Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0042102

EMPIRE TOWN CREEK MINE, Sipsey, AL: NPDES AL0042102 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
16Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

EMPIRE TOWN CREEK MINE, held by Mcwane, Inc., holds NPDES permit AL0042102. EPA’s file records it issued November 30, 2015 and expiring November 30, 2020. 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	EMPIRE TOWN CREEK MINE
Permittee as filed	Mcwane, Inc.
NPDES ID	AL0042102
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	November 30, 2015
Expiration date	November 30, 2020
Address	Sipsey, AL 35584
Subwatershed	Old Town Creek-Mulberry Fork (HUC 031601090602)
SIC	1221 – Bituminous Coal And Lignite - Surface

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
16Under a numeric limit
6With a violation of any kind
1With 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	112	833	1	June 30, 2021	11% over the limit
pH	80	1,664	0
Iron, total [as Fe]	40	1,248	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	64	832	0
Manganese, total [as Mn]	32	832	0
Solids, settleable	16	416	0
Specific conductance	48	0	0
Sulfate [as S]	48	0	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	48	0	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	48	0	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	48	0	0
Solids, total dissolved [TDS]	8	0	0
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia	4	0	0
Toxicity [chronic], Ceriodaphnia dubia	4	0	0
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	4	0	0
Toxicity [chronic], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	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 AL0042102.

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.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES AL0042102 for EMPIRE TOWN CREEK MINE in Sipsey, AL, held by Mcwane, Inc., with its status shown as administratively continued and its discharger class as Minor. The page lists 16 pollutants on file, 16 of which are under a numeric limit, 6 with a violation of any kind, and 1 with an effluent exceedance.