The Industrial Program develops and regulates the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program for industrial sources and the Pretreatment program for significant indirect industrial sources. Under the NPDES program, industrial facilities are permitted to discharge storm water and/or wastewater to surface waters. Under the State Indirect Discharge (SID) program facilities are permitted to discharge to publicly or privately owned wastewater treatment works (POTW's).

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Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Program

General Overview

The Alabama Scrap Tire Environmental Quality Act was passed in 2003 to comprehensively regulate scrap tire accumulations and to provide for cleanup and remediation of illegal scrap tire piles. The Act placed a $1.00 per tire fee on all replacement tires sold to establish a scrap tire fund, and required ADEM to develop a program to regulate the management of scrap tires. 

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The Clean Water Act and Federal regulations require construction site operators to obtain NPDES permit coverage for regulated land disturbances and associated discharges of stormwater runoff to State waters.

Effective April 1, 2011, ADEM established General NPDES Permit No. ALR100000 for discharges associated with regulated construction activity that will result in land disturbance equal to or greater than one acre or from construction activities involving less than one acre and which are part of a common plan of development or sale equal to or greater than one acre.

ADEM certifies laboratories to perform testing of drinking water in the state. Public water systems must use these laboratories (or laboratories certified by EPA) for nearly all required monitoring. Consumers may also consider the use of a certified laboratory to test private wells.

Sanitary Sewer Overflow Map
The Sanitary Sewer Overflow map allows users to see the locations of SSOs that have been reported to the Department. They are displayed on the map for 10 days after the SSO has ceased. The colors indicate the volume of the discharge.
Click on any dot on the map and a popup will display information about the SSO(s).