Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0020940

ELBA LAGOON, Elba, AL: NPDES AL0020940 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

ELBA LAGOON, held by City Of Elba, holds NPDES permit AL0020940. EPA’s file records it issued July 26, 2019 and expiring July 31, 2024. 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	ELBA LAGOON
Permittee as filed	City Of Elba
NPDES ID	AL0020940
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	July 26, 2019
Expiration date	July 31, 2024
Address	Elba, AL 36323
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Helms Mill Creek (HUC 031402020603)
Program components on file	POTW, Pretreatment
NAICS	221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC	4952 – Sewerage Systems

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

Effluent limits and exceedances

16Pollutants on file
13Under a numeric limit
16With 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
BOD, carb-5 day, 20 deg C, percent removal	1	97	90	July 31, 2026	471% over the limit
E. coli	4	47	39	August 31, 2023	99,999% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	8	90	33	July 31, 2026	276% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	0	35	27	May 31, 2013	99,999% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	24	17	September 30, 2013	113% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	8	57	1	August 31, 2010	118% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	2	16	1	February 28, 2023	17% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	28	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	4	28	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	4	28	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	4	24	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	16	0
pH	2	14	0
Mercury, total recoverable	2	6	0
Toxicity [chronic], Ceriodaphnia dubia	0	1	0
Toxicity [chronic], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	0	1	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 AL0020940.

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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This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES AL0020940 for ELBA LAGOON in Elba, AL, held by City Of Elba, which EPA's file lists as administratively continued and classed as a minor discharger. The page reports 7 pollutants under a numeric limit and 13 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit shown as issued July 26, 2019 and expiring July 31, 2024.