Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALG180870

FLORENCE RECYCLING DEPARTMENT, Florence, AL: NPDES ALG180870 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
14Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

FLORENCE RECYCLING DEPARTMENT, held by City of Florence, holds NPDES permit ALG180870. EPA’s file records it issued August 22, 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 filed	FLORENCE RECYCLING DEPARTMENT
Permittee as filed	City of Florence
NPDES ID	ALG180870
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	August 22, 2017
Expiration date	September 30, 2022
Address	Florence, AL 35630
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Sweetwater Creek-Tennessee River (HUC 060300050803)
NAICS	423930 – Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers
SIC	5093 – 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

14Pollutants on file
14Under a numeric limit
1With 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
Annual Certification Statement	1	1
pH	4	0
Solids, total suspended	2	0
Oil & Grease	2	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	2	0
Rainfall	2	0
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]	2	0
Cyanide, total [as CN]	1	0
Silver total recoverable	1	0
Zinc, total [as Zn]	1	0
Cadmium, total recoverable	1	0
Lead, total recoverable	1	0
Copper, total recoverable	1	0
Mercury, total [as Hg]	1	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ALG180870.

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 ALG180870.

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.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit ALG180870, held by City of Florence for the FLORENCE RECYCLING DEPARTMENT in Florence, AL, with an administratively continued status and a Minor Discharger class of 14. The listed figures show 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and the permit's recorded issue and expiration dates are August 22, 2017 and September 30, 2022.