Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0001490

GEORGIA POWER COMPANY (BARTLETT'S FERRY HYDROELECTRIC PLANT), Salem, AL: NPDES GA0001490 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
1Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
0Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

GEORGIA POWER COMPANY (BARTLETT'S FERRY HYDROELECTRIC PLANT), held by Georgia Power Company, holds NPDES permit GA0001490. EPA’s file records it issued September 28, 2018 and expiring September 30, 2023. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	GEORGIA POWER COMPANY (BARTLETT'S FERRY HYDROELECTRIC PLANT)
Permittee as filed	Georgia Power Company
NPDES ID	GA0001490
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	September 28, 2018
Expiration date	September 30, 2023
Address	Salem, AL 36874
Subwatershed	Upper Long Cane Creek (HUC 031300020905)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler GAD000937862

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

5Pollutants on file
1Under a numeric limit
5With a violation of any kind
0With an effluent exceedance

An effluent exceedance is a discharge monitoring report value over the permit’s numeric limit (EPA’s violation code E90). A violation of any kind also counts a report not filed. Each row is EPA’s own count for that pollutant.

Pollutant or measure	Limits	Violations, any kind
Solids, total suspended	0	78
pH	0	76
Oil and grease	8	50
Oil & Grease	0	28
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	0	28

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES GA0001490.

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES limits and effluent violations files (ECHO download); up to 60 rows shown, most exceedances first.

Inspections, violations and enforcement

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES GA0001490.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES GA0001490.

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES GA0001490.

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES violation, inspection and enforcement files (ECHO download); up to 50 rows of each shown, newest first.

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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES GA0001490, held by Georgia Power Company for its Bartlett's Ferry Hydroelectric Plant in Salem, AL, with the permit status listed as administratively continued. The page lists a Minor discharger class, 0 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it sits in the Upper Long Cane Creek subwatershed, HUC 031300020905.