Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0037508

VULCAN MATERIALS CO., LLC (DAHLONEGA QUARRY), Dahlonega, GA: NPDES GA0037508 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
3Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

VULCAN MATERIALS CO., LLC (DAHLONEGA QUARRY), held by Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC (Dahlonega), holds NPDES permit GA0037508. EPA’s file records it issued April 30, 2010 and expiring March 31, 2015. 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	VULCAN MATERIALS CO., LLC (DAHLONEGA QUARRY)
Permittee as filed	Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC (Dahlonega)
NPDES ID	GA0037508
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	April 30, 2010
Expiration date	March 31, 2015
Address	Dahlonega, GA 30533
Subwatershed	Long Branch-Chestatee River (HUC 031300010604)
NAICS	212313 – Crushed and Broken Granite Mining and Quarrying
SIC	1423 – Crushed And Broken Granite
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	ICIS-AIR source GA0000001318700010

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

10Pollutants on file
3Under a numeric limit
10With a violation of any kind
2With 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
pH	2	159	3	November 30, 2010
Solids, total suspended	2	160	1	August 31, 2008	18% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	100	0
Oil & Grease	0	10	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	0	10	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	0	10	0
Rainfall	0	10	0
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	0	10	0
Turbidity	0	8	0
Turbidity, change	0	5	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 GA0037508.

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 GA0037508, held by Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC (Dahlonega) for VULCAN MATERIALS CO., LLC (DAHLONEGA QUARRY) in Dahlonega, GA, with a status of administratively continued and a discharger class of 3. The page lists 2 pollutants under a numeric limit and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it gives the permit's issue and expiration dates as April 30, 2010 and March 31, 2015.