Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0058971

USB ALABAMA, LLC - PLANT #6, Bessemer, AL: NPDES AL0058971 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
9Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

USB ALABAMA, LLC - PLANT #6, held by Meridian Brick, LLC, holds NPDES permit AL0058971. EPA’s file records it issued July 31, 2017 and expiring July 31, 2022. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	USB ALABAMA, LLC - PLANT #6
Permittee as filed	Meridian Brick, LLC
NPDES ID	AL0058971
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	July 31, 2017
Expiration date	July 31, 2022
Issuing agency	State
Address	Bessemer, AL 35022
Subwatershed	Lower Shades Creek (HUC 031502020303)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

13Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
13With a violation of any kind
9With 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	2	102	43	February 29, 2020	3,500% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	48	14	January 31, 2006	960% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	4	27	5	September 30, 2011	27,400% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]	1	23	5	February 29, 2020	267% over the limit
E. coli	4	5	5	September 30, 2018	583% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	8	3	September 30, 2018	38% over the limit
Oil and grease	0	36	2	July 31, 2002	54% over the limit
Oil & Grease	2	4	2	September 30, 2018	376% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	2	11	1	June 30, 2010	10% over the limit
pH	2	62	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	34	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	32	0
Chlorine, total residual	2	10	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 AL0058971.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES AL0058971 for USB ALABAMA, LLC - PLANT #6 in Bessemer, AL, held by Meridian Brick, LLC, which is listed as administratively continued and classed as a Minor Discharger. The page lists 13 pollutants on file, 12 under a numeric limit, and 9 with an effluent exceedance.