Alabama NPDES permit search
Status, expiry and violations for 255 municipal wastewater permits · issued by ADEM
In short
How do I look up an NPDES permit in Alabama?
Search this page by permit number or plant name for a municipal plant’s permit status, expiry date and violations. For the official file, search ADEM’s eFile or the AEPACS nSITE Explorer. EPA’s ECHO database shows the monitoring results and violations of every permit. The 3,094 industrial permits in Alabama are listed in Klarifi with a free account.
Links to official sources checked September 2026.
Effective
211
Administratively continued
43
Expired
0
Plants with effluent violations, 3 years
183
Where to find official Alabama NPDES records
Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) runs the NPDES program in Alabama under authorization from EPA Region 4. It issues and enforces the permits and keeps the official file: applications, permits, fact sheets and monitoring reports. ADEM website ↗
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ADEM’s document search. Tick Water, type the permit number (for example AL0054658) or part of the facility name, or pick a county, and click Search; narrow the list by a category such as Permitting and download the files.
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A map search of ADEM permits by permit number or facility name. ADEM warns that its data may be incomplete and points to eFile for the record.
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EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance History Online. Search water facilities by permit number, name or city; the Detailed Facility Report lists inspections, violations and enforcement actions, and Effluent Charts plot monitoring results against the permit limits.
- Permit numbers
- Individual permits are AL plus seven digits (AL0054658); general permits and their coverages start with ALG, stormwater general permits with ALR. eFile also indexes facilities by an ADEM Master ID.
- Discharge monitoring reports
- Through AEPACS, ADEM’s own permitting and compliance system, since November 2021.
- Violations and enforcement
- ADEM’s enforcement orders by fiscal year ↗
Industrial and commercial NPDES permits in Alabama
Most NPDES permits are not held by municipal plants. EPA’s permit database lists 3,094 individual permits in force for industrial and commercial facilities in Alabama (manufacturers, food processors, mines, power plants, landfills), 133 of them major dischargers, plus 8,254 facilities covered by a general permit, mostly for stormwater. 275 of the individual permits recorded at least one effluent violation in the last three years.
| Facility | Permit | Status | Expires | Effluent violations |
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Unlock 3,094 industrial permits in Alabama
Search every industrial and commercial discharger in Alabama by name or permit number, with permit status, expiry and violation history. Free with a Klarifi account.
Industrial and commercial NPDES permits in Alabama: permits in force (effective or administratively continued) held by facilities EPA does not class as publicly owned treatment works or federal facilities. Source: EPA ICIS-NPDES via Klarifi, October 2026.
Violations at Alabama wastewater plants
183 of the 255 municipal plants on this page recorded at least one effluent violation, a monitored value above a permit limit, in the last three years, and 193 had a violation of any kind, including late or missing monitoring reports. Each plant’s page shows its own count. EPA’s enforcement records list 38 formal cases naming Alabama wastewater plants, 0 of them since fiscal year 2020, with $1.1 million in penalties assessed. Enforcement cases in Alabama →
Permit renewals by year
An NPDES permit runs for five years. To keep discharging, a plant must apply for renewal at least 180 days before the expiry date, and the renewed permit usually arrives with tighter effluent limits, new monitoring requirements or a compliance schedule. That is why the year a permit expires is the year a plant starts budgeting for upgrades: nutrient removal, disinfection, capacity or controls.
2029: 29 permits
2030: 46 permits
2031: 32 permits
Largest permit holders in Alabama
| Facility | City | Avg flow (MGD) | Design (MGD) | NPDES permit | Status | Expires | Violations (3y) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valley Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant | Bessemer | 37.73 | — | ALL023655 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 1 |
| Cypress Creek WWTP | Florence | 6.86 | 35 | AL0023884 | Effective | Dec 2026 | 4 |
| City Of Huntsville | Madison | 11.76 | 32.5 | AL0049531 | Effective | Jun 2030 | 2 |
| Five Mile Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant | Fultondale | 11.64 | 30 | AL0026913 | Administratively continued | Jun 2026 | 1 |
| Clifton C. Williams Wastewater Treatment Facility | Mobile | 19.38 | 28 | AL0023086 | Administratively continued | Jun 2025 | 60 |
| Village Creek WWTP | Birmingham | 24.6 | — | ALL023647 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 6 |
| Tuscaloosa WWTP | Tuscaloosa | 18.58 | 24 | AL0022713 | Effective | Feb 2028 | 99 |
| Montgomery Enconchate WWTP | Montgomery | 12.66 | 21 | AL0022225 | Effective | May 2031 | 1 |
| Wright Smith Jr Wastewater Treatment Facility | Mobile | 8.31 | 12.8 | AL0023094 | Administratively continued | Nov 2018 | 6 |
| Albertville Waste Water Treatment Plant | Albertville | 7.76 | 11.5 | AL0020192 | Effective | Apr 2027 | 21 |
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Sources and methodology
Flow, permit and violation figures come from the EPA's ICIS-NPDES discharge monitoring records. Population served comes from the Clean Watersheds Needs Survey 2022. Treatment structures are identified by Klarifi's review of aerial imagery, and capital improvement projects are extracted from published municipal budget documents. Violations are counted over the last three years of monitoring reports.
Data refreshed October 12, 2026.
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