Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GAG640006

BANKS COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS (MOUNTAIN CREEK WTP), Alto, GA: NPDES GAG640006 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

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

BANKS COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS (MOUNTAIN CREEK WTP), held by Banks County Public Utilities, holds NPDES permit GAG640006. EPA’s file records it issued December 31, 2020 and expiring December 31, 2025. 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	BANKS COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS (MOUNTAIN CREEK WTP)
Permittee as filed	Banks County Public Utilities
NPDES ID	GAG640006
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	December 31, 2020
Expiration date	December 31, 2025
Address	Alto, GA 30510
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Little Suwanee Creek-Yellow River (HUC 030701030301)
NAICS	221310 – Water Supply and Irrigation Systems
SIC	4941 – Water Supply

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

9Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
9With 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
pH	2	38
Solids, total suspended	2	38
Iron, total recoverable	2	38
Aluminum, total recoverable	2	38
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	38
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	1	20
Chlorine, total residual	2	19
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	4
Coliform, fecal general	2	4

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES GAG640006.

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 GAG640006.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES GAG640006.

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
January 14, 2026	Phone Call/ EMAIL	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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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This NPDES permit record covers GAG640006, held by Banks County Public Utilities for the Banks County Board of Commissioners (Mountain Creek WTP) in Alto, GA, a publicly owned treatment works classed as a minor discharger, with a status of administratively continued. The page lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and gives the issue date as December 31, 2020 and the expiration date as December 31, 2025. The receiving water is listed as impaired, in subwatershed HUC 030701030301.