Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0080837

SAMFORD UNIVERSITY, Birmingham, AL: NPDES AL0080837 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
7Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SAMFORD UNIVERSITY, held by Samford University, holds NPDES permit AL0080837. EPA’s file records it issued September 28, 2016 and expiring September 30, 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.

Identity

Facility as filed	SAMFORD UNIVERSITY
Permittee as filed	Samford University
NPDES ID	AL0080837
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	September 28, 2016
Expiration date	September 30, 2021
Address	Birmingham, AL 35229
Subwatershed	Upper Shades Creek (HUC 031502020301)
NAICS	611310 – Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
SIC	8221 – Colleges And Universities
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ALD982098303; ICIS-AIR source ALJEF0000107301040

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

8Pollutants on file
7Under a numeric limit
8With a violation of any kind
1With 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
Chlorine, total residual	2	54	12	March 31, 2021	4,389% over the limit
pH	2	42	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	1	25	0
Solids, total suspended	1	18	0
Solids, total dissolved [TDS]	1	18	0
Sulfate	1	18	0
Oil & Grease	1	17	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	0	6	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 AL0080837.

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 NPDES permit AL0080837, held by Samford University in Birmingham, AL, a minor discharger under an administratively continued individual permit issued September 28, 2016. The page lists 1 pollutant under a numeric limit and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance, with the permit's status and dates as they stood when the record was loaded on October 14, 2026.