Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALG340222

BIG ESCAMBIA CREEK FACILITY, Atmore, AL: NPDES ALG340222 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
11Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BIG ESCAMBIA CREEK FACILITY, held by Escambia Operating Company, LLC, holds NPDES permit ALG340222. EPA’s file records it issued January 30, 2017 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	BIG ESCAMBIA CREEK FACILITY
Permittee as filed	Escambia Operating Company, LLC
NPDES ID	ALG340222
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	January 30, 2017
Expiration date	January 31, 2022
Address	Atmore, AL 36502
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Lower Big Escambia Creek (HUC 031403050301)
NAICS	211130 – Natural Gas Extraction
SIC	1311 – Crude Petroleum And Natural Gas
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ALD000652669; ICIS-AIR source AL0000000105300007

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

13Pollutants on file
11Under a numeric limit
13With a violation of any kind
3With 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
Benzene	8	16	5	April 30, 2017	455% over the limit
pH	16	55	2	March 31, 2015
Oil and grease	0	9	1	January 31, 2012	300% over the limit
Methyl tert-butyl ether [MTBE]	8	20	0
Naphthalene	8	19	0
Oil & Grease	8	11	0
Toluene	8	11	0
Ethylbenzene	8	11	0
Xylene [mix of m+o+p]	8	11	0
Rainfall	6	10	0
Benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, xylene combination	0	8	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	6	0
Lead, total recoverable	2	1	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 ALG340222.

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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit ALG340222 for the BIG ESCAMBIA CREEK FACILITY in Atmore, AL, held by Escambia Operating Company, LLC, which is listed as a minor discharger under administratively continued status with an issue date of January 30, 2017 and an expiration date of January 31, 2022. The page lists 3 pollutants under a numeric limit and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, within the Lower Big Escambia Creek subwatershed (HUC 031403050301).