Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0050247

SOUTHERN IONICS MINERALS, LLC (MINERAL SAND PLANT), Patterson, GA: NPDES GA0050247 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
0Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

SOUTHERN IONICS MINERALS, LLC (MINERAL SAND PLANT), held by Southern Ionics Minerals, LLC, holds NPDES permit GA0050247. EPA’s file records it issued June 8, 2018 and expiring June 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	SOUTHERN IONICS MINERALS, LLC (MINERAL SAND PLANT)
Permittee as filed	Southern Ionics Minerals, LLC
NPDES ID	GA0050247
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	June 8, 2018
Expiration date	June 30, 2021
Address	Patterson, GA 31557
Subwatershed	Lower Buffalo Creek (HUC 030702011104)
NAICS	212299 – All Other Metal Ore Mining
SIC	1099 – Metal Ores
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	ICIS-AIR source GA0000001322900014

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

9Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
5With a violation of any kind
3With 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
Solids, total suspended	2	11	11	April 30, 2018	450% over the limit
pH	2	2	2	October 31, 2019
Selenium, total [as Se]	6	1	1	June 30, 2021	40% over the limit
NOEL Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia	1	3	0
Noel Statre 7Day Chronic Pimephales	1	3	0
Turbidity	2	0	0
Zinc, total [as Zn]	2	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	0	0
Turbidity, change	1	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 GA0050247.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES GA0050247.

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

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES GA0050247.

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 NPDES GA0050247, held by Southern Ionics Minerals, LLC for the Southern Ionics Minerals, LLC (Mineral Sand Plant) facility in Patterson, GA, in the Lower Buffalo Creek subwatershed (HUC 030702011104). The permit is listed as administratively continued, is classed as a Minor Discharger, and has 9 pollutants under a numeric limit, 3 of which show an effluent exceedance. The status and dates reflect EPA's permit file as loaded on October 14, 2026.