Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0045934

IMERYS CLAYS INC. (DEEPSTEP ROAD PLANT - FRANKLIN OPERATIONS), Deepstep, GA: NPDES GA0045934 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
10Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

IMERYS CLAYS INC. (DEEPSTEP ROAD PLANT - FRANKLIN OPERATIONS), held by Imerys Clays Inc., holds NPDES permit GA0045934. EPA’s file records it issued September 5, 2018 and expiring September 30, 2023. 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	IMERYS CLAYS INC. (DEEPSTEP ROAD PLANT - FRANKLIN OPERATIONS)
Permittee as filed	Imerys Clays Inc.
NPDES ID	GA0045934
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	September 5, 2018
Expiration date	September 30, 2023
Address	Deepstep, GA 31082
Subwatershed	Rosemary Creek (HUC 030602010607)
NAICS	212324 – Kaolin and Ball Clay Mining
SIC	1455 – Kaolin And Ball Clay
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler GAR000011650; ICIS-AIR source GA0000001330300008

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
10Under a numeric limit
10With 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
Solids, total suspended	172	311	53	January 31, 2026	740% over the limit
Zinc, total [as Zn]	420	566	46	January 31, 2026	308% over the limit
pH	172	471	7	January 31, 2021
Cadmium, total [as Cd]	344	516	0
Copper, total [as Cu]	344	516	0
Selenium, total [as Se]	344	516	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	172	499	0
Oil & Grease	172	258	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	172	258	0
Turbidity	2	80	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 GA0045934.

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 public-records page covers the Clean Water Act NPDES discharge permit GA0045934, held by Imerys Clays Inc. for its Deepstep Road Plant (Franklin Operations) in Deepstep, GA, and lists its status as administratively continued with a minor discharger class. The page reports 10 pollutants under a numeric limit and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and the permit's issue and expiration dates are shown as September 5, 2018 and September 30, 2023, as they stood when the file was loaded.