Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0024147

DEKALB COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF WATERSHED MANAGEMENT (SNAPFINGER CREEK AWWTF), Decatur, GA: NPDES GA0024147 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
18Pollutants under a numeric limit
6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

DEKALB COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF WATERSHED MANAGEMENT (SNAPFINGER CREEK AWWTF), held by Dekalb County Department of Watershed Management, holds NPDES permit GA0024147. EPA’s file records it issued December 22, 2016 and expiring December 31, 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	DEKALB COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF WATERSHED MANAGEMENT (SNAPFINGER CREEK AWWTF)
Permittee as filed	Dekalb County Department of Watershed Management
NPDES ID	GA0024147
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	December 22, 2016
Expiration date	December 31, 2021
Address	Decatur, GA 30034
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Little Suwanee Creek-Yellow River (HUC 030701030301)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

18Pollutants on file
18Under a numeric limit
6With a violation of any kind
6With 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
Phosphorus, total [as P]	8	17	17	March 31, 2025	200% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	6	5	5	March 31, 2017	900% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	32	3	3	October 31, 2018	37% over the limit
pH	4	2	1	March 31, 2015
Solids, total suspended	16	1	1	March 31, 2005	14% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	6	1	1	February 29, 2020	3% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	40	0	0
Phosphorus, ortho	4	0	0
Coliform, fecal general	4	0	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	2	0	0
Nitrogen, organic total [as N]	2	0	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	2	0	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	0	0
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	2	0	0
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	2	0	0
Solids, suspended percent removal	2	0	0
NOEL Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia	2	0	0
Noel Statre 7Day Chronic Pimephales	2	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 GA0024147.

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 GA0024147, held by Dekalb County Department of Watershed Management for the Snapfinger Creek AWWTF in Decatur, GA, and lists its status as administratively continued. The permit is recorded with 18 pollutants under a numeric limit and 6 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.