Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0053538

KOWALIGA RETREAT WWTP, Eclectic, AL: NPDES AL0053538 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
10Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

KOWALIGA RETREAT WWTP, held by Kowaliga Retreat Homeowners Association, Inc., holds NPDES permit AL0053538. EPA’s file records it issued February 28, 2017 and expiring February 28, 2022. 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	KOWALIGA RETREAT WWTP
Permittee as filed	Kowaliga Retreat Homeowners Association, Inc.
NPDES ID	AL0053538
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	February 28, 2017
Expiration date	February 28, 2022
Address	Eclectic, AL 36024
Subwatershed	Lake Martin-Chapman Creek (HUC 031501090704)
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
10With 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, total suspended	8	148	76	April 30, 2019	173% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	73	65	August 31, 2017	567% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	86	50	January 31, 2026	186% over the limit
E. coli	2	55	45	June 30, 2026	99,999% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	0	38	26	January 31, 2012	99,999% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	8	73	15	March 31, 2025	220% over the limit
BOD, carb-5 day, 20 deg C, percent removal	1	16	9	April 30, 2014	567% over the limit
pH	2	28	8	March 31, 2008
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	0	6	3	April 30, 2006	147% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	1	13	2	November 30, 2009	40% over the limit
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	4	32	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	4	32	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	4	32	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	0	24	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	18	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	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 AL0053538.

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 Clean Water Act NPDES permit AL0053538 for the KOWALIGA RETREAT WWTP in Eclectic, AL, held by Kowaliga Retreat Homeowners Association, Inc., which is listed as administratively continued with a Minor Discharger class. The page lists 13 pollutants under a numeric limit and 10 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit issued February 28, 2017 and expiring February 28, 2022.