Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0079944

BIRMINGHAM, Birmingham, AL: NPDES AL0079944 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BIRMINGHAM, held by Golden Flake Snack Foods Inc, holds NPDES permit AL0079944. EPA’s file records it issued February 25, 2014 and expiring February 28, 2019. 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	BIRMINGHAM
Permittee as filed	Golden Flake Snack Foods Inc
NPDES ID	AL0079944
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	February 25, 2014
Expiration date	February 28, 2019
Address	Birmingham, AL 35205
Subwatershed	Headwaters Valley Creek (HUC 031601120101)
SIC	2096 – Potato Chips And Similar Snacks
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ALD982126021

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

13Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
13With a violation of any kind
6With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	39	21	March 31, 2023	5,433% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	32	14	August 31, 2022	650% over the limit
pH	4	41	5	November 30, 2019
Solids, total suspended	3	33	5	July 31, 2019	513% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	11	2	September 30, 2018	13% over the limit
Oil & Grease	3	6	1	December 31, 2021	111% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	3	31	0
Oil and grease	0	22	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	2	18	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	18	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	18	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	1	9	0
Benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, xylene combination	1	9	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 AL0079944.

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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers the NPDES AL0079944 discharge permit held by Golden Flake Snack Foods Inc at BIRMINGHAM, Birmingham, AL, which EPA's file shows as administratively continued. The listed figures are a Minor Discharger class of 12 pollutants under a numeric limit and 6 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.