygen, dissolved [DO] | 1 | 8 | 8 | June 30, 2021 | 15% over the limit |
| BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C] | 12 | 27 | 4 | March 31, 2025 | 64% over the limit |
| E. coli, MTEC-MF | 0 | 31 | 3 | January 31, 2019 | 18% over the limit |
| pH | 2 | 3 | 3 | October 31, 2019 | |
| SSO, Dry Weather | 1 | 3 | 3 | September 30, 2020 | 2,147,483,650% over the limit |
| Solids, settleable | 1 | 1 | 1 | June 30, 2004 | 99,999% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 7 | 13 | 0 | ||
| BOD, carbonaceous, percent removal | 2 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Overflows | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, total [as N] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 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 TN0020591.
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.