Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0021563

SPARKS, CITY OF (SPARKS WPCP), Sparks, GA: NPDES GA0021563 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
15Pollutants under a numeric limit
7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SPARKS, CITY OF (SPARKS WPCP), held by Sparks, City of, holds NPDES permit GA0021563. EPA’s file records it issued September 9, 2016 and expiring September 30, 2021. 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	SPARKS, CITY OF (SPARKS WPCP)
Permittee as filed	Sparks, City of
NPDES ID	GA0021563
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	September 9, 2016
Expiration date	September 30, 2021
Address	Sparks, GA 31647
Subwatershed	Dixon Mill Creek-Alapaha River (HUC 031102021201)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

17Pollutants on file
15Under a numeric limit
17With a violation of any kind
7With 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	58	41	June 30, 2026	85% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	21	5	May 31, 2013	99,999% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	8	75	3	April 30, 2024	20% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	8	73	1	March 31, 2013	60% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	33	1	June 30, 2008	8% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	15	1	March 31, 2011	5% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	9	1	May 31, 2021	57% over the limit
pH	2	18	0
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	14	0
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	1	5	0
Nitrogen, organic total [as N]	1	2	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	1	2	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	1	2	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	1	2	0
Phosphate, ortho [as P]	1	2	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	0	1	0
Mercury, total recoverable	0	1	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 GA0021563.

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 discharge permit GA0021563 for SPARKS, CITY OF (SPARKS WPCP) in Sparks, GA, held by Sparks, City of, with a permit status of administratively continued and a discharger class of Minor. The facts list 15 pollutants under a numeric limit and 7 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, out of 17 pollutants on file, within the Dixon Mill Creek-Alapaha River subwatershed (HUC 031102021201).