Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GAG550020

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES (HARD LABOR CREEK STATE PARK WPCP), Rutledge, GA: NPDES GAG550020 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES (HARD LABOR CREEK STATE PARK WPCP), held by Hard Labor Creek State Park, holds NPDES permit GAG550020. EPA’s file records it issued March 6, 2020 and expiring March 31, 2025. 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	DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES (HARD LABOR CREEK STATE PARK WPCP)
Permittee as filed	Hard Labor Creek State Park
NPDES ID	GAG550020
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	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	March 6, 2020
Expiration date	March 31, 2025
Address	Rutledge, GA 30663
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Little Suwanee Creek-Yellow River (HUC 030701030301)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

14Pollutants on file
13Under a numeric limit
14With a violation of any kind
5With 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
Coliform, fecal general	0	30	14	March 31, 2020	34,900% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	35	6	December 31, 2018	989% over the limit
E. coli	4	18	6	June 30, 2021	182,440% over the limit
pH	4	31	2	June 30, 2022
Chlorine, total residual	2	20	1	December 31, 2020	36% over the limit
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	2	58	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	29	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	28	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	6	7	0
Nitrogen, organic total [as N]	2	6	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	6	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	2	6	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	6	0
Phosphate, ortho [as P]	2	6	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 GAG550020.

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.