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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0001121

FORMER BROWN WOOD PRESERVING CO INC, Northport, AL: NPDES AL0001121 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

FORMER BROWN WOOD PRESERVING CO INC, held by Brown Wood Preserving Co Inc, holds NPDES permit AL0001121. EPA’s file records it issued November 21, 2014 and expiring December 31, 2019. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (October 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedFORMER BROWN WOOD PRESERVING CO INC
Permittee as filedBrown Wood Preserving Co Inc
NPDES IDAL0001121
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedNovember 21, 2014
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2019
AddressNorthport, AL 35475
SubwatershedThorton Creek (HUC 031601070206)
SIC2491 – Wood Preserving
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler ALD082066192

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
pH8200
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]480
Benzo[a]pyrene470
Fluorene470
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant470
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C460
Solids, total suspended460
Iron, total recoverable460
Acenaphthylene460
Acenaphthene460
Chrysene460
Phenanthrene460
2,4-Dimethylphenol460
2,4,6-Trichlorophenol460
Phenol460
Oil and grease060
Arsenic, total recoverable450
Chromium, total recoverable450
Copper, total recoverable450
Benzo[k]fluoranthene450
Pentachlorophenol450
Oil & Grease400

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES AL0001121.

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 AL0001121.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES AL0001121.

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES AL0001121.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit AL0001121, held by Brown Wood Preserving Co Inc for the facility listed as FORMER BROWN WOOD PRESERVING CO INC in Northport, AL. The permit is administratively continued, with a minor discharger classification, a numeric limit count of 0, and an effluent exceedance count of 0, as loaded on October 14, 2026.