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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TNR138127

EAST TN TREE SERVICE MULCHING FACILITY, Knoxville, TN: NPDES TNR138127 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

EAST TN TREE SERVICE MULCHING FACILITY, held by Chad Benton, holds NPDES permit TNR138127, which discharges to Clinch-Lower. EPA’s file records it issued December 18, 2025 and expiring September 30, 2026. 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.

What the register holds for EAST TN TREE SERVICE MULCHING FACILITY: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Knoxville, Tennessee, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES TNR138127.

Identity

Facility as filedEAST TN TREE SERVICE MULCHING FACILITY
Permittee as filedChad Benton
NPDES IDTNR138127
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramConstruction stormwater
IssuedDecember 18, 2025
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2026
Issuing agencyTDEC - DWR
AddressKnoxville, TN 37921
Receiving waterClinch-Lower
SubwatershedBeaver Creek Lower (HUC 060102070202)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES TNR138127.

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 TNR138127.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.