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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0077631

HICKORY BEND MINE, Shorter, AL: NPDES AL0077631 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

HICKORY BEND MINE, held by Wiregrass Construction Company, Inc., holds NPDES permit AL0077631. EPA’s file records it issued March 12, 2021 and expiring March 11, 2026. 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 BEND MINE
Permittee as filedWiregrass Construction Company, Inc.
NPDES IDAL0077631
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
IssuedMarch 12, 2021
Expiration dateMarch 11, 2026
Issuing agencyState
AddressShorter, AL 36075
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedLower Cubahatchee Creek (HUC 031501100604)
NAICS212321 – Construction Sand and Gravel Mining
SIC1442 – Construction Sand And Gravel

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
pH41320
Solids, total suspended41320
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant41320

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES AL0077631.

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 AL0077631.

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.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit AL0077631 for HICKORY BEND MINE in Shorter, AL, held by Wiregrass Construction Company, Inc., with an administratively continued status and a Minor Discharger class 3. The facts list 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.