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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALG340299

BESSEMER FACILITY, Bessemer, AL: NPDES ALG340299 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BESSEMER FACILITY, held by HOLMES OIL COMPANY ONC, holds NPDES permit ALG340299, which discharges to Halls Creek. EPA’s file records it issued January 16, 2007 and expiring January 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 filedBESSEMER FACILITY
Permittee as filedHOLMES OIL COMPANY ONC
NPDES IDALG340299
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
IssuedJanuary 16, 2007
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2012
AddressBessemer, AL 35020
Receiving waterHALLS CREEK
SubwatershedFive Mile Creek-Valley Creek (HUC 031601120102)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler ALR000029850; ICIS-AIR source ALJEF0000107300163

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

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
pH0240
Xylene [mix of m+o+p]0130
Oil & Grease0120
Methyl tert-butyl ether [MTBE]0120
Toluene0120
Benzene0120
Ethylbenzene0120
Naphthalene0120
Rainfall0120

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ALG340299.

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 ALG340299.

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.

What this page shows

The BESSEMER FACILITY permit, held by HOLMES OIL COMPANY ONC, ranks with 0.0% of the 212 storm water industrial permits in Jefferson County issued before it, which places it among the earliest in that group, while 72.2% of those 212 permits have a violation on file, a figure this permit does not share since it has none of the recorded violations or effluent exceedances. It is one of 70 NPDES permits in the Five Mile Creek-Valley Creek subwatershed, and it is administratively continued under a general permit coverage that expires January 31, 2012.