Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0024295
COTTONWOOD WWTF, Cottonwood, AL: NPDES AL0024295 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 13Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 10Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
COTTONWOOD WWTF, held by Town of Cottonwood, holds NPDES permit AL0024295. EPA’s file records it issued June 28, 2016 and expiring June 30, 2021. 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 | COTTONWOOD WWTF |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | Town of Cottonwood |
| NPDES ID | AL0024295 |
| 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 | June 28, 2016 |
| Expiration date | June 30, 2021 |
| Address | Cottonwood, AL 36320 |
| Subwatershed | Buck Creek-Marshall Creek (HUC 031300120106) |
| 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
- 13With a violation of any kind
- 10With 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 | 26 | 18 | July 31, 2026 | 159% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C | 0 | 31 | 14 | November 30, 2009 | 155% over the limit |
| E. coli | 4 | 9 | 9 | July 31, 2026 | 99,999% over the limit |
| Oxygen, dissolved [DO] | 2 | 10 | 8 | July 31, 2007 | 47% over the limit |
| Solids, suspended percent removal | 1 | 8 | 6 | March 31, 2018 | 59% over the limit |
| BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C] | 12 | 6 | 6 | October 31, 2020 | 79% over the limit |
| BOD, carb-5 day, 20 deg C, percent removal | 1 | 6 | 6 | September 30, 2017 | 57% over the limit |
| Coliform, fecal general | 0 | 9 | 5 | May 31, 2008 | 400% over the limit |
| pH | 2 | 5 | 1 | December 31, 2018 | |
| BOD, 5-day, percent removal | 0 | 3 | 1 | December 31, 2009 | 93% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 8 | 16 | 0 | ||
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 2 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Chlorine, total residual | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N] | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N] | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 4 | 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 AL0024295.
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 October 14, 2026.