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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALG180052

HUNTSVILLE RECYCLING, Huntsville, AL: NPDES ALG180052 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

HUNTSVILLE RECYCLING, held by PROGRESS RAIL SERVICES CORP, holds NPDES permit ALG180052, which discharges to Ut Hambrick Branch. EPA’s file records it issued September 19, 2007 and expiring September 30, 2012. 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 filedHUNTSVILLE RECYCLING
Permittee as filedPROGRESS RAIL SERVICES CORP
NPDES IDALG180052
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
IssuedSeptember 19, 2007
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2012
AddressHuntsville, AL 35802
Receiving waterUT HAMBRICK BRANCH
SubwatershedAcuff Spring-Flint River (HUC 060300020403)

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
Oil and grease252December 31, 2008532% over the limit
pH460
Silver total recoverable250
Zinc, total [as Zn]250
Cadmium, total recoverable250
Copper, total recoverable250
Lead, total recoverable240
Solids, total suspended230
Rainfall230
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]230
Cyanide, total [as CN]120
Benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, xylene combination120
Naphthalene120
Mercury, total [as Hg]120
Nitrogen, total [as N]110

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 ALG180052.

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.