Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0051268

ALPINE BAY WWTP, Alpine, AL: NPDES AL0051268 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

ALPINE BAY WWTP, held by Alpine Bay Sewer System, holds NPDES permit AL0051268. EPA’s file records it issued November 18, 2015 and expiring January 31, 2021. 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	ALPINE BAY WWTP
Permittee as filed	Alpine Bay Sewer System
NPDES ID	AL0051268
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 18, 2015
Expiration date	January 31, 2021
Address	Alpine, AL 35014
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Haw Branch-Clear Creek (HUC 031501060802)

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
7With 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, suspended percent removal	2	26	21	January 31, 2021	2,567% over the limit
E. coli	4	15	13	January 31, 2021	384% over the limit
BOD, carb-5 day, 20 deg C, percent removal	2	12	12	January 31, 2021	153% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	8	44	6	November 30, 2017	176% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	16	79	3	January 31, 2015	53% over the limit
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	8	24	2	November 30, 2016	365% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	16	101	1	February 28, 2018	14% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	0	21	0
pH	4	18	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	18	0
Chlorine, total residual	3	15	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	8	14	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	8	2	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	2	1	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 AL0051268.

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 September 15, 2026.