Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0022659

GADSDEN EAST RIVER WWTP, Gadsden, AL: NPDES AL0022659 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
16Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

GADSDEN EAST RIVER WWTP, held by The Water Works & Sewer Board of the City of Gadsden, holds NPDES permit AL0022659. EPA’s file records it issued October 23, 2015 and expiring October 31, 2020. 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	GADSDEN EAST RIVER WWTP
Permittee as filed	The Water Works & Sewer Board of the City of Gadsden
NPDES ID	AL0022659
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Major discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	October 23, 2015
Expiration date	October 31, 2020
Address	Gadsden, AL 35903
Subwatershed	H. Neely Henry Lake-Coosa River (HUC 031501060309)
Program components on file	Biosolids, POTW, Pretreatment
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

20Pollutants on file
16Under a numeric limit
17With a violation of any kind
5With 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	20	12	January 31, 2024	62% over the limit
BOD, carb-5 day, 20 deg C, percent removal	1	10	10	February 28, 2023	69% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	0	8	6	May 31, 2008	119% over the limit
Toxicity [chronic], Ceriodaphnia dubia	1	2	1	August 31, 2017	2,147,483,650% over the limit
E. coli	6	1	1	August 31, 2013	149% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	0	8	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	10	4	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	6	4	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	6	4	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	6	4	0
pH	6	3	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	2	0
Mercury, total recoverable	0	2	0
Chlorine, total residual	1	1	0
Toxicity [chronic], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	1	1	0
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	1	0
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	0	1	0
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	10	0	0
Oil & Grease	2	0	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	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 AL0022659.

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 NPDES permit AL0022659 for the GADSDEN EAST RIVER WWTP in Gadsden, AL, held by The Water Works & Sewer Board of the City of Gadsden, and lists it as administratively continued and a Major Discharger. The page reports 16 pollutants under a numeric limit and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, within the H. Neely Henry Lake-Coosa River (HUC 031501060309) subwatershed.