Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0026891

JAMES CREEK WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, Grove Hill, AL: NPDES AL0026891 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

JAMES CREEK WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, held by Utilities Board of the Town of Grove Hill, holds NPDES permit AL0026891. EPA’s file records it issued August 27, 2020 and expiring August 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	JAMES CREEK WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
Permittee as filed	Utilities Board of the Town of Grove Hill
NPDES ID	AL0026891
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	August 27, 2020
Expiration date	August 31, 2025
Address	Grove Hill, AL 36451
Subwatershed	Pole Bridge Branch-James Creek (HUC 031602030603)
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

14Pollutants on file
13Under a numeric limit
14With 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
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	8	37	3	November 30, 2005	57% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	15	2	July 31, 2005	69% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	2	10	2	October 31, 2005	900% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	0	8	2	April 30, 2006	8,600% over the limit
pH	2	7	1	May 31, 2010
Solids, total suspended	8	24	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	4	24	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	4	24	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	4	24	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	6	0
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	4	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	3	0
BOD, carb-5 day, 20 deg C, percent removal	1	3	0
E. coli	4	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 AL0026891.

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 Clean Water Act NPDES permit AL0026891 for the James Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Grove Hill, AL, held by the Utilities Board of the Town of Grove Hill, with a permit status of administratively continued and a minor discharger class. The page lists 13 pollutants under a numeric limit and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit shown as issued August 27, 2020 and expiring August 31, 2025.