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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0022659

ROCKDALE COUNTY WATER RESOURCES (HONEY CREEK WPCP), Conyers, GA: NPDES GA0022659 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

ROCKDALE COUNTY WATER RESOURCES (HONEY CREEK WPCP), held by Rockdale County Water Resources, holds NPDES permit GA0022659. EPA’s file records it issued October 25, 2017 and expiring November 30, 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 filedROCKDALE COUNTY WATER RESOURCES (HONEY CREEK WPCP)
Permittee as filedRockdale County Water Resources
NPDES IDGA0022659
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedOctober 25, 2017
Expiration dateNovember 30, 2022
AddressConyers, GA 30207
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedLittle Suwanee Creek-Yellow River (HUC 030701030301)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant2639March 31, 202084% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]41051March 31, 202013% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual2701February 28, 2015400% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general2551September 30, 201490% over the limit
Solids, total suspended82090
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C82080
Phosphorus, total [as P]41080
pH2520
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight1280
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]1270
BOD, 5-day, percent removal1270
Solids, suspended percent removal1270
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]110
NOEL Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia110
Noel Statre 7Day Chronic Pimephales110
Nitrogen, organic total [as N]100
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]100
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]100
Copper, total recoverable100
Phosphate, ortho [as P]100

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES GA0022659.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit GA0022659, held by Rockdale County Water Resources for the Honey Creek WPCP in Conyers, GA, and lists its status as administratively continued after an expiration date of November 30, 2022. The page reports 20 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit's receiving water falling in the Little Suwanee Creek-Yellow River subwatershed (HUC 030701030301).