Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NC0041246

WEST LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL, Lincolnton, NC: NPDES NC0041246 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
0Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

WEST LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL, held by Lincoln County Schools, holds NPDES permit NC0041246. EPA’s file records it issued June 10, 2021 and expiring July 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 filed	WEST LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL
Permittee as filed	Lincoln County Schools
NPDES ID	NC0041246
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	June 10, 2021
Expiration date	July 31, 2025
Address	Lincolnton, NC 28092
Subwatershed	Lower Long Creek (HUC 030501020603)
SIC	8211 – Elementary And Secondary Schools

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

8Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
8With a violation of any kind
2With 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
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	1	13	9	December 31, 2015	57% over the limit
Coliform, fecal MF, MFC broth, 44.5 C	2	13	1	March 31, 2015	25% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	1	14	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	6	0
Solids, total suspended	2	6	0
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	1	3	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	1	3	0
pH	2	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

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES NC0041246.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES NC0041246.

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 NC0041246.

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 NPDES permit NC0041246 for WEST LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL in Lincolnton, NC, held by Lincoln County Schools and administratively continued. The page lists 8 pollutants on file, 8 under a numeric limit, and 2 with an effluent exceedance.