Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALP000138

HANWHA ADVANCED MATERIALS AMERICA, LLC, Opelika, AL: NPDES ALP000138 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

HANWHA ADVANCED MATERIALS AMERICA, LLC, held by Hanwha Advanced Materials America, holds NPDES permit ALP000138. EPA’s file records it issued December 11, 2017 and expiring December 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.

Identity

Facility as filed	HANWHA ADVANCED MATERIALS AMERICA, LLC
Permittee as filed	Hanwha Advanced Materials America
NPDES ID	ALP000138
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual industrial user permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	December 11, 2017
Expiration date	December 31, 2022
Address	Opelika, AL 36801

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

9Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
9With a violation of any kind
1With 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
pH	2	5	1	September 30, 2017
Oil & Grease	2	4	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	1	2	0
Solids, total suspended	1	2	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	1	2	0
Copper, total [as Cu]	1	2	0
Nickel, total [as Ni]	1	2	0
Zinc, total [as Zn]	1	2	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	1	2	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 ALP000138.

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.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit ALP000138 held by HANWHA ADVANCED MATERIALS AMERICA, LLC in Opelika, AL, an administratively continued minor discharger permit issued December 11, 2017 and expiring December 31, 2022. The page lists 9 pollutants on file, 9 of them under a numeric limit, and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance.