Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0077658

KNIGHT HAWK COAL, LLC, Cutler, IL: NPDES IL0077658 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

KNIGHT HAWK COAL, LLC holds NPDES permit IL0077658, which discharges to See Permit. EPA’s file records it issued March 8, 2013 and expiring February 28, 2018. 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	KNIGHT HAWK COAL, LLC
Permittee as filed	KNIGHT HAWK COAL, LLC
NPDES ID	IL0077658
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 8, 2013
Expiration date	February 28, 2018
Address	Cutler, IL 62272
Receiving water	SEE PERMIT
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Cox Creek (HUC 071401050201)
SIC	1221 – Bituminous Coal And Lignite - Surface

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

13Pollutants on file
13Under a numeric limit
7With a violation of any kind
6With 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
Solids, total suspended	32	10	10	February 28, 2023	83% over the limit
Sulfate, total [as SO4]	24	10	10	December 31, 2016	51% over the limit
Iron, total [as Fe]	32	5	5	May 31, 2020	513% over the limit
pH	64	4	4	September 30, 2018
Solids, settleable	8	3	3	June 30, 2018	39,900% over the limit
Sulfate [as S]	8	2	2	June 30, 2017	23% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	64	2	0
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]	32	0	0
Chloride [as Cl]	32	0	0
Manganese, total [as Mn]	19	0	0
Alkalinity, total [as CaCO3]	16	0	0
Acidity, total [as CaCO3]	16	0	0
Mercury, total [as Hg]	6	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 IL0077658.

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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit IL0077658 held by KNIGHT HAWK COAL, LLC in Cutler, IL, which is administratively continued and was issued March 8, 2013 with an expiration date of February 28, 2018. The page lists 13 pollutants on file, 6 of which are under a numeric limit and 6 of which show an effluent exceedance.