Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0000728

CHEROKEE COUNTY - AMERICAN PROTEINS WPCP, Ball Ground, GA: NPDES GA0000728 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
10Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CHEROKEE COUNTY - AMERICAN PROTEINS WPCP, held by AMERICAN PROTEINS INC., holds NPDES permit GA0000728, which discharges to Etowah Rv- Coosa Rb. EPA’s file records it issued June 9, 2007 and expiring May 31, 2012. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (October 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	CHEROKEE COUNTY - AMERICAN PROTEINS WPCP
Permittee as filed	AMERICAN PROTEINS INC.
NPDES ID	GA0000728
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	June 9, 2007
Expiration date	May 31, 2012
Issuing agency	GA DNR
Address	Ball Ground, GA 30107
Receiving water	ETOWAH RV- COOSA RB
Subwatershed	Riggin Creek-Etowah River (HUC 031501040602)
SIC	2048 – Prepared Feeds

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

Effluent limits and exceedances

11Pollutants on file
10Under a numeric limit
11With a violation of any kind
2With 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	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	159	3	March 31, 2009	54% over the limit
Fecal coliform, MPN, EC med, 44.5 C	1	101	2	September 30, 2010	505% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	156	0
pH	2	156	0
Solids, total suspended	2	156	0
Oil & Grease	2	156	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	105	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	78	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	1	43	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	2	42	0
Chlorine, total residual	0	22	0

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 GA0000728.

Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not include the inspections, formal enforcement actions and informal enforcement actions files, so this page shows none of them. EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO lists this permit’s inspections, enforcement actions and penalties.

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 October 14, 2026.

This page covers NPDES permit GA0000728, held by AMERICAN PROTEINS INC. for the CHEROKEE COUNTY - AMERICAN PROTEINS WPCP in Ball Ground, GA, with a Minor Discharger class and an Administratively continued permit status. The figures listed are 10 pollutants under a numeric limit and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and the permit's file dates are June 9, 2007 for issuance and May 31, 2012 for expiration, with the status as of October 14, 2026.