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Georgia rain inspection alerts, at the 0.5″ the permit actually names.

Georgia is where we started, and it is the state we know best. Every threshold below is checked against the primary permit text, not against a summary of it.

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Georgia rainfall inspection threshold facts
Rainfall trigger	0.50″
Measurement window	Rolling 24 hours
Inspect within	24 hours
Permit	GAR100001 — Georgia EPD NPDES CGP
Effective	2023-08-01
Expires	2028-07-31
Verification	Verified against the primary permit text
Status	Verified

Defaults we ship, not legal advice. Your individual permit governs, and every threshold is editable per site.

What it means on site

Georgia specifics we build for

Rain is not the only clock running

Georgia also requires a routine inspection every seven calendar days regardless of rainfall. A rain-triggered inspection does not reset that weekly obligation, and a product that only tracks storms leaves you managing half the requirement in a spreadsheet. Both appear on the same dashboard here.

The GSWCC number belongs on the form

Our Georgia inspection form carries the fields the state expects, including the GSWCC certification number of the person inspecting. A Georgia form without it is not a Georgia form, so custom questions you add are additive only — they can never displace a permit field.

Deadlines in Eastern time, not UTC

A Georgia site evaluated in UTC lands four to five hours off. Inside a 24-hour window that is enough to move the inspection onto the wrong calendar day. Every Georgia site here carries a real timezone, and a site we cannot derive one for is refused at creation rather than defaulted.

Same everywhere

Two NOAA sources, and we show you both.

Whatever your state's number is, the reading it is compared against matters just as much. We run NOAA Stage IV and NOAA MRMS independently, store both per site, alert on the higher, and flag it when they disagree. Neither is averaged into the other.

Evaluated every five minutes, with one notification per transition.
Six dry hours close the event, so the second storm of the day gets its own alert.
Missing radar reads as unavailable, never as zero rainfall.
Deadlines in the site's local time — never assumed, never UTC.

Stage IV reports 0.47 inches and MRMS 0.62 inches for the same site; the higher reading triggers the alert and the gap is flagged as a divergence. — Both readings reach the dashboard and the inspection report.

Georgia questions

Straight answers

What rainfall triggers an inspection in Georgia?

0.5 inches or more within a 24-hour period under GAR100001, with the inspection due within 24 hours. A routine inspection is separately required every 7 calendar days regardless of rainfall.

Does a rain gauge on site override this?

Where your permit or plan names an on-site gauge as the system of record, the gauge is the record. SWRainAlert tells you when to go look and keeps the NOAA trail.

Which Georgia cities are covered?

All of them. Radar coverage is nationwide — Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta, Columbus, Macon and every site between them are monitored from the same national grid.

Not a compliance guarantee. This is a monitoring and recordkeeping aid. Where your permit names an on-site rain gauge as the system of record, the gauge is the record — and the inspector's judgement outranks ours.

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