Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0074322

BIRMINGHAM FACILITY, Birmingham, AL: NPDES AL0074322 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
6Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BIRMINGHAM FACILITY, held by Holcim (US) Inc., holds NPDES permit AL0074322. EPA’s file records it issued July 31, 2012 and expiring July 31, 2017. 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	BIRMINGHAM FACILITY
Permittee as filed	Holcim (US) Inc.
NPDES ID	AL0074322
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	July 31, 2012
Expiration date	July 31, 2017
Address	Birmingham, AL 35221
Subwatershed	Headwaters Valley Creek (HUC 031601120101)
SIC	5032 – Brick, Stone, & Related Materials
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ALR000035725; ICIS-AIR source ALJEF0000107300472

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

7Pollutants on file
6Under a numeric limit
7With a violation of any kind
5With 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
Solids, total suspended	4	168	40	April 30, 2014	8,243% over the limit
Iron, total [as Fe]	4	170	21	December 31, 2012	343% over the limit
Manganese, total [as Mn]	4	163	12	August 31, 2013	99,999% over the limit
pH	4	150	3	April 30, 2005
Oil and grease	0	21	1	October 31, 2007	20% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	272	0
Oil & Grease	2	16	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 AL0074322.

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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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This EPA-issued NPDES permit AL0074322, held by Holcim (US) Inc. for the BIRMINGHAM FACILITY in Birmingham, AL, was issued July 31, 2012 and expired July 31, 2017, and is administratively continued. The page lists 6 minor-discharger pollutants under a numeric limit and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.