Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0032263

EATONTON - PUTNAM WATER & SEWER AUTHORITY (WESTSIDE WPCP), Eatonton, GA: NPDES GA0032263 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
18Pollutants under a numeric limit
10Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

EATONTON - PUTNAM WATER & SEWER AUTHORITY (WESTSIDE WPCP), held by Eatonton - Putnam Water & Sewer Authority, holds NPDES permit GA0032263. EPA’s file records it issued October 10, 2017 and expiring October 31, 2022. 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	EATONTON - PUTNAM WATER & SEWER AUTHORITY (WESTSIDE WPCP)
Permittee as filed	Eatonton - Putnam Water & Sewer Authority
NPDES ID	GA0032263
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	October 10, 2017
Expiration date	October 31, 2022
Address	Eatonton, GA 31024
Subwatershed	Deepstep Creek-Buffalo Creek (HUC 030701020305)
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
18Under a numeric limit
18With a violation of any kind
10With 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
Chlorine, total residual	1	84	28	July 31, 2020	1,054% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	123	17	October 31, 2013	33,958% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	8	436	10	September 30, 1994	940% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	63	9	December 31, 2019	387% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	224	8	February 28, 2026	317% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	8	429	4	February 28, 1998	57% over the limit
pH	2	111	4	December 31, 2017
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	59	4	January 31, 2020	393% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	57	4	May 31, 2018	100% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	113	3	September 30, 2018	99,999% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	107	0
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	1	24	0
Nitrogen, organic total [as N]	2	2	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	2	2	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	2	0
Phosphate, ortho [as P]	2	2	0
NOEL Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia	1	2	0
Noel Statre 7Day Chronic Pimephales	1	2	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 GA0032263.

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 GA0032263, held by Eatonton - Putnam Water & Sewer Authority for the Westside WPCP facility in Eatonton, GA, with a status of administratively continued. The register lists 18 pollutants under a numeric limit and 10 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, as of October 14, 2026.