Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0003271
BESSEMER PIPE PLANT, Bessemer, AL: NPDES AL0003271 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 26Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
BESSEMER PIPE PLANT, held by United States Pipe and Foundry Company LLC, holds NPDES permit AL0003271. EPA’s file records it issued November 1, 2013 and expiring October 31, 2018. 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 | BESSEMER PIPE PLANT |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | United States Pipe and Foundry Company LLC |
| NPDES ID | AL0003271 |
| 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 |
| Program | Industrial stormwater |
| Issued | November 1, 2013 |
| Expiration date | October 31, 2018 |
| Address | Bessemer, AL 35020 |
| Subwatershed | Headwaters Valley Creek (HUC 031601120101) |
| SIC | 3321 – Gray And Ductile Iron Foundries |
| Other EPA IDs (FRS) | RCRA handler ALD004017869; ICIS-AIR source ALJEF0000107300340 |
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
- 31Pollutants on file
- 26Under a numeric limit
- 27With a violation of any kind
- 7With 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 | 9 | 37 | 15 | July 31, 2025 | 311% over the limit |
| Toxicity [chronic], Ceriodaphnia dubia | 1 | 4 | 3 | June 30, 2024 | 2,147,483,650% over the limit |
| Oil & Grease | 9 | 3 | 3 | May 31, 2026 | 453% over the limit |
| pH | 12 | 28 | 2 | June 30, 2019 | |
| Toxicity [chronic], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow] | 1 | 3 | 2 | June 30, 2022 | 2,147,483,650% over the limit |
| Oil and grease | 0 | 23 | 1 | December 31, 2012 | 20% over the limit |
| BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C] | 2 | 19 | 1 | February 28, 2019 | 28% over the limit |
| Zinc, total recoverable | 9 | 40 | 0 | ||
| Lead, total recoverable | 9 | 40 | 0 | ||
| Copper, total recoverable | 9 | 40 | 0 | ||
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 7 | 18 | 0 | ||
| Ammonia [as N] + unionized ammonia | 0 | 18 | 0 | ||
| Oxygen, dissolved [DO] | 1 | 9 | 0 | ||
| Mercury, total recoverable | 6 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, total [as N] | 5 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Carbon, tot organic [TOC] | 5 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Cyanide, total [as CN] | 5 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Arsenic, total recoverable | 5 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Nickel, total recoverable | 5 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Silver total recoverable | 5 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Aluminum, total recoverable | 5 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Cadmium, total recoverable | 5 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Chromium, total recoverable | 5 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Organics, total toxic [TTO] | 5 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Rainfall | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow] | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Copper, total [as Cu] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Lead, total [as Pb] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Zinc, total [as Zn] | 2 | 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 AL0003271.
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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