Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0077771

OLD UNION MINE, Nauvoo, AL: NPDES AL0077771 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
11Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

OLD UNION MINE, held by Birmingham Coal And Coke Company, Inc., holds NPDES permit AL0077771. EPA’s file records it issued October 31, 2011 and expiring October 31, 2016. 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	OLD UNION MINE
Permittee as filed	Birmingham Coal And Coke Company, Inc.
NPDES ID	AL0077771
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	October 31, 2011
Expiration date	October 31, 2016
Address	Nauvoo, AL 35578
Subwatershed	Long Branch (HUC 031601090303)
SIC	1221 – 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

14Pollutants on file
11Under a numeric limit
14With 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]	76	565	43	January 31, 2023	398% over the limit
pH	152	1,395	1	May 31, 2016
Iron, total [as Fe]	114	793	1	April 30, 2020	41% over the limit
Specific conductance	76	880	0
Sulfate [as S]	76	880	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	76	880	0
Cyanide, free available	0	688	0
Solids, total suspended	76	514	0
Solids, settleable	38	278	0
Solids, total dissolved [TDS]	38	184	0
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia	19	96	0
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	19	96	0
Selenium, total recoverable	0	78	0
Nickel, dissolved [as Ni]	0	78	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 AL0077771.

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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This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES AL0077771 for OLD UNION MINE in Nauvoo, AL, held by Birmingham Coal And Coke Company, Inc., with an administratively continued status and a Minor Discharger class. The facts list 11 pollutants under a numeric limit and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, out of 14 pollutants on file.