Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0024074

CEDARTOWN, CITY OF (CEDARTOWN WPCP), Cedartown, GA: NPDES GA0024074 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
18Pollutants under a numeric limit
10Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
2Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

CEDARTOWN, CITY OF (CEDARTOWN WPCP), held by Cedartown, City of, holds NPDES permit GA0024074. EPA’s file records it issued January 28, 2016 and expiring January 31, 2021. 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	CEDARTOWN, CITY OF (CEDARTOWN WPCP)
Permittee as filed	Cedartown, City of
NPDES ID	GA0024074
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	January 28, 2016
Expiration date	January 31, 2021
Address	Cedartown, GA 30125
Subwatershed	Upper Euharlee Creek (HUC 031501041404)
Program components on file	Biosolids, 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

18Pollutants on file
18Under a numeric limit
18With a violation of any kind
10With 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	98	96	May 31, 2025	115% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	97	95	December 31, 2015	567% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	93	89	May 31, 2025	493% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	32	82	78	July 31, 2026	2,441% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]	4	47	42	September 30, 2025	295% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	24	47	39	July 31, 2025	212% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	8	42	31	October 31, 2006	659% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	26	22	June 30, 2026	3,275% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	3	9	6	March 31, 2026	900% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	5	6	5	July 31, 1995	20% over the limit
pH	2	2	0
Phosphorus, ortho	2	2	0
NOEL Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia	1	2	0
Noel Statre 7Day Chronic Pimephales	1	2	0
Nitrogen, organic total [as N]	1	1	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	1	1	0
Nitrite Plus Nitrate Total	1	1	0
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	1	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 GA0024074.

Inspections

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
August 12, 2026	Evaluation	S
August 12, 2026	Evaluation	S

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES GA0024074.

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 the NPDES GA0024074 Clean Water Act discharge permit held by Cedartown, City of for CEDARTOWN, CITY OF (CEDARTOWN WPCP) in Cedartown, GA, which is listed as administratively continued and a major discharger. The page lists 18 pollutants under a numeric limit and 10 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit recorded as issued January 28, 2016 and expiring January 31, 2021.