Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0046701

BLUEGRASS MATERIALS COMPANY, LLC (BALL GROUND QUARRY), Ball Ground, GA: NPDES GA0046701 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

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

BLUEGRASS MATERIALS COMPANY, LLC (BALL GROUND QUARRY), held by LAFARGE AGGREGATE - BALL GROUND QUARRY, holds NPDES permit GA0046701, which discharges to Long Swamp Crk-Coosa Rb. EPA’s file records it issued October 31, 2007 and expiring September 30, 2012. 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	BLUEGRASS MATERIALS COMPANY, LLC (BALL GROUND QUARRY)
Permittee as filed	LAFARGE AGGREGATE - BALL GROUND QUARRY
NPDES ID	GA0046701
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	October 31, 2007
Expiration date	September 30, 2012
Issuing agency	GA DNR
Address	Ball Ground, GA 30107
Receiving water	LONG SWAMP CRK-COOSA RB
Subwatershed	Fourmile Creek-Long Swamp Creek (HUC 031501040404)
SIC	3281 – Cut Stone And Stone Products

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

Effluent limits and exceedances

4Pollutants on file
3Under a numeric limit
4With 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
Solids, total suspended	6	152
pH	6	146
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	6	146
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	0	6

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES GA0046701.

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 GA0046701.

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

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit GA0046701 for Bluegrass Materials Company, LLC (Ball Ground Quarry) in Ball Ground, GA, which is administratively continued and classed as a Minor Discharger class 3, with 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. The permit was issued October 31, 2007 and expired September 30, 2012, and the status is as EPA's permit file stood when the page was loaded on October 14, 2026.