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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0081817

THUNDER OAKS MINE, Sylvania, AL: NPDES AL0081817 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

THUNDER OAKS MINE, held by Carbon Oak, Inc., holds NPDES permit AL0081817. EPA’s file records it issued September 26, 2022 and expiring September 30, 2027. 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 THUNDER OAKS MINE: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Sylvania, Alabama. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES AL0081817.

Identity

Facility as filedTHUNDER OAKS MINE
Permittee as filedCarbon Oak, Inc.
NPDES IDAL0081817
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 26, 2022
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2027
Issuing agencyState
AddressSylvania, AL 35988
SubwatershedBengis Creek (HUC 060300010701)
NAICS212114 – Surface Coal Mining
SIC1221 – 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

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES AL0081817.

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 AL0081817.

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.

What this page shows

The THUNDER OAKS MINE permit shares the Bengis Creek subwatershed with 2 NPDES permits in total, this one included. Of the 11 individual permits in DeKalb County, 72.7% have a violation on file, while the THUNDER OAKS MINE permit has none of the records for pollutants under a numeric limit or pollutants with an effluent exceedance (both 0). Among the 11 individual permits in DeKalb County, 90.9% were issued before this one, which was issued September 26, 2022.