Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0049166

LUDOWICI, CITY OF (LUDOWICI WPCP), Ludowici, GA: NPDES GA0049166 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
16Pollutants under a numeric limit
8Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

LUDOWICI, CITY OF (LUDOWICI WPCP), held by Ludowici, City of, holds NPDES permit GA0049166. EPA’s file records it issued September 26, 2016 and expiring September 30, 2021. 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	LUDOWICI, CITY OF (LUDOWICI WPCP)
Permittee as filed	Ludowici, City of
NPDES ID	GA0049166
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	September 26, 2016
Expiration date	September 30, 2021
Address	Ludowici, GA 31316
Subwatershed	Chapel Creek (HUC 030701060304)
NAICS	221310 – Water Supply and Irrigation Systems
SIC	4952 – 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

17Pollutants on file
16Under a numeric limit
16With a violation of any kind
8With 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
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	53	46	August 31, 2024	567% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	8	101	45	July 31, 2026	3,060% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	40	30	April 30, 2020	700% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	9	30	21	July 31, 2026	91% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	8	80	20	July 31, 2017	444% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	33	19	August 31, 2025	3,287% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	0	27	5	October 31, 2010	567% over the limit
pH	8	24	2	May 31, 2012
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	7	11	0
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	1	7	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	6	6	0
Nitrogen, organic total [as N]	3	5	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	3	3	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	3	3	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	3	3	0
Phosphate, ortho [as P]	3	3	0
Chlorine, total residual	6	0	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 GA0049166.

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 NPDES permit GA0049166, held by Ludowici, City of for the LUDOWICI, CITY OF (LUDOWICI WPCP) publicly owned treatment works in Ludowici, GA, with the permit status listed as administratively continued. The facts list a Minor discharger class of 16, 8 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 8 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, all as of October 14, 2026, with the permit issued September 26, 2016 and expiring September 30, 2021. The facility is in the Chapel Creek subwatershed, HUC 030701060304.