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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NCC261847

UPPER LOOKOUT SHOALS, Claremont, NC: NPDES NCC261847 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

UPPER LOOKOUT SHOALS, held by Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, holds NPDES permit NCC261847. EPA’s file records it issued July 8, 2026 and expiring March 31, 2029. 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.

What the register holds for UPPER LOOKOUT SHOALS: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Claremont, North Carolina. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES NCC261847.

Identity

Facility as filedUPPER LOOKOUT SHOALS
Permittee as filedDuke Energy Carolinas, LLC
NPDES IDNCC261847
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedJuly 8, 2026
Expiration dateMarch 31, 2029
AddressClaremont, NC 28610
SubwatershedLookout Shoals Lake (HUC 030501011005)
NAICS236220 – Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
SIC1542 – Nonresidential Construction

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

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES NCC261847.

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 NCC261847.

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 October 14, 2026.

What this page shows

The UPPER LOOKOUT SHOALS permit is one of 3 NPDES permits in the Lookout Shoals Lake subwatershed, this one included. It is also one of 8 general permit coverages in Claremont, and 50.0% of those 8 carry an earlier issue date than this permit. Among the 8 Claremont general permit coverages, 0.0% have a violation on file.