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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ING040235

CHILI PEPPER MINE VIGO COAL COMPANY, Boonville, IN: NPDES ING040235 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CHILI PEPPER MINE VIGO COAL COMPANY, held by VIGO COAL CHILI PEPPER MINE, holds NPDES permit ING040235, which discharges to Mccool Ditch, Taylor Ditch, 7 Unnamed Spoil Pond. EPA’s file records it issued October 15, 2008 and expiring October 31, 2013. 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 filedCHILI PEPPER MINE VIGO COAL COMPANY
Permittee as filedVIGO COAL CHILI PEPPER MINE
NPDES IDING040235
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
IssuedOctober 15, 2008
Expiration dateOctober 31, 2013
Issuing agencyIDEM
AddressBoonville, IN 47601
Receiving waterMCCOOL DITCH, TAYLOR DITCH, 7 UNNAMED SPOIL POND
SubwatershedHines Ditch-Cypress Creek (HUC 051402011102)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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 suspended611May 31, 20093% over the limit
pH600
Solids, settleable600
Iron, total [as Fe]600
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant600
Precipitation volume300
Duration of discharge300

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 ING040235.

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.

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