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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0074934

HICKORY GROVE NORTH, Double Springs, AL: NPDES AL0074934 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

HICKORY GROVE NORTH, held by HICKORY GROVE NORTH MINE, holds NPDES permit AL0074934, which discharges to Ut To Little Bear Br Big Bear Br. EPA’s file records it issued February 29, 2008 and expiring February 28, 2013. 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 filedHICKORY GROVE NORTH
Permittee as filedHICKORY GROVE NORTH MINE
NPDES IDAL0074934
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedFebruary 29, 2008
Expiration dateFebruary 28, 2013
AddressDouble Springs, AL 35553
Receiving waterUT TO LITTLE BEAR BR BIG BEAR BR
SubwatershedLower Clear Creek (HUC 031601100305)
SIC1221 – 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

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
pH0120
Iron, total [as Fe]0120
Solids, total suspended080
Manganese, total [as Mn]080
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant080
Solids, settleable040

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES AL0074934.

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES AL0074934.

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.

What this page shows

The NPDES permit for HICKORY GROVE NORTH is one of just 1 permit in the Lower Clear Creek subwatershed, and it sits among 10 individual permits in Winston County, of which 10.0% were issued before it. Of those 10 individual Winston County permits, 100.0% have a violation on file, while this permit has none of the records tracking pollutants under a numeric limit or effluent exceedances, each counted as 0.