Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NC0089907

JACOB CORNSILK COMPLEX, Robbinsville, NC: NPDES NC0089907 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

JACOB CORNSILK COMPLEX, held by Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (Jacob Cornsilk Complex), holds NPDES permit NC0089907, which discharges to Showbird Creek. EPA’s file records it issued May 14, 2020 and expiring May 13, 2025. 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	JACOB CORNSILK COMPLEX
Permittee as filed	Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (Jacob Cornsilk Complex)
NPDES ID	NC0089907
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	May 14, 2020
Expiration date	May 13, 2025
Address	Robbinsville, NC 28771
Receiving water	Showbird Creek
Subwatershed	Snowbird Creek (HUC 060102040103)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

12Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
12With a violation of any kind
0With 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
Solids, total suspended	10	90
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	10	90
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	8	72
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	4	36
pH	4	36
Nitrogen, total [as N]	4	36
Phosphorus, total [as P]	4	36
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	36
E. coli	4	36
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	2	18
BOD, carb-5 day, 20 deg C, percent removal	2	18
Solids, suspended percent removal	2	18

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES NC0089907.

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 NC0089907.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit NC0089907 for the JACOB CORNSILK COMPLEX in Robbinsville, NC, held by Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (Jacob Cornsilk Complex), a minor discharger classed as a publicly owned treatment works that discharges to Showbird Creek in the Snowbird Creek subwatershed (HUC 060102040103). The permit is listed as administratively continued, with 12 pollutants on file, 0 under a numeric limit and 0 with an effluent exceedance.