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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0078107

JOHNSON MINE, Abernant, AL: NPDES AL0078107 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

JOHNSON MINE, held by Cahaba Resources, LLC, holds NPDES permit AL0078107. EPA’s file records it issued November 29, 2012 and expiring November 30, 2017. 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 JOHNSON MINE: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Abernant, Alabama, and 13 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES AL0078107.

Identity

Facility as filedJOHNSON MINE
Permittee as filedCahaba Resources, LLC
NPDES IDAL0078107
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedNovember 29, 2012
Expiration dateNovember 30, 2017
Issuing agencyState
AddressAbernant, AL 35440
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedWoods Creek-Mud Creek (HUC 031601120105)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Solids, total suspended7400
pH5400
Specific conductance3600
Sulfate [as S]3600
Nickel, total recoverable3600
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant3600
Cyanide, free available3600
Iron, total [as Fe]2700
Manganese, total [as Mn]1800
Solids, total dissolved [TDS]1200
Solids, settleable900
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia600
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]600

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES AL0078107.

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 AL0078107.

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.