Pole Bridge Creek Advanced Wastewater Facility
4664 Flat Bridge Rd, Lithonia, GA 30038 · Dekalb County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 28.92 MGD
- Design flow
- 20 MGD
- NPDES permit
- GA0026816
- Effective
- Permit expires
- March 2029
- Population served
- 109,554
- CWNS 2022
Pole Bridge Creek Advanced Wastewater Facility is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Lithonia, Dekalb County, Georgia treating an average of 28.92 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 20 MGD, serving about 109,554 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit GA0026816 (effective), which expires in March 2029, with 4 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in September 2021.
Treatment technology
11 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Pole Bridge Creek Advanced Wastewater Facility.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 4
- Effluent violations
- 4
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
EPA enforcement history
Federal civil enforcement cases, compliance inspections and informal actions recorded for Pole Bridge Creek Advanced Wastewater Facility in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $1.5M
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $1,700M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Sep 2021
DEKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA
Judicial case · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order With Penalty · Penalty $1.5M · Compliance actions $1,700M · The case also names 1 other plant, and its amounts cover all of them
EPA's description of the case:
“Clean Water Act Consent Decree Entered Against DeKalb County, Georgia. On December 20, 2011, the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia entered a Consent Decree settling violations of…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 04-2008-9012.
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Every action against Pole Bridge Creek Advanced Wastewater Facility with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
1 verified contact for Pole Bridge Creek Advanced Wastewater Facility, with validated emails and direct phone numbers.
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Pole Bridge Creek Advanced Wastewater Facility: frequently asked questions
Sources and methodology
Flow, permit and violation figures come from the EPA's ICIS-NPDES discharge monitoring records. Population served comes from the Clean Watersheds Needs Survey 2022. Treatment structures are identified by Klarifi's review of aerial imagery, and capital improvement projects are extracted from published municipal budget documents. Violations are counted over the last three years of monitoring reports.
Data refreshed October 26, 2026; facility record last updated May 16, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Sludge dewatering · Biological nutrient removal · all terms