Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0021733

UNIFIED GOVERNMENT OF ATHENS-CLARKE COUNTY (MIDDLE OCONEE WRF), Athens, GA: NPDES GA0021733 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
17Pollutants under a numeric limit
11Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

UNIFIED GOVERNMENT OF ATHENS-CLARKE COUNTY (MIDDLE OCONEE WRF), held by Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County, holds NPDES permit GA0021733. EPA’s file records it issued June 17, 2019 and expiring June 30, 2024. 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	UNIFIED GOVERNMENT OF ATHENS-CLARKE COUNTY (MIDDLE OCONEE WRF)
Permittee as filed	Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County
NPDES ID	GA0021733
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Major discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	June 17, 2019
Expiration date	June 30, 2024
Address	Athens, GA 30606
Subwatershed	Millstone Creek-Broad River (HUC 030601040602)
Program components on file	POTW, Pretreatment
NAICS	221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC	4952 – Sewerage Systems

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

19Pollutants on file
17Under a numeric limit
14With a violation of any kind
11With 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
Solids, total suspended	8	21	21	January 31, 2010	597% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	21	20	January 31, 2010	32% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	14	14	June 30, 2001	507% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	8	10	10	March 31, 2003	517% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	8	8	April 30, 1990	73% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	18	6	August 31, 2002	99,999% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]	4	7	5	October 31, 2013	93% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	4	4	October 31, 1997	100% over the limit
pH	2	4	4	March 31, 2009
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	2	2	August 31, 1996	8% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	0	2	2	May 31, 2008	1,733% over the limit
NOEL Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia	1	2	0
Noel Statre 7Day Chronic Pimephales	1	2	0
Mercury, total recoverable	0	1	0
Nitrogen, organic total [as N]	1	0	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	1	0	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	1	0	0
Phosphate, ortho [as P]	1	0	0
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	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 GA0021733.

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 NPDES permit GA0021733, held by the Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County for its Middle Oconee WRF, a publicly owned treatment works in Athens, GA, and is listed as administratively continued after its June 30, 2024 expiration. The page lists 17 pollutants under a numeric limit and 11 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, within the Millstone Creek-Broad River subwatershed (HUC 030601040602).