Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALG150122

VENTURA FOODS, LLC - BIRMINGHAM, Birmingham, AL: NPDES ALG150122 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
11Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

VENTURA FOODS, LLC - BIRMINGHAM, held by Ventura Food, LLC, holds NPDES permit ALG150122. EPA’s file records it issued May 25, 2017 and expiring May 31, 2022. 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	VENTURA FOODS, LLC - BIRMINGHAM
Permittee as filed	Ventura Food, LLC
NPDES ID	ALG150122
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Industrial stormwater
Issued	May 25, 2017
Expiration date	May 31, 2022
Address	Birmingham, AL 35217
Subwatershed	Upper Fivemile Creek (HUC 031601110406)
NAICS	311225 – Fats and Oils Refining and Blending
SIC	2079 – Edible Fats And Oils
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ALD004006193; ICIS-AIR source ALJEF0000107300504

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

12Pollutants on file
11Under a numeric limit
12With 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
Oil & Grease	7	29	4	June 30, 2014	153% over the limit
pH	18	204	0
Chlorine, total residual	4	84	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	7	60	0
Solids, total suspended	7	60	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	7	60	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	7	60	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	7	60	0
Rainfall	7	60	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	2	42	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	42	0
Oil and grease	0	35	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 ALG150122.

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 NPDES permit ALG150122 held by VENTURA FOODS, LLC - BIRMINGHAM in Birmingham, AL, shown as administratively continued under the industrial stormwater program. The permit lists 1 pollutant under a numeric limit and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance, with a minor discharger class of 11.