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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALG850140

BELLEW-CALDWELL CHERT PIT, Ashville, AL: NPDES ALG850140 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BELLEW-CALDWELL CHERT PIT, held by Charles Bellew & Mason Caldwell, holds NPDES permit ALG850140. EPA’s file records it issued November 13, 2017 and expiring March 31, 2022. 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.

What the register holds for BELLEW-CALDWELL CHERT PIT: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Ashville, Alabama. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES ALG850140.

Identity

Facility as filedBELLEW-CALDWELL CHERT PIT
Permittee as filedCharles Bellew & Mason Caldwell
NPDES IDALG850140
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
IssuedNovember 13, 2017
Expiration dateMarch 31, 2022
AddressAshville, AL 35953
SubwatershedLower Big Canoe Creek (HUC 031501060306)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES ALG850140.

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 ALG850140.

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

Of the 30 storm water industrial permits in St. Clair County, 76.7% have a violation on file, and the BELLEW-CALDWELL CHERT PIT permit, issued November 13, 2017, is among the 63.3% of those permits issued before it. The permit, held by Charles Bellew & Mason Caldwell in Ashville, lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it sits among the 11 NPDES permits in the Lower Big Canoe Creek subwatershed.