Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0075701

PENNINGTON WWTF, Pennington, AL: NPDES AL0075701 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
17Pollutants under a numeric limit
6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

PENNINGTON WWTF, held by Utilities Board of the Town of Pennington, holds NPDES permit AL0075701. EPA’s file records it issued November 30, 2017 and expiring November 30, 2022. 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	PENNINGTON WWTF
Permittee as filed	Utilities Board of the Town of Pennington
NPDES ID	AL0075701
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	November 30, 2017
Expiration date	November 30, 2022
Address	Pennington, AL 36916
Subwatershed	Mill Creek-Tuckabum Creek (HUC 031602010506)
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

18Pollutants on file
17Under a numeric limit
18With a violation of any kind
6With 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
Coliform, fecal general	5	53	36	May 31, 2025	99,999% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	0	150	25	January 31, 2013	478% over the limit
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	7	31	15	April 30, 2018	72% over the limit
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]	7	33	10	April 30, 2015	183% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	11	140	9	March 31, 2012	313% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	11	5	1	February 28, 2018	1% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	10	81	0
pH	8	45	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	5	43	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	10	27	0
E. coli	6	15	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	7	11	0
Nitrogen, nitrite total [as N]	3	11	0
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]	3	11	0
Methylene blue active substances	3	11	0
Water level at sample collection time	3	8	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	3	4	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	2	4	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 AL0075701.

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.

The page is a public-records entry for NPDES permit AL0075701, held by the Utilities Board of the Town of Pennington for the PENNINGTON WWTF in Pennington, AL, a minor, publicly owned treatment works permit listed as administratively continued. It shows 17 as the discharger class, 6 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 6 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit's issue and expiration dates as they stood when the record was loaded.