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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALR16ECL3

BROWN CHERT PIT, Valley Head, AL: NPDES ALR16ECL3 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BROWN CHERT PIT, held by DeKalb County Commission, holds NPDES permit ALR16ECL3. EPA’s file records it issued January 27, 2011 and expiring February 10, 2012. 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 BROWN CHERT PIT: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Valley Head, Alabama. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES ALR16ECL3.

Identity

Facility as filedBROWN CHERT PIT
Permittee as filedDeKalb County Commission
NPDES IDALR16ECL3
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
IssuedJanuary 27, 2011
Expiration dateFebruary 10, 2012
AddressValley Head, AL 35989
SubwatershedWest Fork Lookout Creek-Dry Creek (HUC 060200011101)
NAICS212399 – All Other Nonmetallic Mineral Mining
SIC1499 – Miscellaneous Nonmetallic 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 ALR16ECL3.

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 ALR16ECL3.

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 BROWN CHERT PIT permit is one of 1 general permit coverage on the register in Valley Head, which makes it the only such coverage in that city. It also ranks among 16 NPDES permits in the West Fork Lookout Creek-Dry Creek subwatershed, counting this one. The permit records no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance.