Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0002844

POWER SOUTH ENERGY COOPERATIVE, Gantt, AL: NPDES AL0002844 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
14Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

POWER SOUTH ENERGY COOPERATIVE, held by POWER SOUTH SOUTH COOPERATIVE, holds NPDES permit AL0002844, which discharges to Conecuh River. EPA’s file records it issued April 29, 2005 and expiring April 30, 2010. 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	POWER SOUTH ENERGY COOPERATIVE
Permittee as filed	POWER SOUTH SOUTH COOPERATIVE
NPDES ID	AL0002844
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	April 29, 2005
Expiration date	April 30, 2010
Issuing agency	ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Address	Gantt, AL 36420
Receiving water	CONECUH RIVER
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Big Creek-Conecuh River (HUC 031403010404)
SIC	4911 – Electric Services
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ALR000026393; ICIS-AIR source AL0000000103900001

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

14Pollutants on file
14Under a numeric limit
3With a violation of any kind
3With 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	10	9	9	December 31, 2016	378% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	70	1	1	April 30, 2006	220% over the limit
pH	12	1	1	November 30, 2005
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	24	0	0
Chlorine, total residual	20	0	0
Chromium, total [as Cr]	12	0	0
Zinc, total [as Zn]	12	0	0
Chlorine, free available	12	0	0
Chlorination duration	12	0	0
Oil and grease	10	0	0
Priority Pollutants	6	0	0
Copper, total [as Cu]	4	0	0
Iron, total [as Fe]	4	0	0
Naphthalene	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 AL0002844.

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 NPDES permit AL0002844, held by POWER SOUTH ENERGY COOPERATIVE in Gantt, AL, which discharges to the Conecuh River and is administratively continued as a Minor Discharger. The page lists 14 for discharger class, 3 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.