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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0080098

OLD UNION MINE NO.2, Nauvoo, AL: NPDES AL0080098 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

OLD UNION MINE NO.2, held by Birmingham Coal & Coke Co., Inc., holds NPDES permit AL0080098. EPA’s file records it issued September 29, 2011 and expiring September 30, 2016. 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 filedOLD UNION MINE NO.2
Permittee as filedBirmingham Coal & Coke Co., Inc.
NPDES IDAL0080098
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 29, 2011
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2016
AddressNauvoo, AL 35578
SubwatershedMeadow Creek-Splunge Creek (HUC 031601090301)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Manganese, total [as Mn]841,93250March 31, 2024256% over the limit
Iron, total [as Fe]1262,8412March 31, 202235% over the limit
Solids, total suspended841,8731May 31, 202136% over the limit
pH1684,8560
Specific conductance842,9860
Sulfate [as S]842,9840
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant842,9840
Zinc, dissolved [as Zn]02,0480
Cadmium, dissolved [as Cd]01,8920
Lead, dissolved [as Pb]01,8920
Solids, settleable429880
Silver, dissolved [as Ag]09460
Silver total recoverable848650
Lead, total recoverable848140
Solids, total dissolved [TDS]847940
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia424010
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]424010

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES AL0080098.

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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