Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0079642

ALABAMA FARMERS COOPERATIVE INC, Decatur, AL: NPDES AL0079642 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
10Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

ALABAMA FARMERS COOPERATIVE INC, held by Alabama Farmers Cooperative Inc, holds NPDES permit AL0079642. EPA’s file records it issued August 27, 2018 and expiring August 31, 2023. 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	ALABAMA FARMERS COOPERATIVE INC
Permittee as filed	Alabama Farmers Cooperative Inc
NPDES ID	AL0079642
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 27, 2018
Expiration date	August 31, 2023
Address	Decatur, AL 35601
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Bakers Creek-Tennessee River (HUC 060300021102)
NAICS	493130 – Farm Product Warehousing and Storage
SIC	2048 – Prepared Feeds

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

11Pollutants on file
10Under a numeric limit
11With a violation of any kind
2With 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
Oil & Grease	4	3	3	September 30, 2020	104% over the limit
Oil and grease	0	10	2	June 30, 2011	13% over the limit
pH	8	16	0
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]	4	16	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	8	0
Solids, total suspended	4	8	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	8	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	4	8	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	4	8	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	4	8	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	8	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 AL0079642.

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 NPDES discharge permit AL0079642, held by ALABAMA FARMERS COOPERATIVE INC of Decatur, AL, with a permit status of Administratively continued and a discharger class of Minor. The page lists 10 as the discharger class, 2 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it gives the permit's issue and expiration dates as stated in the EPA permit file.