Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0052272

GUIN LAGOON, Guin, AL: NPDES AL0052272 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
11Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

GUIN LAGOON, held by Waterworks & Sewer Board Of Guin, holds NPDES permit AL0052272. EPA’s file records it issued August 28, 2019 and expiring August 31, 2024. 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	GUIN LAGOON
Permittee as filed	Waterworks & Sewer Board Of Guin
NPDES ID	AL0052272
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	August 28, 2019
Expiration date	August 31, 2024
Address	Guin, AL 35563
Subwatershed	Wickett Creek-Beaver Creek (HUC 031601030201)
Program components on file	POTW, Pretreatment
NAICS	221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC	4952 – Sewerage Systems

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
13Under a numeric limit
16With a violation of any kind
11With 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	1	105	93	February 28, 2022	300% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	8	230	31	November 30, 2025	112% over the limit
BOD, carb-5 day, 20 deg C, percent removal	1	22	20	February 28, 2022	249% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	0	197	13	November 30, 2008	37% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	0	61	9	September 30, 2012	800% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	8	23	7	December 31, 2020	40% over the limit
pH	2	60	4	July 31, 2014
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	115	3	February 29, 2008	919% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	0	28	3	March 31, 2008	184% over the limit
E. coli	4	2	2	August 31, 2022	58% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	28	1	August 31, 2003	90% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	54	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	4	4	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	4	4	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	4	4	0
Chlorine, total residual	2	2	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 AL0052272.

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 the NPDES AL0052272 discharge permit held by Waterworks & Sewer Board Of Guin for GUIN LAGOON in Guin, AL, a minor discharger classed as a publicly owned treatment works with a status of administratively continued. The page lists 13 as the discharger class, 11 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 11 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.