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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0004260

MINERVA MINE #1 AND MILL, Cave-In-Rock, IL: NPDES IL0004260 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

MINERVA MINE #1 AND MILL, held by OZARK-MAHONING MINING, holds NPDES permit IL0004260, which discharges to Sf Rock Creek. EPA’s file records it issued August 29, 1994 and expiring June 1, 1999. 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 filedMINERVA MINE #1 AND MILL
Permittee as filedOZARK-MAHONING MINING
NPDES IDIL0004260
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedAugust 29, 1994
Expiration dateJune 1, 1999
AddressCave-In-Rock, IL 62919
Receiving waterSF ROCK CREEK
SubwatershedRock Creek (HUC 051402040706)
SIC1479 – Chemical And Fertilizer Mining

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

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
Solids, total suspended010

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES IL0004260.

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 IL0004260.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES IL0004260 for Minerva Mine #1 and Mill in Cave-In-Rock, IL, held by Ozark-Mahoning Mining, with a status of administratively continued and a minor discharger classification. The page lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, out of 1 pollutant on file.