Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALG180264

PIEDMONT RECYCLING, Piedmont, AL: NPDES ALG180264 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
15Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

PIEDMONT RECYCLING, held by PROGRESS RAIL PIEDMONT RECYCL, holds NPDES permit ALG180264, which discharges to Nances Creek. EPA’s file records it issued October 1, 2007 and expiring September 30, 2012. 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	PIEDMONT RECYCLING
Permittee as filed	PROGRESS RAIL PIEDMONT RECYCL
NPDES ID	ALG180264
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
Issued	October 1, 2007
Expiration date	September 30, 2012
Address	Piedmont, AL 36272
Receiving water	NANCES CREEK
Subwatershed	Middle Terrapin Creek (HUC 031501050908)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

15Pollutants on file
15Under a numeric limit
13With a violation of any kind
0With 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
Silver total recoverable	2	3
Zinc, total [as Zn]	2	3
Cadmium, total recoverable	2	3
Copper, total recoverable	2	3
pH	4	2
Lead, total recoverable	2	2
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]	2	2
Nitrogen, total [as N]	1	2
Cyanide, total [as CN]	1	2
Mercury, total [as Hg]	1	2
Solids, total suspended	2	1
Oil and grease	2	1
Rainfall	2	1
Benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, xylene combination	1	0
Naphthalene	1	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ALG180264.

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 ALG180264.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit ALG180264 for PIEDMONT RECYCLING in Piedmont, AL, a minor discharger held by PROGRESS RAIL PIEDMONT RECYCL and discharging to NANCES CREEK, with the permit administratively continued after its September 30, 2012 expiration. The page lists 15 pollutants on file, 15 of them under a numeric limit, and 13 with a violation of any kind, with 0 showing an effluent exceedance.