Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0072044

LINDE INC. - DECATUR FACILITY, Decatur, AL: NPDES AL0072044 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
10Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

LINDE INC. - DECATUR FACILITY, held by Linde Inc., holds NPDES permit AL0072044. EPA’s file records it issued September 16, 2020 and expiring September 30, 2025. 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	LINDE INC. - DECATUR FACILITY
Permittee as filed	Linde Inc.
NPDES ID	AL0072044
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 16, 2020
Expiration date	September 30, 2025
Address	Decatur, AL 35601
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Bakers Creek-Tennessee River (HUC 060300021102)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ALR000016956

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

11Pollutants on file
10Under a numeric limit
10With a violation of any kind
4With 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
Chlorine, total residual	2	15	6	March 31, 2025	2,445% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	1	9	3	March 31, 2025	14% over the limit
Oil & Grease	2	7	3	December 31, 2023	493% over the limit
Oil and grease	0	10	2	December 31, 2009	33% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	3	44	0
pH	4	41	0
Solids, total suspended	2	15	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	14	0
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]	1	6	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	1	5	0
Quarterly Certification Statement	1	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 AL0072044.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit AL0072044, held by Linde Inc. for its LINDE INC. - DECATUR FACILITY in Decatur, AL, with the permit listed as administratively continued. The page lists 10 pollutants under a numeric limit, 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and 11 pollutants on file.