Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0078034

BLACKWATER WWTF, Lillian, AL: NPDES AL0078034 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
14Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BLACKWATER WWTF, held by Baldwin County Sewer Service, LLC, holds NPDES permit AL0078034. EPA’s file records it issued March 29, 2017 and expiring March 31, 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	BLACKWATER WWTF
Permittee as filed	Baldwin County Sewer Service, LLC
NPDES ID	AL0078034
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	March 29, 2017
Expiration date	March 31, 2022
Issuing agency	State
Address	Lillian, AL 36549
Subwatershed	Lower Blackwater River (HUC 031401060603)
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

15Pollutants on file
14Under a numeric limit
13With a violation of any kind
1With 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
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	8	194	2	March 31, 2025	72% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	8	192	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	96	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	4	64	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	4	64	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	4	64	0
pH	2	48	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	48	0
E. coli	4	24	0
Chlorine, total residual	2	24	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	24	0
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	24	0
Coliform, fecal general	0	20	0
Mercury, total recoverable	2	0	0
BOD, carb-5 day, 20 deg C, percent removal	1	0	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 AL0078034.

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.

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES AL0078034 for BLACKWATER WWTF in Lillian, AL, held by Baldwin County Sewer Service, LLC, which is administratively continued with a minor discharger class. The permit file lists 15 pollutants, 14 under a numeric limit and 1 with an effluent exceedance.