Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0067229

NELSON BROTHERS INC, Cherokee, AL: NPDES AL0067229 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

NELSON BROTHERS INC holds NPDES permit AL0067229, which discharges to Tennessee River. EPA’s file records it issued July 23, 2009 and expiring July 31, 2014. 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	NELSON BROTHERS INC
Permittee as filed	NELSON BROTHERS INC
NPDES ID	AL0067229
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 23, 2009
Expiration date	July 31, 2014
Issuing agency	ADEM
Address	Cherokee, AL 35616
Receiving water	TENNESSEE RIVER
Subwatershed	Colbert Creek-Pickwick Lake (HUC 060300051002)
SIC	2892 – Explosives
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ALR000012450

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
9Under a numeric limit
13With a violation of any kind
1With 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
Oil and grease	5	22	1	December 31, 2010	47% over the limit
pH	10	48	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	7	39	0
Solids, total suspended	5	21	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	5	21	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	5	21	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	18	0
BTEX	2	3	0
Chlorine, total residual	2	3	0
Toluene	0	2	0
Benzene	0	2	0
Ethylbenzene	0	2	0
Xylene [mix of m+o+p]	0	2	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 AL0067229.

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 AL0067229 held by NELSON BROTHERS INC in Cherokee, AL, which discharges to the TENNESSEE RIVER and carries an administratively continued status with an issue date of July 23, 2009 and an expiration date of July 31, 2014. The register lists 9 as the discharger class, 1 pollutant under a numeric limit, and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance.