Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NC0024872

COOLEEMEE WWTP, Cooleemee, NC: NPDES NC0024872 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
10Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
1Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

COOLEEMEE WWTP, held by Davie County, holds NPDES permit NC0024872. EPA’s file records it issued August 19, 2021 and expiring June 30, 2026. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	COOLEEMEE WWTP
Permittee as filed	Davie County
NPDES ID	NC0024872
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	August 19, 2021
Expiration date	June 30, 2026
Address	Cooleemee, NC 27014
Subwatershed	Upper Big Bear Creek (HUC 030401050404)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

10Pollutants on file
10Under a numeric limit
10With a violation of any kind
4With 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
Solids, total suspended	3	72	34	January 31, 2024	283% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	3	41	3	March 31, 2014	41% over the limit
Coliform, fecal MF, MFC broth, 44.5 C	2	16	3	January 31, 2007	62% over the limit
pH	2	5	1	December 31, 2016
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	1	6	0
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	1	3	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	1	3	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	1	3	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	1	2	0
Chlorine, total residual	1	2	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

1Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
February 15, 2019	Permit Violations - Unapproved Operation	ST6

Inspections

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
April 8, 2026	Audit	S

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES NC0024872.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit NC0024872 for the COOLEEMEE WWTP in Cooleemee, NC, held by Davie County, a major discharger and publicly owned treatment works, shown as administratively continued after its June 30, 2026 expiration date. The page lists 10 pollutants on file, all 10 under a numeric limit, and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the status reflecting EPA's permit file as loaded on September 15, 2026.