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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALG180818

RECYCLE ALABAMA, LLC, Opelika, AL: NPDES ALG180818 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

RECYCLE ALABAMA, LLC, held by AJIN Metal Scrap Corporation, holds NPDES permit ALG180818. EPA’s file records it issued December 1, 2022 and expiring September 30, 2027. 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 filedRECYCLE ALABAMA, LLC
Permittee as filedAJIN Metal Scrap Corporation
NPDES IDALG180818
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedDecember 1, 2022
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2027
Issuing agencyState
AddressOpelika, AL 36804
SubwatershedUpper Sougahatchee Creek (HUC 031501100102)
NAICS423930 – Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers
SIC5093 – Scrap And Waste Materials

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
Cyanide, total [as CN]110
Silver total recoverable110
Zinc, total [as Zn]110
Cadmium, total recoverable110
Lead, total recoverable110
Copper, total recoverable110
Rainfall110
Mercury, total [as Hg]110
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]110
Annual Certification Statement100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ALG180818.

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 ALG180818.

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 October 14, 2026.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit ALG180818, held by RECYCLE ALABAMA, LLC in Opelika, AL, with AJIN Metal Scrap Corporation listed as permittee, under the industrial stormwater program. The permit status is Effective, classed as a Minor Discharger, and the file lists 14 pollutants on file, 14 under a numeric limit, and 0 with an effluent exceedance.