Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALG250072

CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS, Birmingham, AL: NPDES ALG250072 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
4Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS, held by ALABAMA POWER COMPANY, holds NPDES permit ALG250072, which discharges to Valley Creek. EPA’s file records it issued August 18, 2008 and expiring March 31, 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	CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS
Permittee as filed	ALABAMA POWER COMPANY
NPDES ID	ALG250072
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	August 18, 2008
Expiration date	March 31, 2012
Issuing agency	ADEM
Address	Birmingham, AL 35291
Receiving water	VALLEY CREEK
Subwatershed	Headwaters Valley Creek (HUC 031601120101)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ALD980217681; ICIS-AIR source ALJEF0000107300456

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

4Pollutants on file
4Under a numeric limit
4With a violation of any kind
1With 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	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance
pH	2	10	4	December 31, 2012
Chlorine, total residual	2	26	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	1	3	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	1	3	0

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 ALG250072.

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 ALG250072, held by ALABAMA POWER COMPANY for CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS in Birmingham, AL, which discharges to Valley Creek in the Headwaters Valley Creek subwatershed (HUC 031601120101). The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a Minor Discharger class, 1 pollutant under a numeric limit, and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance.