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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0080095

RESPONSIBLE ENERGY OPERATIONS LLC, Elizabethtown, IL: NPDES IL0080095 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

RESPONSIBLE ENERGY OPERATIONS LLC holds NPDES permit IL0080095, which discharges to Big Creek. EPA’s file records it issued March 30, 2018 and expiring March 31, 2023. 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 filedRESPONSIBLE ENERGY OPERATIONS LLC
Permittee as filedRESPONSIBLE ENERGY OPERATIONS LLC
NPDES IDIL0080095
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
IssuedMarch 30, 2018
Expiration dateMarch 31, 2023
AddressElizabethtown, IL 62931
Receiving waterBIG CREEK
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedBig Creek (HUC 051402030502)
SIC1241 – Coal Mining Services

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
pH81780
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant81780
Solids, total suspended41340
Iron, total [as Fe]41340
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]4890
Chloride [as Cl]4890
Sulfate, total [as SO4]4890
Manganese, total [as Mn]4720
Mercury, total [as Hg]4720
Alkalinity, total [as CaCO3]2670
Acidity, total [as CaCO3]2670
Solids, settleable1110
Arsenic, total [as As]250
Barium, total [as Ba]250
Cadmium, total [as Cd]250
Chromium, hexavalent [as Cr]250
Chromium, total [as Cr]250
Copper, total [as Cu]250
Lead, total [as Pb]250
Nickel, total [as Ni]250
Silver, total [as Ag]250
Zinc, total [as Zn]250
Selenium, total [as Se]250
Phenolics, total recoverable250

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES IL0080095.

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 IL0080095.

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.

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