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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0077097

DEERLICK MINE, Tuscaloosa, AL: NPDES AL0077097 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

DEERLICK MINE, held by Cahaba Resources, LLC, holds NPDES permit AL0077097. EPA’s file records it issued December 20, 2010 and expiring December 31, 2015. 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 filedDEERLICK MINE
Permittee as filedCahaba Resources, LLC
NPDES IDAL0077097
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
IssuedDecember 20, 2010
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2015
AddressTuscaloosa, AL 35406
SubwatershedLaurel Branch-Bluff Creek (HUC 031601120306)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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
pH601,4850
Iron, total [as Fe]451,4850
Solids, total suspended309900
Manganese, total [as Mn]309900
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant309900
Solids, settleable154950
Specific conductance3000
Sulfate [as S]3000
Nickel, total recoverable3000
Solids, total dissolved [TDS]3000
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia1500
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]1500

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES AL0077097.

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 AL0077097.

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.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers the NPDES permit AL0077097 held by Cahaba Resources, LLC for DEERLICK MINE in Tuscaloosa, AL, a minor discharger that is administratively continued and past its expiration date. The page lists 12 pollutants on file, 6 under a numeric limit, and 0 with an effluent exceedance.