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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALG120283

CENTRAL ALABAMA FABRICATORS, INC., Columbiana, AL: NPDES ALG120283 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CENTRAL ALABAMA FABRICATORS, INC., held by Lewis E Atchison, Sr., holds NPDES permit ALG120283. EPA’s file records it issued April 30, 2013 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 filedCENTRAL ALABAMA FABRICATORS, INC.
Permittee as filedLewis E Atchison, Sr.
NPDES IDALG120283
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedApril 30, 2013
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2017
AddressColumbiana, AL 35051
SubwatershedUpper Waxahatchee Creek (HUC 031501070403)
NAICS332312 – Fabricated Structural Metal Manufacturing
SIC3441 – Fabricated Structural Metal

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

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
pH220
Solids, total suspended110
Oil & Grease110
Nitrogen, total [as N]110
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]110
Cyanide, total [as CN]110
Arsenic, total recoverable110
Nickel, total recoverable110
Silver total recoverable110
Zinc, total [as Zn]110
Aluminum, total recoverable110
Cadmium, total recoverable110
Lead, total recoverable110
Chromium, total recoverable110
Copper, total recoverable110
Rainfall110
Mercury, total [as Hg]110

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ALG120283.

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 ALG120283.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit ALG120283 for CENTRAL ALABAMA FABRICATORS, INC. in Columbiana, AL, held under industrial stormwater coverage as a minor discharger and administratively continued. The page lists 17 for the discharger class, 0 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.