Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0055727

OHATCHEE SCHOOL WWTP, Ohatchee, AL: NPDES AL0055727 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

OHATCHEE SCHOOL WWTP, held by Calhoun County Board Of Education, holds NPDES permit AL0055727. EPA’s file records it issued March 18, 2020 and expiring March 31, 2025. 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	OHATCHEE SCHOOL WWTP
Permittee as filed	Calhoun County Board Of Education
NPDES ID	AL0055727
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	March 18, 2020
Expiration date	March 31, 2025
Address	Ohatchee, AL 36271
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Lower Ohatchee Creek (HUC 031501060405)
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

14Pollutants on file
13Under a numeric limit
14With a violation of any kind
7With 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	9	6	August 31, 2012	230% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	8	29	5	January 31, 2011	67% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	34	2	December 31, 2010	44% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	1	5	2	March 31, 2006	120% over the limit
E. coli	2	2	2	November 30, 2017	113% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	0	23	1	August 31, 2005	18% over the limit
pH	2	7	1	October 31, 2004
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	8	24	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	4	16	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	4	16	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	4	16	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	8	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	6	0
BOD, carb-5 day, 20 deg C, percent removal	1	3	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 AL0055727.

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

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act NPDES discharge permit AL0055727 for the OHATCHEE SCHOOL WWTP in Ohatchee, AL, held by Calhoun County Board Of Education, with its permit status shown as administratively continued. The page lists 13 pollutants under a numeric limit and 7 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit's issue and expiration dates recorded as stood when Velarion loaded the file on October 14, 2026.