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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NCG500125

CEDAR CLIFF HYDROELECTRIC STATION, Tuckasegee, NC: NPDES NCG500125 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CEDAR CLIFF HYDROELECTRIC STATION, held by Duke Energy Carolinas LLC, holds NPDES permit NCG500125. EPA’s file records it issued December 11, 2020 and expiring November 30, 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.

What the register holds for CEDAR CLIFF HYDROELECTRIC STATION: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Tuckasegee, North Carolina. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES NCG500125.

Identity

Facility as filedCEDAR CLIFF HYDROELECTRIC STATION
Permittee as filedDuke Energy Carolinas LLC
NPDES IDNCG500125
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
IssuedDecember 11, 2020
Expiration dateNovember 30, 2025
AddressTuckasegee, NC 28783
SubwatershedHorsepasture River (HUC 030601010103)
SIC4911 – Electric Services

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 NCG500125.

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 NCG500125.

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

Violations on file reach 0.0% of the 9 general permit coverages in Jackson County, and CEDAR CLIFF HYDROELECTRIC STATION is part of that group. CEDAR CLIFF HYDROELECTRIC STATION sits in the Horsepasture River subwatershed, which holds 11 NPDES permits. Among the Jackson County coverages, 11.1% were issued before the coverage of CEDAR CLIFF HYDROELECTRIC STATION.