PERMIT RATIONALE FOR REISSUANCE
Magnolia Funeral Home South, LLC
Alcorn County
Corinth, Mississippi
Water NPDES No. MS0059749
February 4, 2025

I.	FACILITY INFORMATION

	Facility Name:  	Magnolia Funeral Home South, LLC
Facility Address:  	740 Hwy 45 
	Corinth, MS 38834    
Oxford, 
Permit No.:  		MS0059749
SIC:  			7261
Permit Writer:  	Rajeev Gupta
EPD Branch:  		Water II Branch 

II.	NATURE OF BUSINESS

A.	The applicant operates as a funeral home with preparatory operations.  The funeral 
	home does not embalm.  
B.	Permit MS0059749 is a direct discharge permit for treated domestic wastewater only.

III.	EFFLUENT AND RECEIVING STREAM FLOW DATA

The treated domestic wastewater will discharge at a maximum rate of 1,000 gallons per day from an underground ATU to an unnamed ditch thence to Mayes Creek and thence to the Tuscumbia River Canal.

IV.	TOTAL DAILY MAXIMUM LOAD (TMDL) AND 303(d) ISSUES 

The receiving stream does not appear on the 2024 State of Mississippi 303(d) List of Impaired Waterbodies. This permit complies with the following applicable TMDLs:

•	Phase 1 Biological Impairment TMDL For Parmicha Creek North Independent Basin Alcorn County Mississippi (July 2001; ID# 301072601)
•	Total Maximum Daily Load Tuscumbia River Canal Watershed for Biological Impairment Due to Sediment Northern Independent Streams Basin (November 2005; ID# 305113004)
•	Total Maximum Daily Load Nutrients and Organic Enrichment/Low DO for Bridge and Elam Creek and Tuscumbia River Canal North Independent Streams Basin Alcorn and Prentiss Counties, Mississippi (Final March 25, 2009; ID# 309032501)
•	Fecal Coliform TMDL For Tuscumbia River Canal North Independent Basin, Alcorn and Prentiss Counties, Mississippi (Final Report May 2000; ID# 300051901)
•	Total Maximum Daily Load For pH Hatchie River and Tuscumbia River Canal (302411 & 301211) North Independent Streams Bain Mississippi (Final Report ERRATA April 2020)

V.	TYPE OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT
 
An ATU 1,000 gallon underground system.  

VI.	PROPOSED FINAL LIMITATIONS 

A.	Average Permit Limitations

Parameter	Proposed Limitation	Basis	
Chlorine, Total Residual, Range	0.1 – 1.0 mg/L	Domestic Guidelines	
E. coli	126 colonies/100 ml	1/	
Flow	Report	TJ	
Oxygen Demand, Biochemical,  5-day	30 mg/L	Domestic Guidelines	
pH Range	6.0 - 9.0 s.u	1/	
Solids (Total Suspended)	30 mg/L	Domestic Guidelines	

B.	Maximum Permit Limitations

Parameter	Proposed Limitation	Basis	
Chlorine, Total Residual, Range	0.1 – 1.0 mg/L	Domestic Guidelines	
E. coli	410 colonies/100 ml	1/	
Flow	0.001 MGD	Design	
Oxygen Demand, Biochemical,  5-day	45 mg/L	Domestic Guidelines	
pH Range	6.0-9.0 s.u	1/	
Solids (Total Suspended)	45 mg/L	Domestic Guidelines	

	1/ Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality Regulation WPC-2: Water Quality 
	Criteria for Intrastate, Interstate and Coastal Waters – 11 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 6, Ch. 2. (http://www.deq.state.ms.us/newweb/MDEQRegulations.nsf)

TJ = Technical Judgement

VII.	MONITORING AND REPORTING

A.	Chlorine and flow shall be sampled weekly and reported annually.

	B.	E. coli, BOD5, pH, and Solids shall be sampled and reported annually.