Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0025216

FERROGLOBE USA METALLURGICAL, INC., Selma, AL: NPDES AL0025216 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

FERROGLOBE USA METALLURGICAL, INC., held by Ferroglobe USA Metallurgical, Inc., holds NPDES permit AL0025216. EPA’s file records it issued October 30, 2020 and expiring October 31, 2025. 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	FERROGLOBE USA METALLURGICAL, INC.
Permittee as filed	Ferroglobe USA Metallurgical, Inc.
NPDES ID	AL0025216
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
Issued	October 30, 2020
Expiration date	October 31, 2025
Issuing agency	State
Address	Selma, AL 36703
Subwatershed	Tarver Creek (HUC 031502011206)
NAICS	331110 – Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroalloy Manufacturing
SIC	3313 – Electrometallurgical Products
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ALD051235562; ICIS-AIR source AL0000000104700001

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

12Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
12With a violation of any kind
4With 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
Zinc, total recoverable	2	18	10	December 31, 2023	1,036% over the limit
Copper, total recoverable	2	18	10	June 30, 2023	4,829% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	0	53	1	June 30, 2006	42% over the limit
Oil and grease	0	5	1	June 30, 2007	40% over the limit
pH	6	123	0
Solids, total suspended	3	89	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	3	62	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	0	58	0
Chlorine, total residual	2	29	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	1	28	0
Oil & Grease	2	4	0
Chromium, total recoverable	0	2	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 AL0025216.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES AL0025216, held by Ferroglobe USA Metallurgical, Inc. for FERROGLOBE USA METALLURGICAL, INC. in Selma, AL, with an administratively continued status and a minor discharger class. The page lists 4 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it notes the permit was issued October 30, 2020 and expired October 31, 2025.