Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GA0026182

POLK COUNTY WATER, SEWAGE, & SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY (ARAGON WPCP), Aragon, GA: NPDES GA0026182 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

POLK COUNTY WATER, SEWAGE, & SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY (ARAGON WPCP), held by Polk County Water, Sewage & Solid Waste Authority, holds NPDES permit GA0026182. EPA’s file records it issued October 15, 2014 and expiring October 31, 2019. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	POLK COUNTY WATER, SEWAGE, & SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY (ARAGON WPCP)
Permittee as filed	Polk County Water, Sewage & Solid Waste Authority
NPDES ID	GA0026182
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	October 15, 2014
Expiration date	October 31, 2019
Address	Aragon, GA 30104
Subwatershed	Upper Euharlee Creek (HUC 031501041404)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

12Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
12With a violation of any kind
7With 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	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	8	377	8	March 31, 1998	648% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	97	5	September 30, 1998	11,329% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	8	373	4	December 31, 1993	458% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	98	4	May 31, 2002	250% over the limit
pH	2	94	3	April 30, 1995
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	51	3	January 31, 2013	33% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	51	3	June 30, 2013	53% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	52	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	39	0
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	1	35	0
Chlorine, total residual	6	33	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	17	0

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 GA0026182.

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 September 14, 2026.