Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES SCG646024

PICKENS WTP, Pickens, SC: NPDES SCG646024 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
5Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

PICKENS WTP, held by PICKENS CITY OF, holds NPDES permit SCG646024. EPA’s file records it issued December 2, 2015 and expiring December 30, 2020. 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.

Identity

Facility as filed	PICKENS WTP
Permittee as filed	PICKENS CITY OF
NPDES ID	SCG646024
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	December 2, 2015
Expiration date	December 30, 2020
Issuing agency	State
Address	Pickens, SC 29671
Subwatershed	Upper Twelvemile Creek-Keowee River (HUC 030601010407)
SIC	4941 – Water Supply
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler SCR000073494

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

6Pollutants on file
5Under a numeric limit
6With a violation of any kind
0With an effluent exceedance

An effluent exceedance is a discharge monitoring report value over the permit’s numeric limit (EPA’s violation code E90). A violation of any kind also counts a report not filed. Each row is EPA’s own count for that pollutant.

Pollutant or measure	Limits	Violations, any kind
pH	2	136
Solids, total suspended	2	122
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	106
Chlorine, total residual	2	104
Aluminum, total [as Al]	0	90
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	88

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES SCG646024.

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

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES SCG646024.

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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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES SCG646024 for PICKENS WTP in Pickens, SC, held by PICKENS CITY OF, with a permit status of administratively continued and a Minor Discharger class 5. The facts list 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and the permit's recorded issue and expiration dates fall in the years 2015 and 2020.