Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0051721

SPARKMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL LAGOON, Toney, AL: NPDES AL0051721 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SPARKMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL LAGOON, held by MADISON BOE SPARKMAN MIDLE SCH, holds NPDES permit AL0051721, which discharges to Unnamed Trib. To Beaverdam Creek. EPA’s file records it issued May 24, 2006 and expiring May 31, 2011. 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	SPARKMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL LAGOON
Permittee as filed	MADISON BOE SPARKMAN MIDLE SCH
NPDES ID	AL0051721
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	May 24, 2006
Expiration date	May 31, 2011
Address	Toney, AL 35773
Receiving water	UNNAMED TRIB. TO BEAVERDAM CREEK
Subwatershed	Banyon Creek-Beaverdam Creek (HUC 060300020305)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

13Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
13With a violation of any kind
5With 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	120	40	July 31, 2014	1,197% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	72	32	November 30, 2014	880% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	16	5	July 31, 2014	65% over the limit
pH	2	24	4	February 28, 2014
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	12	2	June 30, 2013	193% over the limit
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	4	200	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	4	200	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	4	200	0
Solids, total suspended	4	54	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	20	0
Chlorine, total residual	1	15	0
Coliform, fecal general	4	14	0
E. coli	0	6	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 AL0051721.

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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Nearby on the register

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This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES AL0051721 for Sparkman Middle School Lagoon in Toney, AL, which is administratively continued and was issued May 24, 2006, with an expiration date of May 31, 2011. The register lists 13 pollutants on file, 12 under a numeric limit, and 5 with an effluent exceedance, and the receiving water is Unnamed Trib. To Beaverdam Creek within the Banyon Creek-Beaverdam Creek subwatershed (HUC 060300020305).