Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0078638

SEARLES MINE NO. 5, Brookwood, AL: NPDES AL0078638 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

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

SEARLES MINE NO. 5, held by Southland Resources, Inc., holds NPDES permit AL0078638. EPA’s file records it issued October 31, 2017 and expiring October 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	SEARLES MINE NO. 5
Permittee as filed	Southland Resources, Inc.
NPDES ID	AL0078638
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, 2017
Expiration date	October 31, 2022
Address	Brookwood, AL 35444
Subwatershed	Whiteoak Creek-Davis Creek (HUC 031601120303)
NAICS	212114 – Surface 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

14Pollutants on file
14Under a numeric limit
1With 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
Solids, total suspended	104	1	1	January 31, 2017	20% over the limit
pH	308	0	0
Specific conductance	260	0	0
Sulfate [as S]	260	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	260	0	0
Iron, total [as Fe]	156	0	0
Manganese, total [as Mn]	104	0	0
Solids, settleable	78	0	0
Solids, total dissolved [TDS]	52	0	0
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia	26	0	0
Toxicity [chronic], Ceriodaphnia dubia	26	0	0
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	26	0	0
Toxicity [chronic], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	26	0	0
Nickel, total recoverable	8	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 AL0078638.

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 Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES AL0078638 for SEARLES MINE NO. 5 in Brookwood, AL, held by Southland Resources, Inc., with its permit status listed as administratively continued and its discharger class as Minor. The facts list 14 pollutants on file, 1 under a numeric limit, and 1 with an effluent exceedance.