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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALG180874

BROWN'S ALUMINUM & CATALYTIC CONVERTERS, Somerville, AL: NPDES ALG180874 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BROWN'S ALUMINUM & CATALYTIC CONVERTERS, held by Brown's Aluminum & Catalytic Converters, holds NPDES permit ALG180874. EPA’s file records it issued October 20, 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.

What the register holds for BROWN'S ALUMINUM & CATALYTIC CONVERTERS: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Somerville, Alabama, and 19 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES ALG180874.

Identity

Facility as filedBROWN'S ALUMINUM & CATALYTIC CONVERTERS
Permittee as filedBrown's Aluminum & Catalytic Converters
NPDES IDALG180874
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
IssuedOctober 20, 2017
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2022
AddressSomerville, AL 35670
SubwatershedGill Creek-Town Creek (HUC 060300020604)
NAICS562998 – All Other Miscellaneous Waste Management Services
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
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
Annual Certification Statement100
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 ALG180874.

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 ALG180874.

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 the NPDES discharge permit ALG180874 held by Brown's Aluminum & Catalytic Converters in Somerville, Alabama, which EPA's file records as issued October 20, 2017 and expiring September 30, 2022. The register lists the permit as administratively continued, a Minor discharger class, with 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance and 19 pollutants under a numeric limit.