Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GAJ010333

SANDERSON FARMS, INC., Moultrie, GA: NPDES GAJ010333 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
16Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SANDERSON FARMS, INC., held by Sanderson Farms, Inc., holds NPDES permit GAJ010333. EPA’s file records it issued April 30, 2014 and expiring April 30, 2019. 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.

What the register holds for SANDERSON FARMS, INC.: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Moultrie, Georgia, and 16 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES GAJ010333.

Identity

Facility as filed	SANDERSON FARMS, INC.
Permittee as filed	Sanderson Farms, Inc.
NPDES ID	GAJ010333
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	State-issued individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	April 30, 2014
Expiration date	April 30, 2019
Address	Moultrie, GA 31788
Subwatershed	Lower Little Ochlockonee Creek (HUC 031200020405)
SIC	2015 – Poultry Slaughtering And Processing
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	ICIS-AIR source GA0000001307100064

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

16Pollutants on file
16Under a numeric limit
0With 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	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
pH	64	0	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	32	0	0
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]	26	0	0
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]	26	0	0
Depth to water level ft below landsurface	26	0	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	6	0	0
Nitrite Plus Nitrate Total	6	0	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	0	0
Spray irrigation, application rate	4	0	0
BOD, 5-day	2	0	0
Oil & Grease	2	0	0
Nitrogen, total	2	0	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	2	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	0	0
Solids, total suspended, loading rate	2	0	0
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	2	0	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES GAJ010333.

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 GAJ010333.

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 Clean Water Act NPDES discharge permit GAJ010333, held by SANDERSON FARMS, INC. of Moultrie, GA, with a permit status of Administratively continued and a Minor Discharger class. The register lists 16 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit issued April 30, 2014 and expiring April 30, 2019.