Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0082571

BUFFALO ROCK COMPANY, Birmingham, AL: NPDES AL0082571 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
10Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BUFFALO ROCK COMPANY, held by Buffalo Rock Company, holds NPDES permit AL0082571. EPA’s file records it issued September 30, 2015 and expiring September 30, 2020. 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	BUFFALO ROCK COMPANY
Permittee as filed	Buffalo Rock Company
NPDES ID	AL0082571
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 30, 2015
Expiration date	September 30, 2020
Address	Birmingham, AL 35209
Subwatershed	Upper Shades Creek (HUC 031502020301)
NAICS	312111 – Soft Drink Manufacturing
SIC	2086 – Bottled And Canned Soft Drinks
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ALD004009221

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

10Pollutants on file
10Under a numeric limit
3With a violation of any kind
3With 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
Aluminum, total recoverable	2	4	4	April 30, 2018	1,025% over the limit
Chloride [as Cl]	2	2	2	June 30, 2026	85% over the limit
pH	2	1	1	December 31, 2017
Solids, total suspended	2	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	0	0
Chlorine, total residual	2	0	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	1	0	0
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]	1	0	0
Iron, total recoverable	1	0	0
Solids, total dissolved	1	0	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 AL0082571.

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 Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES AL0082571, held by BUFFALO ROCK COMPANY in Birmingham, AL, which is administratively continued with a minor discharger classification. The facts list 10 as the discharger class, 3 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.