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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALG180159

WASTE RECYCLING, INC. - OPELIKA, Opelika, AL: NPDES ALG180159 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

WASTE RECYCLING, INC. - OPELIKA, held by Waste Recycling, Inc. - Opelika, holds NPDES permit ALG180159. EPA’s file records it issued August 18, 2017 and expiring September 30, 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 filedWASTE RECYCLING, INC. - OPELIKA
Permittee as filedWaste Recycling, Inc. - Opelika
NPDES IDALG180159
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
IssuedAugust 18, 2017
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2022
AddressOpelika, AL 36804
SubwatershedUpper Sougahatchee Creek (HUC 031501100102)
NAICS562920 – Materials Recovery Facilities
SIC4953 – Refuse Systems
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler ALR000051433

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

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
pH460
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]250
Solids, total suspended230
Nitrogen, total [as N]230
Rainfall230
Mercury, total [as Hg]130
Oil and grease030
Cyanide, total [as CN]120
Silver total recoverable120
Zinc, total [as Zn]120
Cadmium, total recoverable120
Lead, total recoverable120
Copper, total recoverable120
Oil & Grease200
Annual Certification Statement100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ALG180159.

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 ALG180159.

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 ALG180159, held by WASTE RECYCLING, INC. - OPELIKA, Opelika, AL, a minor discharger under an industrial stormwater program with an administratively continued status. The listed figures are 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 14 as the discharger class, with an issue date of August 18, 2017 and an expiration date of September 30, 2022.