DRAFT PERMIT RATIONALE FOR REISSUANCE
Fikes Wholesale Inc, CEFCO Number 584
Clarke County
Stonewall, Mississippi
Water NPDES No. MS0055042
May 4, 2022

I.	FACILITY INFORMATION

Facility Name:		Fikes Wholesale Inc, CEFCO Number 584
Facility Address:	975 South Erwin Road 
	Stonewall, MS  393639609
Temple, 
Permit No.:		MS0055042
SIC:			7542
Permit Writer:		Rusty Parrish
EPD Branch:		Water II Branch

II.	NATURE OF BUSINESS

Fikes Wholesale Inc, CEFCO Number 584 operates an unmanned carwash at a gas station with a convenient store in Clarke County. This operation discharges into an unnamed tributary of Bostic Branch.

III.	EFFLUENT AND RECEIVING STREAM FLOW DATA

Fikes Wholesale Inc, CEFCO Number 584 discharges 700 gallons per day of treated carwash effluent through an existing outfall into an unnamed tributary thence into Bostic Branch which is located in the Pascagoula River Basin.
	
IV.	303(d) and TOTAL MAXIMUM DAILY LOADS (TMDL) ISSUES

Bostic Branch does not appear on Mississippi’s 303(d) List of Impaired Water Bodies. The permit complies with the following TMDLs:
•	Sediment – Bostic Branch Watershed – Pascagoula River Basin – June 2005 – ID: 405062104
•	Sediment – Chickasawhay River Watershed – Pascagoula River Basin – June 2005 – ID: 405052401
•	Nutrients (Organic Enrichment, Total Phosphorus, and Ammonia Toxicity) – Chickasawhay River – Green and Wayne Counties – June 2005 – ID: 405063008
•	Sediment – Chickasawhay River Watershed – Pascagoula River Basin – May 2005 – ID: 405051703
•	DDT and Toxaphene – Pascagoula River Basin – January 2004 – ID: 404011301
•	Mercury – Pascagoula River - Pascagoula River Basin – March 2005 – ID: 405031801
•	Fecal Coliform – Chickasawhay River – Clarke, Wayne, and Greene Counties
•	Fecal Coliform - Pascagoula River - Pascagoula River Basin – December 1999 – ID: 499121505

V.	TYPE OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT

Process wastewater is treated by an oil/water separator and sand bed filter.

VI.	EPA APPLICABLE CATEGORICAL GUIDELINES

None.

VII.	DATA FROM MISSISSIPPI SMALL DOMESTIC NPDES APPLICATION FORM

	Application testing waiver was requested and approved.
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VIII.	PROPOSED FINAL LIMITATIONS 

Outfall 001
Parameter	Current Permit Limit (CPL)	Present Permit Limit (PPL)	Basis	
	Average	Maximum	Average	Maximum		
Flow	-----	0.0007 MGD	-----	0.0007 MGD	Average Design	
pH	6.0 SU (min)	9.0 SU	6.0 SU (min)	9.0 SU	MSWQS	
Oil and Grease	10 mg/L	15 mg/L	10 mg/L	15 mg/L	1/	
Total Suspended Solids 	30 mg/L	45 mg/L	30 mg/L	45 mg/L	1/	

		MSWQS = Mississippi Water Quality Standards

1/Proposed permit limits for Oil and Grease and Total Suspended Solids are comparable to limits placed in permits held by existing similar commercial car wash facilities in the State of Mississippi.  

Effluent Limits have been developed such that the waste treatment system should protect water quality.  However, this permit is subject to modification if future evidence, monitoring results, or nuisance conditions indicate a higher degree of treatment is required to maintain water quality in the receiving stream.