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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NCC252896

CITY OF GASTONIA DEL 18, Gastonia, NC: NPDES NCC252896 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CITY OF GASTONIA DEL 18, held by Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, holds NPDES permit NCC252896. EPA’s file records it issued September 30, 2025 and expiring March 31, 2029. 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.

What the register holds for CITY OF GASTONIA DEL 18: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Gastonia, North Carolina. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES NCC252896.

Identity

Facility as filedCITY OF GASTONIA DEL 18
Permittee as filedDuke Energy Carolinas, LLC
NPDES IDNCC252896
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 30, 2025
Expiration dateMarch 31, 2029
AddressGastonia, NC 28056
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedCatawba Creek (HUC 030501011502)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES NCC252896.

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 NCC252896.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

Of the 83 general permit coverages in Gastonia, 1.2% have a violation on record. CITY OF GASTONIA DEL 18 sits among those 83 coverages, and 75.9% of them carry an earlier issue date than this permit.