Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0071471

GREEN ENERGY HOLDINGS LLC, West Frankfort, IL: NPDES IL0071471 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
14Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

GREEN ENERGY HOLDINGS LLC, held by NATIONAL MUSEUM OF COAL MINING, holds NPDES permit IL0071471, which discharges to Ewing Creek,Tiley Creek,Big Muddy. EPA’s file records it issued October 23, 1996 and expiring August 31, 2001. 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	GREEN ENERGY HOLDINGS LLC
Permittee as filed	NATIONAL MUSEUM OF COAL MINING
NPDES ID	IL0071471
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	October 23, 1996
Expiration date	August 31, 2001
Address	West Frankfort, IL 62896
Receiving water	EWING CREEK,TILEY CREEK,BIG MUDDY
Subwatershed	Tilley Creek-Ewing Creek (HUC 071401060409)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

16Pollutants on file
14Under a numeric limit
12With a violation of any kind
5With 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
Chloride [as Cl]	15	58	19	October 31, 2015	116% over the limit
Manganese, total [as Mn]	3	45	11	June 30, 2015	3,030% over the limit
pH	22	500	2	June 30, 2013
Iron, total [as Fe]	15	65	2	September 30, 2012	61% over the limit
Sulfate, total [as SO4]	15	40	2	October 31, 2012	1% over the limit
Solids, settleable	5	213	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	12	77	0
Solids, total suspended	20	62	0
Mercury, total [as Hg]	0	48	0
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]	0	41	0
Alkalinity, total [as CaCO3]	5	31	0
Acidity, total [as CaCO3]	5	31	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	36	0	0
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	5	0	0
Chlorine, total residual	3	0	0
Coliform, fecal general	3	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 IL0071471.

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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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.