Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0025593

SPARTA, CITY OF, Sparta, GA: NPDES GA0025593 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
0Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SPARTA, CITY OF, held by SPARTA WPCP, holds NPDES permit GA0025593, which discharges to Unnamed Tributary To Buffalo Creek. EPA’s file records it issued April 4, 2003 and expiring December 16, 2006. 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	SPARTA, CITY OF
Permittee as filed	SPARTA WPCP
NPDES ID	GA0025593
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	April 4, 2003
Expiration date	December 16, 2006
Issuing agency	GA DNR
Address	Sparta, GA 31087
Receiving water	UNNAMED TRIBUTARY TO BUFFALO CREEK
Subwatershed	Pinkston Creek-Buffalo Creek (HUC 030701020301)
Program components on file	POTW, Pretreatment
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

10Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
10With a violation of any kind
0With 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
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	0	1,562	0
Solids, total suspended	0	1,562	0
pH	0	690	0
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]	0	403	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	0	376	0
Coliform, fecal general	0	310	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	0	155	0
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	0	93	0
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	0	48	0
Solids, suspended percent removal	0	48	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES GA0025593.

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 GA0025593.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

The SPARTA, CITY OF permit (NPDES ID GA0025593) is one of 2 publicly owned treatment works permits on EPA's NPDES register in Hancock County, Georgia, this one included. It is also one of 2 NPDES permits in the Pinkston Creek-Buffalo Creek subwatershed (HUC 030701020301). The permit lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.