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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALR16EEYR

COLBERT FOSSIL PLANT ASH POND 4, Tuscumbia, AL: NPDES ALR16EEYR discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

COLBERT FOSSIL PLANT ASH POND 4, held by Tennessee Valley Authority, holds NPDES permit ALR16EEYR. EPA’s file records it issued April 14, 2010 and expiring April 13, 2011. 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 COLBERT FOSSIL PLANT ASH POND 4: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Tuscumbia, Alabama. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES ALR16EEYR.

Identity

Facility as filedCOLBERT FOSSIL PLANT ASH POND 4
Permittee as filedTennessee Valley Authority
NPDES IDALR16EEYR
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
IssuedApril 14, 2010
Expiration dateApril 13, 2011
AddressTuscumbia, AL 35674
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedTanyard Branch-Cane Creek (HUC 060300050807)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler AL7640006675; ICIS-AIR source AL0000000103300010

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 ALR16EEYR.

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 ALR16EEYR.

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 COLBERT FOSSIL PLANT ASH POND 4 permit, held by Tennessee Valley Authority, is one of 30 general permit coverages in Colbert County, and 16.7% of those 30 were issued earlier than this one. Among those same 30 coverages, 30.0% have a violation on file, while this permit records 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance and 0 pollutants under a numeric limit. Within the Tanyard Branch-Cane Creek subwatershed, the permit is one of 12 NPDES permits, this one included.