Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0032981

THIELE KAOLIN CO-HOBBS MINE, Stapleton, GA: NPDES GA0032981 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

EffectivePermit status
MinorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

THIELE KAOLIN CO-HOBBS MINE, held by Theile Kaolin Company, holds NPDES permit GA0032981. EPA’s file records it issued November 15, 2018 and expiring May 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	THIELE KAOLIN CO-HOBBS MINE
Permittee as filed	Theile Kaolin Company
NPDES ID	GA0032981
Permit status	Effective
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	November 15, 2018
Expiration date	May 31, 2022
Address	Stapleton, GA 30823
Subwatershed	Reedy Creek (HUC 030601080204)
NAICS	212324 – Kaolin and Ball Clay Mining
SIC	1455 – Kaolin And Ball Clay
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler GAD006926398; ICIS-AIR source GA0000001330300006

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

13Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
5With 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
pH	12	22
Turbidity	10	22
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	10	22
Nitrogen, organic total [as N]	2	2
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	0	1
Phosphorus, total [as P]	14	0
Solids, total suspended	10	0
Oil & Grease	10	0
Cadmium, total [as Cd]	8	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	6	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	0
Nitrogen, total Kjeldahl	2	0
Phosphorus, ortho	2	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES GA0032981.

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 GA0032981.

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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit GA0032981 for the THIELE KAOLIN CO-HOBBS MINE in Stapleton, GA, held by Theile Kaolin Company, which EPA's file records as issued November 15, 2018 and expiring May 31, 2022. The page lists a permit status of Effective, a Minor Discharger class of 12, and 0 pollutants under a numeric limit, with 0 pollutants showing an effluent exceedance.