Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0033243

BALDWIN, CITY OF (BALDWIN WPCP), Cornelia, GA: NPDES GA0033243 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
16Pollutants under a numeric limit
6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BALDWIN, CITY OF (BALDWIN WPCP), held by City of Baldwin, holds NPDES permit GA0033243. EPA’s file records it issued January 7, 2019 and expiring January 31, 2024. 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	BALDWIN, CITY OF (BALDWIN WPCP)
Permittee as filed	City of Baldwin
NPDES ID	GA0033243
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 7, 2019
Expiration date	January 31, 2024
Address	Cornelia, GA 30531
Subwatershed	Lower Brasstown Creek (HUC 060200020302)
Program components on file	POTW, Pretreatment
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

16Pollutants on file
16Under a numeric limit
12With a violation of any kind
6With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	8	227	75	May 31, 2026	652% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]	8	164	12	May 31, 2026	171% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	1	62	6	May 31, 2008	207,213% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	8	313	5	January 31, 2025	543% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	79	3	April 30, 2014	650% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	77	1	April 30, 2013	58,500% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	12	304	0
pH	2	76	0
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	39	0
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	39	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	38	0
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	1	38	0
Nitrogen, organic total [as N]	1	0	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	1	0	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	1	0	0
Phosphate, ortho [as P]	1	0	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 GA0033243.

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 the NPDES GA0033243 discharge permit held by City of Baldwin for the BALDWIN, CITY OF (BALDWIN WPCP) facility in Cornelia, GA, which is listed as administratively continued after its January 31, 2024 expiration date. The page lists a permit class of Minor, 6 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 16 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit issued January 7, 2019 and the facility located in the Lower Brasstown Creek subwatershed (HUC 060200020302).