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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALG150112

ARDENT MILLS, LLC, Decatur, AL: NPDES ALG150112 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

ARDENT MILLS, LLC, held by Ardent Mills, LLC, holds NPDES permit ALG150112. EPA’s file records it issued May 25, 2017 and expiring May 31, 2022. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedARDENT MILLS, LLC
Permittee as filedArdent Mills, LLC
NPDES IDALG150112
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
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedMay 25, 2017
Expiration dateMay 31, 2022
AddressDecatur, AL 35601
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedBakers Creek-Tennessee River (HUC 060300021102)

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
pH8240
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C2100
Solids, total suspended2100
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]2100
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]2100
Phosphorus, total [as P]2100
Rainfall2100
Oil and grease080
Chlorine, total residual440
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit220
Oil & Grease220
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant220

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ALG150112.

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 ALG150112.

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 14, 2026.