Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0023159

MADISON, CITY OF (NORTHSIDE WPCP), Madison, GA: NPDES GA0023159 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

MADISON, CITY OF (NORTHSIDE WPCP), held by City of Madison, holds NPDES permit GA0023159. EPA’s file records it issued September 26, 2012 and expiring September 25, 2017. 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	MADISON, CITY OF (NORTHSIDE WPCP)
Permittee as filed	City of Madison
NPDES ID	GA0023159
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 26, 2012
Expiration date	September 25, 2017
Address	Madison, GA 30650
Subwatershed	Mile Branch-Hard Labor Creek (HUC 030701010903)
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

15Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
15With 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
Solids, total suspended	8	568	8	September 30, 2017	89% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	74	3	March 31, 2018	227% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	8	569	1	January 31, 2010	30% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	141	1	November 30, 2009	9% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	2	15	1	November 30, 2014	82% over the limit
pH	2	140	0
Coliform, fecal general	2	140	0
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	71	0
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	1	12	0
Nitrogen, organic total [as N]	0	5	0
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]	0	5	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	0	5	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	0	5	0
Phosphate, ortho [as P]	0	5	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	0	2	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 GA0023159.

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 NPDES GA0023159 held by City of Madison for MADISON, CITY OF (NORTHSIDE WPCP) in Madison, GA, a publicly owned treatment works classed as a minor discharger and listed as administratively continued. The page lists 15 pollutants on file, 9 of them under a numeric limit, and 5 with an effluent exceedance. Permit status and dates reflect EPA's permit file as loaded on October 14, 2026, with an issue date of September 26, 2012 and an expiration date of September 25, 2017.