Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0026174

BUFORD TROUT HATCHERY, Cumming, GA: NPDES GA0026174 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
10Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
0Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

BUFORD TROUT HATCHERY, held by State of GA Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resource Division, holds NPDES permit GA0026174. EPA’s file records it issued August 22, 2018 and expiring August 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	BUFORD TROUT HATCHERY
Permittee as filed	State of GA Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resource Division
NPDES ID	GA0026174
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	August 22, 2018
Expiration date	August 31, 2023
Address	Cumming, GA 30041
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Little Suwanee Creek-Yellow River (HUC 030701030301)
NAICS	112511 – Finfish Farming and Fish Hatcheries
SIC	0921 – Fish Hatcheries And Preserves

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

12Pollutants on file
10Under a numeric limit
6With 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
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	6	156
pH	2	86
Solids, total suspended	2	86
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	64
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	0	32
Solids, settleable	0	13
Nitrogen, organic total [as N]	2	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	2	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	0
Phosphate, ortho [as P]	2	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES GA0026174.

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 GA0026174.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES GA0026174.

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES GA0026174.

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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES GA0026174 for the Buford Trout Hatchery in Cumming, GA, held by the State of GA Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resource Division, and shows the permit as administratively continued with a Minor Discharger class of 10. The page lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit recorded as issued August 22, 2018 and expiring August 31, 2023, within the Little Suwanee Creek-Yellow River subwatershed (HUC 030701030301).