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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES PAL025984

ALCOSAN WASTEWATER TREAT PLANT, Pittsburgh, PA: NPDES PAL025984 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

ALCOSAN WASTEWATER TREAT PLANT, held by ALLEGHENY COUNTY SANITARY AUTH, holds NPDES permit PAL025984. EPA’s file records it issued January 1, 2021 and expiring December 31, 2025. 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 filedALCOSAN WASTEWATER TREAT PLANT
Permittee as filedALLEGHENY COUNTY SANITARY AUTH
NPDES IDPAL025984
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeAssociated permit record
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramBiosolids
IssuedJanuary 1, 2021
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2025
AddressPittsburgh, PA 15233
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedKilbuck Run-Ohio River (HUC 050301010303)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler PAD007200629; ICIS-AIR source PAACH0004200300140

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 PAL025984.

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
August 1, 2025PR: Biosolids - Incineration: Failure to Properly Operate Air Pollution Control Devices Violation (003 - Carbon Monoxide - Average)EP6
January 1, 2025PR: Biosolids - Incineration: Emissions Limits Violation (003)EP6
January 1, 2025PR: Biosolids - Incineration: Failure to Properly Operate Air Pollution Control Devices Violation (002)EP6
January 1, 2024PR: Biosolids - Incineration: Failure to Properly Manage Continuous Monitoring Equipment Violation (002)EP6
January 1, 2024PR: Biosolids - Incineration: Failure to Properly Operate Air Pollution Control Devices Violation (002)EP6
January 1, 2024PR: Biosolids - Incineration: Other Incineration Requirement Violation (002)EP6
January 1, 2024PR: Biosolids - Incineration: Failure to Properly Operate Air Pollution Control Devices Violation (001)EP6
January 1, 2023PR: Biosolids - Incineration: Failure to Properly Operate Air Pollution Control Devices Violation (003)EP6
January 1, 2023PR: Biosolids - Incineration: Failure to Properly Operate Air Pollution Control Devices Violation (002)EP6
January 1, 2022PR: Biosolids - Incineration: Failure to Properly Operate Air Pollution Control Devices Violation (002)EP6
January 1, 2022PR: Biosolids - Incineration: Other Incineration Requirement Violation (002)EP6
January 1, 2022PR: Biosolids - Incineration: Failure to Properly Operate Air Pollution Control Devices Violation (003)EP6
January 1, 2022PR: Biosolids - Incineration: Failure to Properly Manage Continuous Monitoring Equipment Violation (002)EP6
January 1, 2020PR: Biosolids - Incineration: Other Incineration Requirement Violation (003)EP6
January 1, 2020PR: Biosolids - Incineration: Failure to Properly Manage Continuous Monitoring Equipment Violation (003)EP6
January 1, 2019PR: Biosolids - Land Application: Pathogen Reduction ViolationEP6
January 1, 2019PR: Biosolids - Land Application: Vector Attraction Reduction ViolationEP6
January 1, 2019PR: Biosolids - Land Application: Applied to Land at Greater than the Agronomic Rate ViolationEP6
January 1, 2019PR: Biosolids - Land Application: Failure to Notify State Permitting AuthorityEP6
January 1, 2017PR: Biosolids - Incineration: Other Incineration Requirement ViolationEP6
January 1, 2017PR: Biosolids - Incineration: Failure to Properly Manage Continuous Monitoring Equipment ViolationEP6
January 1, 2017PR: Biosolids - Land Application: Invalid Monitoring or Unrepresentative Sample ViolationEP6

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.

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What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit PAL025984 for the ALCOSAN WASTEWATER TREAT PLANT in Pittsburgh, PA, held by ALLEGHENY COUNTY SANITARY AUTH, and lists it as administratively continued with a Minor Discharger class of 0. The page reports 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the Biosolids program and a subwatershed of Kilbuck Run-Ohio River (HUC 050301010303).