Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0001074

TYSON POULTRY, INC. (CUMMING COMPLEX), Cumming, GA: NPDES GA0001074 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

EffectivePermit status
MinorDischarger class
15Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

TYSON POULTRY, INC. (CUMMING COMPLEX), held by Tyson Poultry, Inc., holds NPDES permit GA0001074. EPA’s file records it issued June 14, 2018 and expiring June 30, 2023. 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	TYSON POULTRY, INC. (CUMMING COMPLEX)
Permittee as filed	Tyson Poultry, Inc.
NPDES ID	GA0001074
Permit status	Effective
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	June 14, 2018
Expiration date	June 30, 2023
Address	Cumming, GA 30040
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Little Suwanee Creek-Yellow River (HUC 030701030301)
NAICS	311615 – Poultry Processing
SIC	2015 – Poultry Slaughtering And Processing
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler GAR000035782; ICIS-AIR source GA0000001311700008

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

17Pollutants on file
15Under a numeric limit
14With a violation of any kind
5With 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]	4	100	12	September 30, 2015	435% over the limit
Oil & Grease	2	175	2	June 30, 2017	29% over the limit
pH	2	147	1	February 28, 2014
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	74	1	April 30, 2015	13% over the limit
Fecal coliform, MPN, EC med, 44.5 C	0	62	1	November 30, 2012	30% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	8	171	0
Solids, total suspended	4	171	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	114	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	73	0
Chlorine, total residual	1	73	0
Copper, total [as Cu]	0	69	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	2	28	0
Coliform, fecal general	2	13	0
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	1	2	0
Nitrogen, organic total [as N]	2	0	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	2	0	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	0	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 GA0001074.

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 public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit GA0001074, held by Tyson Poultry, Inc. (Cumming Complex) in Cumming, GA, with a status of Effective and a Minor discharger class. The facts list 15 pollutants under a numeric limit and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and show the permit issued June 14, 2018 and expired June 30, 2023 as recorded when the file was loaded on October 14, 2026.