Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0031542

BLUE SPRING FORK FACILITY, Ragland, AL: NPDES AL0031542 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
5Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
1Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

BLUE SPRING FORK FACILITY, held by National Cement Company of Alabama, Inc., holds NPDES permit AL0031542. EPA’s file records it issued September 21, 2012 and expiring September 30, 2017. 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	BLUE SPRING FORK FACILITY
Permittee as filed	National Cement Company of Alabama, Inc.
NPDES ID	AL0031542
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	September 21, 2012
Expiration date	September 30, 2017
Address	Ragland, AL 35131
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Trout Creek (HUC 031501060601)
NAICS	327310 – Cement Manufacturing
SIC	1422 – Crushed And Broken Limestone
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ALD067127126; ICIS-AIR source AL0000000111500002

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

5Pollutants on file
5Under a numeric limit
2With a violation of any kind
2With 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	14	27	27	April 30, 2026	168% over the limit
pH	14	3	3	June 30, 2026
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	14	0	0
Solids, total dissolved	4	0	0
Chemical oxygen demand [COD]	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 AL0031542.

Inspections

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
January 7, 2026	Evaluation	S

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES AL0031542.

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.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit AL0031542 for the BLUE SPRING FORK FACILITY in Ragland, AL, held by National Cement Company of Alabama, Inc., with a permit status of administratively continued and a Minor Discharger class 5. The register lists 2 pollutants under a numeric limit and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.