Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0039381

KENTUCKY-TENNESSEE CLAY COMPANY/IMERYS (SHADY DALE MINE), Shady Dale, GA: NPDES GA0039381 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
5Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

KENTUCKY-TENNESSEE CLAY COMPANY/IMERYS (SHADY DALE MINE), held by Kentucky - Tennessee Clay Company/IMERYS, holds NPDES permit GA0039381. EPA’s file records it issued June 16, 2011 and expiring June 15, 2016. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	KENTUCKY-TENNESSEE CLAY COMPANY/IMERYS (SHADY DALE MINE)
Permittee as filed	Kentucky - Tennessee Clay Company/IMERYS
NPDES ID	GA0039381
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 16, 2011
Expiration date	June 15, 2016
Address	Shady Dale, GA 31085
Subwatershed	White Oak Creek-Murder Creek (HUC 030701011605)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

8Pollutants on file
5Under a numeric limit
8With a violation of any kind
0With 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
pH	4	60
Solids, total suspended	4	60
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	60
Turbidity	4	54
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	2	23
Phosphorus, total [as P]	0	12
Rainfall	0	6
Turbidity, change	0	6

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES GA0039381.

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 GA0039381.

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 GA0039381, held by Kentucky - Tennessee Clay Company/IMERYS for the Shady Dale Mine in Shady Dale, GA, within the White Oak Creek-Murder Creek subwatershed (HUC 030701011605). The page lists the permit as administratively continued, with an issue date of June 16, 2011, an expiration date of June 15, 2016, 8 pollutants on file, 5 of them under a numeric limit, and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.