Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0078280
MEREDYTH MINE, Double Springs, AL: NPDES AL0078280 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 6Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
MEREDYTH MINE, held by Job Land & Mineral, Inc., holds NPDES permit AL0078280. EPA’s file records it issued October 31, 2007 and expiring October 31, 2012. 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 | MEREDYTH MINE |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | Job Land & Mineral, Inc. |
| NPDES ID | AL0078280 |
| 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, 2007 |
| Expiration date | October 31, 2012 |
| Address | Double Springs, AL 35553 |
| Receiving water impaired | 303(D) Listed |
| Subwatershed | Headwaters Bear Creek (HUC 060300060102) |
| NAICS | 213113 – Support Activities For Coal Mining |
| 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
- 17Pollutants on file
- 6Under a numeric limit
- 17With a violation of any kind
- 4With 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron, total [as Fe] | 72 | 626 | 13 | March 31, 2024 | 77% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 48 | 400 | 4 | April 30, 2023 | 71% over the limit |
| Manganese, total [as Mn] | 48 | 397 | 1 | November 30, 2021 | 10% over the limit |
| Arsenic, trivalent dissolved | 0 | 123 | 1 | March 31, 2020 | 11% over the limit |
| pH | 96 | 1,178 | 0 | ||
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 48 | 782 | 0 | ||
| Specific conductance | 0 | 734 | 0 | ||
| Sulfate [as S] | 0 | 734 | 0 | ||
| Selenium, total recoverable | 0 | 734 | 0 | ||
| Zinc, total recoverable | 0 | 734 | 0 | ||
| Solids, settleable | 24 | 217 | 0 | ||
| Solids, total dissolved [TDS] | 0 | 108 | 0 | ||
| Mercury, total recoverable | 0 | 108 | 0 | ||
| Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia | 0 | 54 | 0 | ||
| Toxicity [chronic], Ceriodaphnia dubia | 0 | 54 | 0 | ||
| Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow] | 0 | 54 | 0 | ||
| Toxicity [chronic], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow] | 0 | 54 | 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 AL0078280.
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.