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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ING040023

RESPONSIBLE ENERGY OPERATIONS LLC PRIDES CREEK MINE, Petersburg, IN: NPDES ING040023 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

RESPONSIBLE ENERGY OPERATIONS LLC PRIDES CREEK MINE, held by Responsible Energy Operations LLC Prides Creek Mine, holds NPDES permit ING040023, which discharges to Prides Creek. EPA’s file records it issued July 15, 2019 and expiring August 31, 2024. 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 PRIDES CREEK MINE
Permittee as filedResponsible Energy Operations LLC Prides Creek Mine
NPDES IDING040023
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
IssuedJuly 15, 2019
Expiration dateAugust 31, 2024
Issuing agencyIDEM
AddressPetersburg, IN 47567
Receiving waterPrides Creek
SubwatershedLick Creek-White River (HUC 051202021001)
NAICS212114 – Surface Coal Mining
SIC1221 – 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

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 suspended4259September 30, 2021186% over the limit
Iron, total [as Fe]4237February 28, 2006157% over the limit
pH4202March 31, 2007
Solids, settleable4181August 31, 2021100% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant4180
Duration290
Precipitation volume290

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 ING040023.

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.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES discharge permit ING040023, held by Responsible Energy Operations LLC for the Prides Creek Mine in Petersburg, IN, which discharges to Prides Creek in the Lick Creek-White River subwatershed (HUC 051202021001). The page lists the permit as administratively continued, a Minor Discharger class, with 7 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.