Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0074373

BEAR CREEK MINE, Phil Campbell, AL: NPDES AL0074373 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BEAR CREEK MINE, held by Birmingham Coal & Coke Company, Inc., holds NPDES permit AL0074373. EPA’s file records it issued February 28, 2012 and expiring February 28, 2017. 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	BEAR CREEK MINE
Permittee as filed	Birmingham Coal & Coke Company, Inc.
NPDES ID	AL0074373
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	February 28, 2012
Expiration date	February 28, 2017
Address	Phil Campbell, AL 35581
Subwatershed	Headwaters Bear Creek (HUC 060300060102)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

13Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
13With a violation of any kind
3With 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
Manganese, total [as Mn]	92	654	12	December 31, 2020	341% over the limit
Mercury, total recoverable	46	1,087	1	September 30, 2021	55% over the limit
Iron, total [as Fe]	138	964	1	April 30, 2020	22% over the limit
pH	276	1,926	0
Specific conductance	184	1,284	0
Sulfate [as S]	184	1,284	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	184	1,284	0
Cyanide, free available	0	1,008	0
Solids, total suspended	238	891	0
Solids, settleable	46	321	0
Solids, total dissolved [TDS]	46	266	0
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia	23	137	0
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	23	137	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 AL0074373.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit AL0074373 for BEAR CREEK MINE in Phil Campbell, AL, held by Birmingham Coal & Coke Company, Inc., with the permit's status shown as administratively continued. The page lists 13 pollutants on file, 12 under a numeric limit, and 3 with an effluent exceedance.