Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0082813

WOODRUFF FARMS WWTP, Leeds, AL: NPDES AL0082813 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

WOODRUFF FARMS WWTP, held by Community Utilities of Alabama Inc., holds NPDES permit AL0082813. EPA’s file records it issued May 27, 2016 and expiring May 31, 2021. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	WOODRUFF FARMS WWTP
Permittee as filed	Community Utilities of Alabama Inc.
NPDES ID	AL0082813
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	May 27, 2016
Expiration date	May 31, 2021
Address	Leeds, AL 35094
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Little Cahaba River (HUC 031502020103)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

13Pollutants on file
13Under a numeric limit
13With a violation of any kind
6With 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
Solids, suspended percent removal	3	29	14	July 31, 2021	212% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	12	67	7	May 31, 2022	137% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	24	122	2	November 30, 2021	7% over the limit
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	12	49	1	May 31, 2022	53% over the limit
E. coli	24	31	1	June 30, 2022	64% over the limit
BOD, carb-5 day, 20 deg C, percent removal	3	16	1	November 30, 2021	24% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	24	120	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	6	58	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	12	48	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	12	48	0
pH	6	30	0
Chlorine, total residual	6	30	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	3	15	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 AL0082813.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit AL0082813 for the WOODRUFF FARMS WWTP in Leeds, AL, held by Community Utilities of Alabama Inc., with the permit listed as administratively continued past its expiration date. The page lists 13 pollutants on file, all under a numeric limit, with 6 pollutants showing an effluent exceedance.