Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0055247

EASTERN AREA LANDFILL, Birmingham, AL: NPDES AL0055247 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

EASTERN AREA LANDFILL, held by City of Birmingham, holds NPDES permit AL0055247. EPA’s file records it issued November 29, 2018 and expiring November 30, 2023. 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	EASTERN AREA LANDFILL
Permittee as filed	City of Birmingham
NPDES ID	AL0055247
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 29, 2018
Expiration date	November 30, 2023
Address	Birmingham, AL 35210
Subwatershed	Upper Cahaba River (HUC 031502020101)
NAICS	562212 – Solid Waste Landfill
SIC	4953 – Refuse Systems
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	ICIS-AIR source ALJEF0000107300373

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

13Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
13With a violation of any kind
3With 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	12	765	227	July 31, 2026	3,093% over the limit
pH	12	550	6	April 30, 2025
Turbidity	18	143	3	December 31, 2013
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	6	287	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	6	85	0
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]	6	32	0
Chromium, total [as Cr]	6	32	0
Copper, total [as Cu]	6	32	0
Solids, total dissolved	6	32	0
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]	6	32	0
Oil and grease	0	31	0
Cadmium, total [as Cd]	6	30	0
Oil & Grease	6	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 AL0055247.

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 discharge permit NPDES AL0055247 for EASTERN AREA LANDFILL in Birmingham, AL, held by City of Birmingham, which EPA lists as administratively continued with a minor discharger class. The page lists 12 pollutants under a numeric limit and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit issued November 29, 2018 and expiring November 30, 2023.