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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NCG500188

WALTERS HYDROELECTRIC PLANT, Waynesville, NC: NPDES NCG500188 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

WALTERS HYDROELECTRIC PLANT, held by Duke Energy Carolinas LLC, holds NPDES permit NCG500188. EPA’s file records it issued December 15, 2020 and expiring November 30, 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.

What the register holds for WALTERS HYDROELECTRIC PLANT: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Waynesville, North Carolina. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES NCG500188.

Identity

Facility as filedWALTERS HYDROELECTRIC PLANT
Permittee as filedDuke Energy Carolinas LLC
NPDES IDNCG500188
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 15, 2020
Expiration dateNovember 30, 2025
AddressWaynesville, NC 28786
SubwatershedUpper Richland Creek (HUC 060101060201)

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 NCG500188.

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 NCG500188.

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 10 general permit coverages in Haywood County, 20.0% were issued before WALTERS HYDROELECTRIC PLANT. Violations on file reach 40.0% of those Haywood County coverages. WALTERS HYDROELECTRIC PLANT is situated in the Upper Richland Creek subwatershed, which holds 9 NPDES permits.