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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALG890146

HIGGINS BORROW PIT, Fort Payne, AL: NPDES ALG890146 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

HIGGINS BORROW PIT, held by Brenda Higgins, holds NPDES permit ALG890146. EPA’s file records it issued September 30, 2013 and expiring January 31, 2018. 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.

What the register holds for HIGGINS BORROW PIT: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Fort Payne, Alabama. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES ALG890146.

Identity

Facility as filedHIGGINS BORROW PIT
Permittee as filedBrenda Higgins
NPDES IDALG890146
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
IssuedSeptember 30, 2013
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2018
AddressFort Payne, AL 35967
SubwatershedHeadwaters Big Wills Creek (HUC 031501060101)
NAICS212399 – All Other Nonmetallic Mineral Mining
SIC1459 – Clay And Related Minerals

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES ALG890146.

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 ALG890146.

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.

What this page shows

The HIGGINS BORROW PIT storm water industrial permit, ALG890146, is one of 39 such permits in DeKalb County, and 10.3% of those 39 were issued before it, while 59.0% of them have a violation on file. The permit records zero pollutants under a numeric limit and zero pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it sits among 42 NPDES permits in the Headwaters Big Wills Creek subwatershed.