PERMIT RATIONALE FOR REISSUANCE
Steve Mulkey dba Meridian East, Toomsuba KOA
Lauderdale County
Toomsuba, Mississippi
Water NPDES No. MS0034240
March 2023

I.	CLASSIFICATION –NPDES Commercial

II.	DESCRIPTION OF WASTEWATER –Domestic

III.	DESCRIPTION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT – Domestic wastewater is collected and treated via a Conventional lagoon.  

IV.	RECEIVING WATERS – Unnamed Tributary of Toomsuba Creek. The receiving streams do not appear on the current State of Mississippi 303(d) list of Impaired Waterbodies nor have they been listed in a completed TMDL.  Toomsuba Creek is located in the Tombigbee River drainage basin and is classified as Fish and Wildlife.

V.	APPLICABLE GUIDELINES – 11 Mississippi Admin Code pt. 6, Commercial Facility Guidelines (Technology), State of Mississippi Water Quality Criteria (MSWQS)

VI.	SUMMARY OF DISCHARGE LIMITATIONS – 

Parameter		Value					Basis
Flow			0.0024 MGD				Design
BOD			30 mg/l 				Technology
TSS			90 mg/l 				Technology
E. Coli 		126 Col./100mL 			MSWQS
pH			6.0 to 9.0 S.U.				MSWQS
Chlorine		0.1 to 1.0 mg/l				Technology

VII.	CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS PERMIT-

No change