Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0052264

BIG SANDY CREEK #1, Tuscaloosa, AL: NPDES AL0052264 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BIG SANDY CREEK #1, held by PGP Operating, LLC, holds NPDES permit AL0052264. EPA’s file records it issued May 22, 2015 and expiring May 31, 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	BIG SANDY CREEK #1
Permittee as filed	PGP Operating, LLC
NPDES ID	AL0052264
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 22, 2015
Expiration date	May 31, 2020
Address	Tuscaloosa, AL 35405
Subwatershed	Long Branch-Upper Big Sandy Creek (HUC 031601130104)
NAICS	211120 – Crude Petroleum Extraction
SIC	1311 – Crude Petroleum And Natural Gas

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

15Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
11With a violation of any kind
0With 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
pH	4	288
Iron, total [as Fe]	4	288
Manganese, total [as Mn]	4	288
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	288
Conductivity	0	288
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	0	288
Chloride [as Cl]	0	288
Chloride, dissolved [as Cl]	0	288
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	0	195
%Effect Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia	0	48
%Effect Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Pimephales promelas	0	48
Chloride, dissolved in water	4	0
Oil & Grease	2	0
Toxicity [chronic], Ceriodaphnia dubia	1	0
Toxicity [chronic], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	1	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES AL0052264.

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 AL0052264.

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

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit AL0052264 for BIG SANDY CREEK #1 in Tuscaloosa, AL, held by PGP Operating, LLC, which EPA's file lists as administratively continued with a minor discharger classification. The page shows 8 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, out of 15 pollutants on file.