Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0034029

WHITFIELD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION (VARNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WPCP), Dalton, GA: NPDES GA0034029 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

EffectivePermit status
MinorDischarger class
7Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

WHITFIELD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION (VARNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WPCP), held by WHITFIELD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, holds NPDES permit GA0034029, which discharges to Kenyon Creek-Coosa Rb. EPA’s file records it issued July 6, 2009 and expiring July 5, 2014. 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	WHITFIELD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION (VARNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WPCP)
Permittee as filed	WHITFIELD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
NPDES ID	GA0034029
Permit status	Effective
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	July 6, 2009
Expiration date	July 5, 2014
Issuing agency	GA DNR
Address	Dalton, GA 30721
Receiving water	KENYON CREEK-COOSA RB
Subwatershed	Kenyon Creek-Coahulla Creek (HUC 031501010304)
SIC	8211 – Elementary And Secondary Schools

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

8Pollutants on file
7Under a numeric limit
8With a violation of any kind
3With 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	0	43	22	August 31, 2018	9,900% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	48	3	May 31, 2015	36% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	45	1	February 28, 2011	178% over the limit
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	1	50	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	44	0
pH	2	44	0
Solids, total suspended	2	44	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	44	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 GA0034029.

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 NPDES permit GA0034029, held by the Whitfield County Board of Education for its Varnell Elementary School wastewater treatment plant in Dalton, GA, which discharges to Kenyon Creek-Coosa Rb within the Kenyon Creek-Coahulla Creek subwatershed (HUC 031501010304). The page lists a Minor discharger class, 7 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit shown as effective, issued July 6, 2009 and expiring July 5, 2014.