Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GAJ020157

HELEN, CITY OF (HELEN WPCP), Helen, GA: NPDES GAJ020157 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
11Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

HELEN, CITY OF (HELEN WPCP), held by City of Helen, holds NPDES permit GAJ020157. EPA’s file records it issued August 14, 2018 and expiring August 31, 2023. 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	HELEN, CITY OF (HELEN WPCP)
Permittee as filed	City of Helen
NPDES ID	GAJ020157
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	August 14, 2018
Expiration date	August 31, 2023
Address	Helen, GA 30545
Subwatershed	Lower Brasstown Creek (HUC 060200020302)
SIC	4952 – Sewerage Systems

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

11Pollutants on file
11Under a numeric limit
2With 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
Depth to water level ft below landsurface	6	6
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	1	1
pH	8	0
Specific conductance	6	0
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]	4	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	0
Coliform, fecal general	3	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	0
Solids, total suspended	2	0
Spray irrigation, application rate	2	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	1	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES GAJ020157.

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 GAJ020157.

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 discharge permit NPDES GAJ020157, held by City of Helen for the HELEN, CITY OF (HELEN WPCP) facility in Helen, GA, and lists its status as administratively continued. The page reports 11 pollutants on file, 11 under a numeric limit, 2 with a violation of any kind, and 0 with an effluent exceedance.