Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0038067

OGLETHORPE POWER CORPORATION (SEWELL CREEK ENERGY FACILITY), Cedartown, GA: NPDES GA0038067 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
5Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

OGLETHORPE POWER CORPORATION (SEWELL CREEK ENERGY FACILITY), held by Oglethorpe Power Corporation, holds NPDES permit GA0038067. EPA’s file records it issued June 10, 2015 and expiring June 30, 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	OGLETHORPE POWER CORPORATION (SEWELL CREEK ENERGY FACILITY)
Permittee as filed	Oglethorpe Power Corporation
NPDES ID	GA0038067
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	June 10, 2015
Expiration date	June 30, 2020
Address	Cedartown, GA 30125
Subwatershed	Upper Euharlee Creek (HUC 031501041404)
NAICS	221112 – Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation
SIC	4911 – Electric Services
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler GAR000033126; ICIS-AIR source GA0000001323300042

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

6Pollutants on file
5Under a numeric limit
6With 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
Solids, total suspended	2	102	2	October 31, 2025	6% over the limit
pH	2	51	1	March 31, 2020
Oil & Grease	2	100	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	50	0
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	1	30	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	0	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 GA0038067.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This page covers NPDES permit GA0038067, held by Oglethorpe Power Corporation for the Sewell Creek Energy Facility in Cedartown, GA, with the status recorded as administratively continued. The register lists a permit status of Minor discharger class 5, with 2 pollutants under a numeric limit and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.