Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GAP050073

PILGRIM'S PRIDE CORPORATION, Elberton, GA: NPDES GAP050073 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
7Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

PILGRIM'S PRIDE CORPORATION, held by Pilgrim's Pride Corporation, holds NPDES permit GAP050073. EPA’s file records it issued October 14, 2016 and expiring October 31, 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	PILGRIM'S PRIDE CORPORATION
Permittee as filed	Pilgrim's Pride Corporation
NPDES ID	GAP050073
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual industrial user permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	October 14, 2016
Expiration date	October 31, 2021
Address	Elberton, GA 30635
NAICS	311615 – Poultry Processing
SIC	2015 – Poultry Slaughtering And Processing
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler GAR000094037; ICIS-AIR source GA0000001310500048

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

8Pollutants on file
7Under a numeric limit
7With a violation of any kind
5With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	235	23	May 31, 2024	400% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	222	10	May 31, 2019	92% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	217	5	March 31, 2022	182% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	110	4	October 31, 2024	7% over the limit
pH	2	107	1	January 31, 2017
Oil & Grease	4	212	0
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]	0	212	0
Chemical oxygen demand [COD]	2	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 GAP050073.

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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Nearby on the register

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

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES GAP050073, held by Pilgrim's Pride Corporation of Elberton, GA, with a status of administratively continued. The figures listed are 7 for the discharger class and 5 for pollutants under a numeric limit, with 5 pollutants showing an effluent exceedance.