Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES CA0084387

KLONDIKE, DUTCH, AND TELEGRAPH TUNNEL MINES, Sierra County, CA: NPDES CA0084387 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
11Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

KLONDIKE, DUTCH, AND TELEGRAPH TUNNEL MINES, held by LAZARUS MINING & USFS,TAHOE NF, holds NPDES permit CA0084387, which discharges to Goodyears Creek. EPA’s file records it issued March 14, 2008 and expiring March 1, 2013. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (October 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	KLONDIKE, DUTCH, AND TELEGRAPH TUNNEL MINES
Permittee as filed	LAZARUS MINING & USFS,TAHOE NF
NPDES ID	CA0084387
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	March 14, 2008
Expiration date	March 1, 2013
Address	Sierra County, CA 95936
Receiving water	GOODYEARS CREEK
Subwatershed	Goodyears Creek-North Yuba River (HUC 180201250301)
SIC	1041 – Gold Ores

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

Effluent limits and exceedances

11Pollutants on file
11Under a numeric limit
8With a violation of any kind
1With an effluent exceedance

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 measure	Limits	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance
pH	4	6	2	June 30, 2018
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	5	0
% Survival Static Renewal 96Hr Acute Pimephales promelas	4	4	0
TU Static 4 Day Chronic Raphidocelis subcapitata (formerly Selenastrum capricornutum)	4	4	0
TU Static Renewal 7-Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia	4	4	0
TU Static Renewal 7-Day Chronic Pimphales promelas	4	4	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	2	2	0
Turbidity	2	2	0
Solids, total suspended	8	0	0
Specific conductance	4	0	0
Solids, settleable	4	0	0

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

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES CA0084387.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit CA0084387 for the Klondike, Dutch, and Telegraph Tunnel Mines in Sierra County, California, held by Lazarus Mining & USFS, Tahoe NF, which discharges to Goodyears Creek. The register lists 11 as the discharger class, 1 pollutant under a numeric limit, and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance, with the permit shown as administratively continued and the EPA file dates of March 14, 2008 issuance and March 1, 2013 expiration.