Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GAG640055

BUFORD, CITY OF (BUFORD WTP), Buford, GA: NPDES GAG640055 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BUFORD, CITY OF (BUFORD WTP), held by City of Buford, holds NPDES permit GAG640055. 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	BUFORD, CITY OF (BUFORD WTP)
Permittee as filed	City of Buford
NPDES ID	GAG640055
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	Buford, GA 30518
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Little Suwanee Creek-Yellow River (HUC 030701030301)
NAICS	562219 – Other Nonhazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal
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	176
Solids, total suspended	2	176
Iron, total recoverable	2	176
Aluminum, total recoverable	2	176
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	176
Chlorine, total residual	2	88
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	1	88
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	74
E. coli	2	74

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES GAG640055.

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 GAG640055.

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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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act NPDES discharge permit GAG640055 for BUFORD, CITY OF (BUFORD WTP) in Buford, GA, held by City of Buford, with a Minor Discharger class and an administratively continued status. The page lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit recorded as issued December 31, 2020 and expiring December 31, 2025, and the facility is cited to the Little Suwanee Creek-Yellow River subwatershed (HUC 030701030301).