Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0079561

BLUE CREEK COAL SALES, INC., Mobile, AL: NPDES AL0079561 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BLUE CREEK COAL SALES, INC., held by ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES INC, holds NPDES permit AL0079561, which discharges to Garrows Bend. EPA’s file records it issued August 18, 2008 and expiring August 31, 2013. 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.

What the register holds for BLUE CREEK COAL SALES, INC.: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Mobile, Alabama, its receiving water, and 8 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES AL0079561.

Identity

Facility as filed	BLUE CREEK COAL SALES, INC.
Permittee as filed	ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES INC
NPDES ID	AL0079561
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	August 18, 2008
Expiration date	August 31, 2013
Address	Mobile, AL 36603
Receiving water	GARROWS BEND
Subwatershed	Deer River (HUC 031602050105)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ALD981923477

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

8Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
0With a violation of any kind
0With 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
pH	4	0	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	0	0
Solids, total suspended	2	0	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	0	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	2	0	0
Oil and grease	2	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	0	0
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]	2	0	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES AL0079561.

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 AL0079561.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES AL0079561, held by BLUE CREEK COAL SALES, INC. in Mobile, AL, which discharges to Garrows Bend. The permit is administratively continued and is classed as a Minor Discharger, with 8 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.