Wastewater Enforcement: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Union County Extrusion Facility Enter Into Agreed Order
June 23, 2026
By:
Walter G. Wright
Category:
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
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The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Metal Impact South, LLC (“Metal Impact”) entered into a May 26 Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES Permit”).
The AO provides that Metal Impact operates a facility in Union County, Mississippi.
MCEQ is stated to have notified Metal Impact by letters dated January 12, 2025, January 14, 2026, and May 12, 2026 of the following alleged violations of an NPDES Permit:
- Various exceedances of the total recoverable aluminum discharge limitations
- Exceeding the carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand of discharge limitations
- Exceedance of the E. coli discharge limitations
- Exceedance of the total suspended solids
- Exceedance of the total recoverable copper discharge limitations
Metal Impact, pursuant to March 5 and March 23 letters submitted to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality a list of corrective actions to be implemented to return the facilities’ wastewater treatment system to compliance with the discharge limitations. Further, on April 21, Metal Impact submitted the discharge monitoring report for March, 2026 which demonstrated compliance with the discharge limitations.
A civil penalty of $18,000 is assessed.
A copy of the AO can be found here.
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