Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0049506

GARDEN ACRES UTILITIES, INC (GARDEN ACRES ESTATES WPCP), Pooler, GA: NPDES GA0049506 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
7Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
0Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

GARDEN ACRES UTILITIES, INC (GARDEN ACRES ESTATES WPCP), held by Garden Acres Utilities, Inc., holds NPDES permit GA0049506. EPA’s file records it issued March 18, 2015 and expiring March 31, 2020. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	GARDEN ACRES UTILITIES, INC (GARDEN ACRES ESTATES WPCP)
Permittee as filed	Garden Acres Utilities, Inc.
NPDES ID	GA0049506
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 18, 2015
Expiration date	March 31, 2020
Address	Pooler, GA 31322
Subwatershed	Wilmington River (HUC 030602040101)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

14Pollutants on file
7Under a numeric limit
14With a violation of any kind
2With 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
Coliform, fecal general	2	9	2	August 31, 2015	75% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	7	1	May 31, 2012	5% over the limit
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	1	22	0
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	0	18	0
Chlorine, total residual	6	11	0
pH	2	6	0
Solids, total suspended	2	6	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	6	0
Nitrogen, organic total [as N]	0	1	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	0	1	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	0	1	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	0	1	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	0	1	0
Phosphate, ortho [as P]	0	1	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 GA0049506.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES GA0049506.

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
September 30, 2026	Notice of Noncompliance Issued	State

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 NPDES discharge permit GA0049506, held by Garden Acres Utilities, Inc. for the Garden Acres Estates WPCP in Pooler, GA, which is administratively continued and classed as a Minor Discharger. The page lists 14 pollutants on file, 7 under a numeric limit, 14 with a violation of any kind, and 2 with an effluent exceedance.