Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0050229

AL SHERIFFS YOUTH RANCH, Pell City, AL: NPDES AL0050229 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
8Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

AL SHERIFFS YOUTH RANCH, held by AL SHERIFFS YOUTH RANCH PELHAM, holds NPDES permit AL0050229, which discharges to Shoal Creek. EPA’s file records it issued June 15, 2005 and expiring June 30, 2010. 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 filed	AL SHERIFFS YOUTH RANCH
Permittee as filed	AL SHERIFFS YOUTH RANCH PELHAM
NPDES ID	AL0050229
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	June 15, 2005
Expiration date	June 30, 2010
Address	Pell City, AL 35128
Receiving water	SHOAL CREEK
Subwatershed	Jess Branch-Shoal Creek (HUC 031501060804)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

14Pollutants on file
13Under a numeric limit
14With a violation of any kind
8With 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	45	13	November 30, 2014	454% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	15	11	May 31, 2012	1,186% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	8	41	9	May 31, 2012	669% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	12	8	June 30, 2013	97% over the limit
BOD, carb-5 day, 20 deg C, percent removal	1	12	8	May 31, 2012	567% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	21	5	January 31, 2012	477% over the limit
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	4	14	2	December 31, 2009	260% over the limit
pH	2	10	2	March 31, 2010
Phosphorus, total [as P]	4	14	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	4	12	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	8	0
E. coli	0	8	0
Chlorine, total residual	1	7	0
Coliform, fecal general	4	4	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 AL0050229.

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 NPDES permit AL0050229 held by AL SHERIFFS YOUTH RANCH in Pell City, AL, which discharges to Shoal Creek and is classed as a minor discharger with an administratively continued status. The facts list 14 pollutants on file, 13 under a numeric limit, 14 with a violation of any kind, and 8 with an effluent exceedance.