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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALNE00472

SAPUTO CHEESE USA, INC., Decatur, AL: NPDES ALNE00472 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SAPUTO CHEESE USA, INC., held by Saputo Cheese USA, Inc., holds NPDES permit ALNE00472. EPA’s file records it issued March 1, 2023 and expiring February 29, 2028. 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 SAPUTO CHEESE USA, INC.: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Decatur, Alabama. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES ALNE00472.

Identity

Facility as filedSAPUTO CHEESE USA, INC.
Permittee as filedSaputo Cheese USA, Inc.
NPDES IDALNE00472
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedMarch 1, 2023
Expiration dateFebruary 29, 2028
Issuing agencyState
AddressDecatur, AL 35601
SubwatershedLower Flint Creek (HUC 060300021014)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler ALR000024489; ICIS-AIR source AL000000011030SDFU

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES ALNE00472.

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 ALNE00472.

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 SAPUTO CHEESE USA, INC. storm water industrial permit (ALNE00472) in Decatur sits among 92 storm water industrial permits in Morgan County, and 85.9% of those were issued earlier than this one. The permit also shares the Lower Flint Creek subwatershed with 64 NPDES permits, this one included. It has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance, both recorded as 0.