Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0020010

FAIRMONT WWTP, Sylacauga, AL: NPDES AL0020010 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
14Pollutants under a numeric limit
6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

FAIRMONT WWTP, held by Utilities Board of the City of Sylacauga, holds NPDES permit AL0020010. EPA’s file records it issued April 24, 2020 and expiring April 30, 2025. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	FAIRMONT WWTP
Permittee as filed	Utilities Board of the City of Sylacauga
NPDES ID	AL0020010
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	April 24, 2020
Expiration date	April 30, 2025
Address	Sylacauga, AL 35150
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Lower Tallaseehatchee Creek (HUC 031501070106)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

15Pollutants on file
14Under a numeric limit
14With a violation of any kind
6With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	8	13	9	September 30, 2014	3,200% over the limit
E. coli	4	3	3	July 31, 2019	397% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	8	10	2	April 30, 2005	33% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	4	2	November 30, 2013	522% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	12	9	1	July 31, 2017	4% over the limit
pH	2	3	1	June 30, 2007
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	4	4	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	4	4	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	4	4	0
Coliform, fecal general	0	3	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	2	0
Chlorine, total residual	2	2	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	1	0
BOD, carb-5 day, 20 deg C, percent removal	1	1	0
Solids, total dissolved	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 AL0020010.

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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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit AL0020010 for FAIRMONT WWTP in Sylacauga, AL, held by Utilities Board of the City of Sylacauga, which EPA's file records as issued April 24, 2020 and expiring April 30, 2025, and now administratively continued. The page lists 15 pollutants on file, 14 under a numeric limit, 14 with a violation of any kind, and 6 with an effluent exceedance.