Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0048691

EXXONMOBIL COAL USA, INC, Albers, IL: NPDES IL0048691 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

EXXONMOBIL COAL USA, INC holds NPDES permit IL0048691, which discharges to Grassy Branch Of Sugar Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 21, 2012 and expiring August 31, 2017. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	EXXONMOBIL COAL USA, INC
Permittee as filed	EXXONMOBIL COAL USA, INC
NPDES ID	IL0048691
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	September 21, 2012
Expiration date	August 31, 2017
Address	Albers, IL 62215
Receiving water	GRASSY BRANCH OF SUGAR CREEK
Subwatershed	Grassy Branch-Sugar Creek (HUC 071402040106)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ILD099669749

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

12Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
12With a violation of any kind
2With 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	Largest exceedance, as filed
Manganese, total [as Mn]	2	8	2	September 30, 2025	26% over the limit
Solids, settleable	2	9	1	October 31, 2008	19,900% over the limit
pH	10	16	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	8	12	0
Solids, total suspended	4	12	0
Iron, total [as Fe]	4	12	0
Mercury, total [as Hg]	2	7	0
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]	4	6	0
Chloride [as Cl]	4	6	0
Sulfate, total [as SO4]	4	6	0
Alkalinity, total [as CaCO3]	2	6	0
Acidity, total [as CaCO3]	2	6	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 IL0048691.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit IL0048691, held by EXXONMOBIL COAL USA, INC at Albers, IL, which discharges to Grassy Branch Of Sugar Creek within subwatershed HUC 071402040106. The permit is listed as an administratively continued individual permit, classed as a minor discharger, with an issue date of September 21, 2012 and an expiration date of August 31, 2017. The page lists 12 effluent limits, of which 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance are recorded.