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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0029289

SHORT CREEK MINE, Mulga, AL: NPDES AL0029289 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SHORT CREEK MINE, held by Drummond Company Inc, holds NPDES permit AL0029289. EPA’s file records it issued January 29, 2020 and expiring January 31, 2025. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedSHORT CREEK MINE
Permittee as filedDrummond Company Inc
NPDES IDAL0029289
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedJanuary 29, 2020
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2025
AddressMulga, AL 35118
SubwatershedShort Creek (HUC 031601110411)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler ALD113175962

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
pH369180
Iron, total [as Fe]189180
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant246120
Solids, total suspended126120
Manganese, total [as Mn]126120
Solids, settleable63060
Specific conductance2400
Sulfate [as S]2400
Solids, total dissolved [TDS]600
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia300
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]300

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES AL0029289.

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES AL0029289.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES AL0029289 for SHORT CREEK MINE in Mulga, AL, held by Drummond Company Inc, with a permit status of Effective and a discharger class of Minor Discharger. The page lists 11 pollutants on file, 11 under a numeric limit, 6 with a violation of any kind, and 0 with an effluent exceedance.