Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0070416

WHEELER MINE #1, Jasper, AL: NPDES AL0070416 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

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

WHEELER MINE #1, held by CHEROKEE MINING WHEELER MINE 1, holds NPDES permit AL0070416, which discharges to Ut To Cane Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 28, 2007 and expiring September 30, 2012. 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	WHEELER MINE #1
Permittee as filed	CHEROKEE MINING WHEELER MINE 1
NPDES ID	AL0070416
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	September 28, 2007
Expiration date	September 30, 2012
Address	Jasper, AL 35502
Receiving water	UT TO CANE CREEK
Subwatershed	Town Creek-Cane Creek (HUC 031601090601)
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

10Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
10With 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	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
pH	0	1,224	0
Iron, total [as Fe]	0	909	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	0	618	0
Solids, total suspended	0	606	0
Manganese, total [as Mn]	0	606	0
Solids, settleable	0	306	0
Specific conductance	0	18	0
Sulfate [as S]	0	18	0
Cadmium, dissolved [as Cd]	0	18	0
Zinc, dissolved [as Zn]	0	18	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES AL0070416.

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 AL0070416.

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.

WHEELER MINE #1 in Jasper, Walker County, Alabama, is one of 9.8% of the 51 individual permits in its county that were issued before it, and its permit status of administratively continued sets it apart from the 72.5% of those 51 permits that have a violation on file. The permit sits among 61 NPDES permits in the Town Creek-Cane Creek subwatershed, and it records 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.