Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0020702

BARTOW COUNTY WATER DEPARTMENT (TWO RUN CREEK WPCP), Cartersville, GA: NPDES GA0020702 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

EffectivePermit status
MinorDischarger class
20Pollutants under a numeric limit
9Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BARTOW COUNTY WATER DEPARTMENT (TWO RUN CREEK WPCP), held by Bartow County Water and Sewer Department, holds NPDES permit GA0020702. EPA’s file records it issued September 1, 2017 and expiring August 31, 2022. 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	BARTOW COUNTY WATER DEPARTMENT (TWO RUN CREEK WPCP)
Permittee as filed	Bartow County Water and Sewer Department
NPDES ID	GA0020702
Permit status	Effective
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	September 1, 2017
Expiration date	August 31, 2022
Address	Cartersville, GA 30121
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Upper Euharlee Creek (HUC 031501041404)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

23Pollutants on file
20Under a numeric limit
19With a violation of any kind
9With 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
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	117	33	July 31, 2023	731% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	65	23	March 31, 2026	99,999% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	43	18	October 31, 2019	182% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	89	13	November 30, 2024	244% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	8	374	11	October 31, 2019	202% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	8	357	4	December 31, 2015	291% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	28	4	February 29, 2020	40% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	44	2	March 31, 2017	18% over the limit
pH	2	85	1	April 30, 1989
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	7	90	0
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	1	61	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	2	24	0
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	0	17	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	2	16	0
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as NO3]	0	14	0
Nitrogen, nitrite total [as NO2]	0	14	0
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]	2	12	0
Nitrogen, organic total [as N]	1	8	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	1	6	0
Phosphate, ortho [as P]	2	0	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	1	0	0
Chlorine, total residual	1	0	0
Temperature Increase Deg. F	1	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 GA0020702.

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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This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit GA0020702 for Bartow County Water Department (Two Run Creek WPCP) in Cartersville, GA, a Minor discharger class publicly owned treatment works held by Bartow County Water and Sewer Department. The permit status is listed as Effective, with issue and expiration dates as recorded in EPA's file, and the receiving water appears as 303(D) Listed in the Upper Euharlee Creek subwatershed (HUC 031501041404). The page lists 23 pollutants on file, 20 of them under a numeric limit, with 9 pollutants showing an effluent exceedance.