PERMIT RATIONALE FOR REISSUANCE
Memphis Communities LLC dba Buck Island MHC
Tunica County
Robinsonville, Mississippi
Water NPDES No. MS0049123
December 2023

I.	FACILITY INFORMATION

Facility Name:  Memphis Communities LLC dba Buck Island MHC
Facility Address:  2466 Kirby Road 
 Robinsonville, MS  38664    
Rincon, 
Permit No.:  MS0049123
SIC:  6515
Permit Writer:  Christiana Boren
EPD Branch:  Municipal and Private Facilities

II.	CLASSIFICATION – NPDES Commercial

III.	DESCRIPTION OF WASTEWATER – Domestic

IV.	DESCRIPTION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT – Domestic wastewater is collected and treated via a conventional lagoon followed by chlorine disinfection prior to discharge. 

V.	RECEIVING WATERS – Buck Island Bayou. The receiving water is located in the Yazoo River drainage basin and is classified as Fish & Wildlife.  At the point of discharge, the receiving water does not appear on the current State of Mississippi 303(d) List of Impaired Waterbodies. The facility is listed in a completed TMDL for Organic Enrichment/Low Dissolved Oxygen and Nutrients in the Coldwater River (June 2003). The TMDL does not recommend any reductions in permitted limits for the facility. 

VI.	APPLICABLE GUIDELINES – 11 Mississippi Admin Code pt. 6, Commercial Facility Guidelines (Technology)

VII.	SUMMARY OF DISCHARGE LIMITATIONS – 
Parameter		Value				Basis
Flow			0.041 MGD			Design
BOD			30 mg/l 			Technology
TSS			90 mg/l 			Technology
E. coli			126 Col./100mL 		Admin Code
pH			6.0 to 9.0 S.U.			Admin Code
Chlorine		0.1 to 1.0 mg/l			Technology

VIII.	CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS PERMIT – None.