Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALG340147

THE MCPHERSON COMPANIES, INC. DECATUR FACILITY, Decatur, AL: NPDES ALG340147 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

THE MCPHERSON COMPANIES, INC. DECATUR FACILITY, held by The Mcpherson Companies, Inc., holds NPDES permit ALG340147. EPA’s file records it issued October 18, 2016 and expiring January 31, 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	THE MCPHERSON COMPANIES, INC. DECATUR FACILITY
Permittee as filed	The Mcpherson Companies, Inc.
NPDES ID	ALG340147
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	October 18, 2016
Expiration date	January 31, 2022
Address	Decatur, AL 35601
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Bakers Creek-Tennessee River (HUC 060300021102)
SIC	4214 – Local Trucking With Storage
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ALR000008052

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

11Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
5With a violation of any kind
2With 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	Largest exceedance, as filed
Oil and grease	0	11	5	March 31, 2005	538% over the limit
Benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, xylene combination	0	8	3	December 31, 2003	289% over the limit
pH	4	29	0
Rainfall	2	14	0
Methyl tert-butyl ether [MTBE]	2	7	0
Oil & Grease	2	0	0
Toluene	2	0	0
Benzene	2	0	0
Ethylbenzene	2	0	0
Naphthalene	2	0	0
Xylene [mix of m+o+p]	2	0	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 ALG340147.

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 discharge permit NPDES ALG340147 for The McPherson Companies, Inc. Decatur Facility in Decatur, AL, which is administratively continued and classed as a Minor discharger. The page lists 9 as the discharger class, 2 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.