Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0025895

RUTLEDGE, CITY OF (RUTLEDGE WPCP), Rutledge, GA: NPDES GA0025895 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
16Pollutants under a numeric limit
9Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

RUTLEDGE, CITY OF (RUTLEDGE WPCP), held by Rutledge, City of, holds NPDES permit GA0025895. EPA’s file records it issued January 23, 2018 and expiring January 31, 2023. 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	RUTLEDGE, CITY OF (RUTLEDGE WPCP)
Permittee as filed	Rutledge, City of
NPDES ID	GA0025895
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	January 23, 2018
Expiration date	January 31, 2023
Address	Rutledge, GA 30663
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Little Suwanee Creek-Yellow River (HUC 030701030301)
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
16Under a numeric limit
18With 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	4	230	21	April 30, 2017	214% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	16	863	17	December 31, 2025	143% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	2	116	15	July 31, 2026	54% over the limit
E. coli	0	16	14	July 31, 2026	99,999% over the limit
pH	4	212	8	January 31, 2015
Coliform, fecal general	4	212	8	April 30, 2013	99,999% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	9	3	February 28, 2026	77% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	2	106	2	May 31, 2025	35% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	16	849	1	July 31, 2013	1% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	2	103	0
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	2	85	0
Chlorine, total residual	2	32	0
Nitrogen, organic total [as N]	2	3	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	2	3	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	3	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	2	0
Phosphate, ortho [as P]	2	2	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	0	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 GA0025895.

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 NPDES GA0025895 for RUTLEDGE, CITY OF (RUTLEDGE WPCP) in Rutledge, GA, which is administratively continued and classed as a Minor discharger. The facts list 16 pollutants under a numeric limit and 9 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, within the Little Suwanee Creek-Yellow River (HUC 030701030301) subwatershed.