Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0073164

LICK CREEK MINE, Alabaster, AL: NPDES AL0073164 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

EffectivePermit status
MinorDischarger class
6Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

LICK CREEK MINE, held by TUSCALOOSA RES LICK CREEK MINE, holds NPDES permit AL0073164, which discharges to Lick Creek Ut To The Cahaba River. EPA’s file records it issued December 8, 2005 and expiring November 30, 2010. 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.

What the register holds for LICK CREEK MINE: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Alabaster, Alabama, its receiving water, and 6 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES AL0073164.

Identity

Facility as filed	LICK CREEK MINE
Permittee as filed	TUSCALOOSA RES LICK CREEK MINE
NPDES ID	AL0073164
Permit status	Effective
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	December 8, 2005
Expiration date	November 30, 2010
Issuing agency	ADEM
Address	Alabaster, AL 35007
Receiving water	LICK CREEK UT TO THE CAHABA RIVER
Subwatershed	Beaverdam Creek-Cahaba River (HUC 031502020206)
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

6Pollutants on file
6Under a numeric limit
0With 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	12	0	0
Iron, total [as Fe]	12	0	0
Solids, total suspended	8	0	0
Manganese, total [as Mn]	8	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	8	0	0
Solids, settleable	4	0	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES AL0073164.

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 AL0073164.

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 discharge permit NPDES AL0073164 held by TUSCALOOSA RES for LICK CREEK MINE in Alabaster, AL, which discharges to Lick Creek Ut To The Cahaba River and is listed as effective. The register records 6 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.