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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0048674

MCRAE-HELENA, CITY OF (MCRAE-HELENA WPCP), Mcrae-Helena, GA: NPDES GA0048674 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

MCRAE-HELENA, CITY OF (MCRAE-HELENA WPCP), held by McRae - Helena, City of, holds NPDES permit GA0048674. EPA’s file records it issued June 26, 2017 and expiring June 30, 2022. 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 filedMCRAE-HELENA, CITY OF (MCRAE-HELENA WPCP)
Permittee as filedMcRae - Helena, City of
NPDES IDGA0048674
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedJune 26, 2017
Expiration dateJune 30, 2022
AddressMcrae-Helena, GA 31037
SubwatershedUpper Turnpike Creek (HUC 030701050302)
NAICS221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC4952 – Sewerage Systems

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

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Stream flow, instantaneous1128105July 31, 2016409,233% over the limit
Streamflow04032April 30, 2016533,233% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general212110January 31, 2015700% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal13010March 31, 2020133% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C81,0972November 30, 202120% over the limit
pH21102June 30, 2015
E. coli022June 30, 20261,475% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]1551May 31, 2011100% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, percent removal1211February 29, 200893% over the limit
Solids, total suspended81,0960
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant22720
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight1270
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]220
Nitrogen, organic total [as N]110
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]110
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]110
Phosphorus, total [as P]110
Phosphate, ortho [as P]110

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES GA0048674.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit GA0048674 for MCRAE-HELENA, CITY OF (MCRAE-HELENA WPCP) in Mcrae-Helena, GA, a publicly owned treatment works classed as a minor discharger, listed as administratively continued. The page lists 16 pollutants under a numeric limit and 9 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, within the Upper Turnpike Creek subwatershed (HUC 030701050302).