Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0079227

SLATE CREEK MINE, Oakman, AL: NPDES AL0079227 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
0Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SLATE CREEK MINE, held by Yellowhammer Energy Solutions, LLC, holds NPDES permit AL0079227. EPA’s file records it issued September 3, 2009 and expiring September 30, 2014. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	SLATE CREEK MINE
Permittee as filed	Yellowhammer Energy Solutions, LLC
NPDES ID	AL0079227
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	September 3, 2009
Expiration date	September 30, 2014
Address	Oakman, AL 35579
Subwatershed	Lower Lost Creek (HUC 031601090405)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

13Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
13With 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	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
Solids, total suspended	544	10	March 31, 2022	593% over the limit
Iron, total [as Fe]	378	9	March 31, 2022	282% over the limit
pH	739	1	May 31, 2021
Specific conductance	498	0
Sulfate [as S]	498	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	498	0
Manganese, total [as Mn]	240	0
Solids, settleable	129	0
Solids, total dissolved [TDS]	82	0
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia	49	0
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	49	0
Toxicity [chronic], Ceriodaphnia dubia	36	0
Toxicity [chronic], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	36	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 AL0079227.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit AL0079227 for SLATE CREEK MINE in Oakman, AL, held by Yellowhammer Energy Solutions, LLC, with an administratively continued status and an expiration date of September 30, 2014. The page lists 13 pollutants on file, of which 3 show an effluent exceedance, and the subwatershed is Lower Lost Creek (HUC 031601090405).