Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NC0020567

YADKIN VALLEY SEWER AUTHORITY WWTP, Elkin, NC: NPDES NC0020567 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
10Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

YADKIN VALLEY SEWER AUTHORITY WWTP, held by Yadkin Valley Sewer Authority, holds NPDES permit NC0020567. EPA’s file records it issued June 17, 2020 and expiring January 31, 2024. 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	YADKIN VALLEY SEWER AUTHORITY WWTP
Permittee as filed	Yadkin Valley Sewer Authority
NPDES ID	NC0020567
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Major discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	June 17, 2020
Expiration date	January 31, 2024
Address	Elkin, NC 28621
Subwatershed	Logan Creek (HUC 030401011201)
Program components on file	Biosolids, POTW
NAICS	221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
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

10Pollutants on file
10Under a numeric limit
5With a violation of any kind
1With 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
Chlorine, total residual	1	1	1	December 31, 2018	79% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	3	35	0
Solids, total suspended	3	35	0
Coliform, fecal MF, MFC broth, 44.5 C	2	12	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	1	5	0
pH	2	0	0
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	1	0	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	1	0	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	1	0	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	1	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 NC0020567.

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 discharge permit NPDES NC0020567 for the Yadkin Valley Sewer Authority WWTP in Elkin, NC, a publicly owned treatment works classed as a major discharger and administratively continued. The page lists 10 pollutants under a numeric limit and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance. The permit's Logan Creek (HUC 030401011201) subwatershed and its issue and expiration dates are shown as EPA's file stood on October 14, 2026.