Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0037486

ERGON ASPHALT PARTNERS, LP ? BAINBRIDGE, Bainbridge, GA: NPDES GA0037486 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

ERGON ASPHALT PARTNERS, LP ? BAINBRIDGE, held by BKEP Materials, LLC, holds NPDES permit GA0037486. EPA’s file records it issued March 27, 2015 and expiring March 31, 2020. 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	ERGON ASPHALT PARTNERS, LP ? BAINBRIDGE
Permittee as filed	BKEP Materials, LLC
NPDES ID	GA0037486
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	March 27, 2015
Expiration date	March 31, 2020
Address	Bainbridge, GA 39817
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Irwin Mill Creek-Chattahoochee River (HUC 031300040801)
NAICS	324121 – Asphalt Paving Mixture and Block Manufacturing
SIC	5171 – Petroleum Bulk Stations & Terminals
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	ICIS-AIR source GA0000001308700016

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

9Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
9With a violation of any kind
4With 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
Copper, total [as Cu]	0	39	35	July 31, 2026	982% over the limit
Oil & Grease	32	124	20	June 30, 2025	88% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	16	21	13	July 31, 2026	300% over the limit
Turbidity	16	12	4	June 30, 2026
pH	16	8	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	16	8	0
BOD, 5-day	4	2	0
Chemical oxygen demand [COD]	4	2	0
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	2	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 GA0037486.

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 Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES GA0037486 for ERGON ASPHALT PARTNERS, LP, BAINBRIDGE in Bainbridge, GA, held by BKEP Materials, LLC, which is administratively continued and past its March 31, 2020 expiration date. The page lists a Minor discharger class of 8 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, within subwatershed HUC 031300040801.