Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0068888

BURTON MINE, Empire, AL: NPDES AL0068888 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BURTON MINE, held by McWane, Inc., holds NPDES permit AL0068888. EPA’s file records it issued May 19, 2015 and expiring May 31, 2020. 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	BURTON MINE
Permittee as filed	McWane, Inc.
NPDES ID	AL0068888
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	May 19, 2015
Expiration date	May 31, 2020
Address	Empire, AL 35063
Subwatershed	Old Town Creek-Mulberry Fork (HUC 031601090602)
SIC	1221 – Bituminous Coal And Lignite - Surface

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

13Pollutants on file
13Under a numeric limit
8With a violation of any kind
0With 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
pH	204	96
Specific conductance	152	72
Sulfate [as S]	152	72
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	152	72
Iron, total [as Fe]	78	36
Solids, total suspended	52	24
Manganese, total [as Mn]	52	24
Solids, settleable	50	24
Solids, total dissolved [TDS]	26	0
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia	13	0
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	13	0
Toxicity [chronic], Ceriodaphnia dubia	7	0
Toxicity [chronic], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	7	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES AL0068888.

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 AL0068888.

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 the Clean Water Act NPDES permit AL0068888 held by McWane, Inc. for BURTON MINE in Empire, AL, a minor discharger whose permit was issued May 19, 2015, expired May 31, 2020, and remains administratively continued. The page lists 13 pollutants on file, 13 under a numeric limit, 8 with a violation of any kind, and 0 with an effluent exceedance, all as of October 14, 2026.