Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0081558

WELLER MINE, Vance, AL: NPDES AL0081558 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
14Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

WELLER MINE, held by Cahaba Resources, LLC, holds NPDES permit AL0081558. EPA’s file records it issued October 26, 2012 and expiring September 30, 2017. 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	WELLER MINE
Permittee as filed	Cahaba Resources, LLC
NPDES ID	AL0081558
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	October 26, 2012
Expiration date	September 30, 2017
Address	Vance, AL 35490
Subwatershed	Woods Creek-Mud Creek (HUC 031601120105)
SIC	1221 – Bituminous Coal And Lignite - Surface

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

14Pollutants on file
14Under a numeric limit
14With 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
Cyanide, free available	64	93	1	January 31, 2018	35% over the limit
pH	96	138	0
Specific conductance	64	92	0
Sulfate [as S]	64	92	0
Nickel, total recoverable	64	92	0
Zinc, total recoverable	64	92	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	64	92	0
Solids, total suspended	80	84	0
Iron, total [as Fe]	48	69	0
Manganese, total [as Mn]	32	46	0
Solids, settleable	16	23	0
Solids, total dissolved [TDS]	32	12	0
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia	16	6	0
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	16	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 AL0081558.

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 NPDES permit AL0081558 for WELLER MINE in Vance, AL, held by Cahaba Resources, LLC, with the permit administratively continued after its September 30, 2017 expiration. The page lists 14 pollutants on file, 14 under a numeric limit, 14 with a violation of any kind, and 1 with an effluent exceedance.