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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALG180860

SUSTAINABLE METALS RECYCLING, Mobile, AL: NPDES ALG180860 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SUSTAINABLE METALS RECYCLING, held by Sustainable Metals Recycling Inc, holds NPDES permit ALG180860. EPA’s file records it issued February 23, 2016 and expiring September 30, 2017. 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.

What the register holds for SUSTAINABLE METALS RECYCLING: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Mobile, Alabama, and 18 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES ALG180860.

Identity

Facility as filedSUSTAINABLE METALS RECYCLING
Permittee as filedSustainable Metals Recycling Inc
NPDES IDALG180860
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
IssuedFebruary 23, 2016
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2017
AddressMobile, AL 36607
SubwatershedToulmins Spring Branch-Three Mile Creek (HUC 031602040504)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler ALR000059519

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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
pH400
Solids, total suspended200
Oil & Grease200
Silver total recoverable200
Zinc, total [as Zn]200
Cadmium, total recoverable200
Lead, total recoverable200
Copper, total recoverable200
Rainfall200
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]200
Nitrogen, total [as N]100
Cyanide, total [as CN]100
Toluene100
Benzene100
Ethylbenzene100
Naphthalene100
Mercury, total [as Hg]100
Xylene [mix of m+o+p]100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ALG180860.

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 ALG180860.

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 September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit ALG180860 for SUSTAINABLE METALS RECYCLING in Mobile, Alabama, held by Sustainable Metals Recycling Inc under an industrial stormwater program. The permit was issued February 23, 2016, expired September 30, 2017, and is listed as administratively continued, with 18 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.