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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NC0023931

GUC WWTP, Greenville, NC: NPDES NC0023931 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

GUC WWTP, held by Greenville Utilities Commission, holds NPDES permit NC0023931. EPA’s file records it issued January 27, 2021 and expiring October 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 filedGUC WWTP
Permittee as filedGreenville Utilities Commission
NPDES IDNC0023931
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedJanuary 27, 2021
Expiration dateOctober 31, 2025
AddressGreenville, NC 27835
SubwatershedPalmetto Swamp (HUC 030202020501)
Program components on fileBiosolids, POTW, Pretreatment
NAICS221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC4952 – 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

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]5251June 30, 202535% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]4241October 31, 202270% over the limit
Coliform, fecal MF, MFC broth, 44.5 C251June 30, 202517,232% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant151February 28, 20212% over the limit
Nitrogen, total [as N]21220
Phosphorus, total [as P]21220
Solids, total suspended3310
Flow, total140
pH220
Temperature, water deg. centigrade110
Conductivity110
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]110
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]110
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]110

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES NC0023931.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES NC0023931 for GUC WWTP in Greenville, NC, held by Greenville Utilities Commission, a major discharger classed as a publicly owned treatment works and listed as administratively continued. The page lists 4 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it lists the permit's status and dates as they stood when the record was loaded.