Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0025631

ELBERTON, CITY OF (FORTSON CREEK WPCP), Elberton, GA: NPDES GA0025631 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
11Pollutants under a numeric limit
7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

ELBERTON, CITY OF (FORTSON CREEK WPCP), held by Elberton, City of, holds NPDES permit GA0025631. EPA’s file records it issued July 28, 2015 and expiring July 31, 2020. 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	ELBERTON, CITY OF (FORTSON CREEK WPCP)
Permittee as filed	Elberton, City of
NPDES ID	GA0025631
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	July 28, 2015
Expiration date	July 31, 2020
Address	Elberton, GA 30635
Subwatershed	Millstone Creek-Broad River (HUC 030601040602)
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

11Pollutants on file
11Under a numeric limit
11With a violation of any kind
7With 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	133	55	September 30, 2024	73% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	8	330	34	November 30, 2010	685% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	8	329	32	October 31, 2009	500% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	83	28	November 30, 2002	360% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	73	19	May 31, 2003	99,999% over the limit
pH	2	88	13	April 30, 1997
Coliform, fecal general	2	85	9	August 31, 2002	450% over the limit
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	1	49	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	48	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	38	0
Chlorine, total residual	3	11	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 GA0025631.

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 the NPDES discharge permit GA0025631 held by Elberton, City of for the ELBERTON, CITY OF (FORTSON CREEK WPCP) facility, a publicly owned treatment works classed as a minor discharger and administratively continued. The page lists 11 pollutants under a numeric limit and 7 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, within the Millstone Creek-Broad River subwatershed (HUC 030601040602).