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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0080179

TRAFFORD MINE NO. 1, Trafford, AL: NPDES AL0080179 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

TRAFFORD MINE NO. 1, held by Travis Creek Energy, LLC, holds NPDES permit AL0080179. EPA’s file records it issued October 31, 2016 and expiring October 31, 2021. 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.

What the register holds for TRAFFORD MINE NO. 1: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Trafford, Alabama, and 14 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES AL0080179.

Identity

Facility as filedTRAFFORD MINE NO. 1
Permittee as filedTravis Creek Energy, LLC
NPDES IDAL0080179
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
IssuedOctober 31, 2016
Expiration dateOctober 31, 2021
AddressTrafford, AL 35172
SubwatershedLongs Branch (HUC 031601110302)
NAICS212114 – Surface Coal Mining
SIC1221 – Bituminous Coal And Lignite - Surface
Other EPA IDs (FRS)ICIS-AIR source AL0000000100900018

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

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
Solids, total suspended3400
pH2400
Specific conductance1600
Sulfate [as S]1600
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]1600
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]1600
Phosphorus, total [as P]1600
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant1600
Iron, total [as Fe]1200
Manganese, total [as Mn]800
Solids, settleable400
Solids, total dissolved [TDS]400
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia200
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]200

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES AL0080179.

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 AL0080179.

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.

What this page shows

The page covers NPDES permit AL0080179 for TRAFFORD MINE NO. 1 in Trafford, Alabama, held by Travis Creek Energy, LLC, with a status of administratively continued and a minor discharger class. The figures listed are 14 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.