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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NCG200355

GORDON RECYCLERS - HICKORY, Hickory, NC: NPDES NCG200355 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

GORDON RECYCLERS - HICKORY, held by Gordon Recyclers Inc, holds NPDES permit NCG200355. EPA’s file records it issued August 1, 2019 and expiring May 31, 2024. 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 GORDON RECYCLERS - HICKORY: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Hickory, North Carolina. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES NCG200355.

Identity

Facility as filedGORDON RECYCLERS - HICKORY
Permittee as filedGordon Recyclers Inc
NPDES IDNCG200355
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedAugust 1, 2019
Expiration dateMay 31, 2024
AddressHickory, NC 28601
SubwatershedSulphur Branch-South Fork Catawba River (HUC 030501020504)
SIC5093 – Scrap And Waste Materials

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 NCG200355.

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 NCG200355.

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 GORDON RECYCLERS - HICKORY permit is one of 94 storm water industrial permits in Catawba County on EPA's NPDES register, and 27.7% of those 94 were issued before this one. It sits within a subwatershed that holds 37 NPDES permits, this one included. None of the pollutants covered by this permit carry a numeric limit, and the permit has no effluent exceedances on file.