Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0057312

BLACK WARRIOR RIVER BASIN PROJECT, Tuscaloosa, AL: NPDES AL0057312 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
10Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BLACK WARRIOR RIVER BASIN PROJECT, held by Warrior Met Coal Gas, LLC, holds NPDES permit AL0057312. EPA’s file records it issued February 27, 2014 and expiring February 28, 2019. 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	BLACK WARRIOR RIVER BASIN PROJECT
Permittee as filed	Warrior Met Coal Gas, LLC
NPDES ID	AL0057312
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 27, 2014
Expiration date	February 28, 2019
Address	Tuscaloosa, AL 35406
Subwatershed	Shoal Creek-Black Warrior River (HUC 031601120203)
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

10Pollutants on file
10Under a numeric limit
6With 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
Manganese, total [as Mn]	16	10	2	October 31, 2018	146% over the limit
Oil & Grease	8	6	2	February 28, 2023	565% over the limit
Iron, total [as Fe]	16	9	1	May 31, 2020	3% over the limit
pH	24	8	0
Chloride, dissolved in water	24	8	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	16	8	0
Specific conductance	8	0	0
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia	4	0	0
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	4	0	0
Mercury, total recoverable	4	0	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 AL0057312.

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.

The page covers NPDES permit AL0057312 for the BLACK WARRIOR RIVER BASIN PROJECT in Tuscaloosa, AL, held by Warrior Met Coal Gas, LLC, with the permit listed as administratively continued and a discharger class of Minor. It lists 10 pollutants under a numeric limit and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit issued February 27, 2014 and expiring February 28, 2019 per EPA's file.