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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALR10C3H7

RICE CREEK, Bessemer, AL: NPDES ALR10C3H7 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

RICE CREEK, held by D.R. Horton, Inc. - Birmingham, holds NPDES permit ALR10C3H7. EPA’s file records it issued February 23, 2023 and expiring March 31, 2026. 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 RICE CREEK: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Bessemer, Alabama. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES ALR10C3H7.

Identity

Facility as filedRICE CREEK
Permittee as filedD.R. Horton, Inc. - Birmingham
NPDES IDALR10C3H7
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramConstruction stormwater
IssuedFebruary 23, 2023
Expiration dateMarch 31, 2026
Issuing agencyState
AddressBessemer, AL 35022
SubwatershedLower Shades Creek (HUC 031502020303)

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 ALR10C3H7.

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 ALR10C3H7.

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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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

The RICE CREEK storm water construction permit, held by D.R. Horton, Inc. - Birmingham in Bessemer, Jefferson County, Alabama, is one of 576 such permits in the county, and it has no violation on file, a rate of 0.0% among its peers. It sits within the Lower Shades Creek subwatershed, where 91 NPDES permits are registered, this one included. Of the 574 storm water construction permits in Jefferson County, 48.4% were issued earlier than this one.