Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0046159

IMERYS PIGMENTS, INC. RAWLING-, Sandersville, GA: NPDES GA0046159 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
3Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

IMERYS PIGMENTS, INC. RAWLING-, held by IMERYS CLAYS-RAWLING TAILINGS, holds NPDES permit GA0046159, which discharges to Trib To Robinson Crk-. EPA’s file records it issued March 30, 2005 and expiring February 28, 2010. 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 PIGMENTS, INC. RAWLING-
Permittee as filed	IMERYS CLAYS-RAWLING TAILINGS
NPDES ID	GA0046159
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 30, 2005
Expiration date	February 28, 2010
Issuing agency	GA DNR
Address	Sandersville, GA 31082
Receiving water	TRIB TO ROBINSON CRK-
Subwatershed	Robinson Creek (HUC 030701020402)
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

3Pollutants on file
3Under a numeric limit
3With 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	2	120
Turbidity	2	66
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	1	60

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES GA0046159.

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 GA0046159.

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 GA0046159, held by IMERYS PIGMENTS, INC. RAWLING- and listed under permittee IMERYS CLAYS-RAWLING TAILINGS, with discharges to TRIB TO ROBINSON CRK- in the Robinson Creek subwatershed (HUC 030701020402). The permit is administratively continued as a Minor Discharger class 3 permit, with 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and EPA's file records issuance on March 30, 2005 and expiration on February 28, 2010.