Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0072435

MAGNOLIA SPRINGS WWTP, Harvest, AL: NPDES AL0072435 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
16Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

MAGNOLIA SPRINGS WWTP, held by City of Huntsville, holds NPDES permit AL0072435. EPA’s file records it issued May 26, 2016 and expiring May 31, 2021. 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	MAGNOLIA SPRINGS WWTP
Permittee as filed	City of Huntsville
NPDES ID	AL0072435
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	May 26, 2016
Expiration date	May 31, 2021
Address	Harvest, AL 35749
Subwatershed	Middle Limestone Creek (HUC 060300020702)
Program components on file	POTW, Pretreatment
NAICS	221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC	4952 – Sewerage Systems

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

17Pollutants on file
16Under a numeric limit
13With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	26	144	4	October 31, 2006	26% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	0	72	2	June 30, 2007	200% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	26	281	1	November 30, 2006	14% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	3	36	1	February 28, 2005	53% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	34	280	0
pH	10	70	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	8	70	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	14	56	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	5	35	0
BOD, carb-5 day, 20 deg C, percent removal	3	35	0
Chlorine, total residual	6	5	0
Toxicity [chronic], Ceriodaphnia dubia	1	4	0
Toxicity [chronic], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	1	4	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	14	0	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	14	0	0
E. coli	14	0	0
Oil & Grease	2	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 AL0072435.

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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This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES AL0072435 for MAGNOLIA SPRINGS WWTP in Harvest, AL, held by City of Huntsville, with its status shown as administratively continued and a minor discharger class. The page lists 16 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it records the permit as issued May 26, 2016 and expiring May 31, 2021.