Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0025682

ELBERTON, CITY OF (FALLING CREEK WPCP), Elberton, GA: NPDES GA0025682 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
11Pollutants under a numeric limit
9Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

ELBERTON, CITY OF (FALLING CREEK WPCP), held by Elberton, City of, holds NPDES permit GA0025682. EPA’s file records it issued July 21, 2015 and expiring July 31, 2020. 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	ELBERTON, CITY OF (FALLING CREEK WPCP)
Permittee as filed	Elberton, City of
NPDES ID	GA0025682
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 21, 2015
Expiration date	July 31, 2020
Address	Elberton, GA 30635
Subwatershed	Millstone Creek-Broad River (HUC 030601040602)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

12Pollutants on file
11Under a numeric limit
12With a violation of any kind
9With 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	109	35	June 30, 2025	40% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	76	24	May 31, 2003	87% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	20	323	19	November 30, 2011	360% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	8	324	15	October 31, 2013	519% over the limit
pH	2	83	7	May 31, 2003
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	44	6	July 31, 2010	70% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	79	5	May 31, 2012	625% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	58	5	November 30, 2011	47% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	28	149	1	August 31, 1989	5% over the limit
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]	0	108	0
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	1	27	0
Chlorine, total residual	3	13	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 GA0025682.

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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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit GA0025682 held by Elberton, City of for the Elberton (Falling Creek WPCP) facility, a publicly owned treatment works classed as a minor discharger, with the permit administratively continued after its July 31, 2020 expiration. The page lists 12 pollutants on file, 11 under a numeric limit, 12 with a violation of any kind, and 9 with an effluent exceedance.