Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0002801

KIMBERLY-CLARK CORP, Mobile, AL: NPDES AL0002801 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
17Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

KIMBERLY-CLARK CORP, held by Kimberly Clark Corp, holds NPDES permit AL0002801. EPA’s file records it issued July 27, 2018 and expiring July 31, 2023. 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 filed	KIMBERLY-CLARK CORP
Permittee as filed	Kimberly Clark Corp
NPDES ID	AL0002801
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Major discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	July 27, 2018
Expiration date	July 31, 2023
Address	Mobile, AL 36610
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Lower Chasaw Creek (HUC 031602040305)
Program components on file	POTW, Pretreatment
NAICS	322120 – Paper Mills
SIC	2621 – Paper Mills
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ALD008149858; ICIS-AIR source AL0000000109702012

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

22Pollutants on file
17Under a numeric limit
18With a violation of any kind
4With 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
Solids, total suspended	14	82	7	January 31, 2026	413% over the limit
Oil and grease	0	15	7	December 31, 2010	60% over the limit
pH	26	19	1	April 30, 2002
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	2	3	1	June 30, 2016	1% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	16	76	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	68	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	13	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	11	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	10	0
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]	12	6	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	1	6	0
Chlorine, total residual	3	3	0
Pentachlorophenol	1	2	0
Trichlorophenol	1	2	0
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia	0	2	0
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	0	2	0
Ammonia [as N] + unionized ammonia	0	2	0
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]	0	1	0
Oil & Grease	12	0	0
River Monitoring Certification	1	0	0
Pass/Fail Static 48Hr Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)	1	0	0
Pass/Fail Static 48Hr Acute Cyprinodon variegatus	1	0	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 AL0002801.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES AL0002801, held by KIMBERLY-CLARK CORP in Mobile, AL, and is listed as administratively continued after its July 31, 2023 expiration date. The page lists a Major Discharger class, 4 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 17 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit's status and dates as they stood when the record was loaded on October 14, 2026.