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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TN0027456

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY (TVA) GREAT FALLS HYDRO PLANT, Rock Island, TN: NPDES TN0027456 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY (TVA) GREAT FALLS HYDRO PLANT, held by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), holds NPDES permit TN0027456, which discharges to Caney Fork. EPA’s file records it issued April 1, 2017 and expiring April 30, 2022. 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.

What the register holds for TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY (TVA) GREAT FALLS HYDRO PLANT: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Rock Island, Tennessee, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES TN0027456.

Identity

Facility as filedTENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY (TVA) GREAT FALLS HYDRO PLANT
Permittee as filedTennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
NPDES IDTN0027456
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeFederal facility
IssuedApril 1, 2017
Expiration dateApril 30, 2022
Issuing agencyTDEC - DWR
AddressRock Island, TN 38581
Receiving waterCaney Fork
SubwatershedCaney Fork River-Rocky River (HUC 051301080601)

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 TN0027456.

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 TN0027456.

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.