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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES KY0096784

SIDNEY COAL CO INC (898-5743 & 898-5744), Hatfield, KY: NPDES KY0096784 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SIDNEY COAL CO INC (898-5743 & 898-5744), held by SIDNEY COAL CO INC, holds NPDES permit KY0096784, which discharges to Big Crk. EPA’s file records it issued September 29, 2005 and expiring July 31, 2010. 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 filedSIDNEY COAL CO INC (898-5743 & 898-5744)
Permittee as filedSIDNEY COAL CO INC
NPDES IDKY0096784
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
IssuedSeptember 29, 2005
Expiration dateJuly 31, 2010
AddressHatfield, KY 41514
Receiving waterBIG CRK
SubwatershedLower Big Creek (HUC 050702010502)

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
Chlorine, total residual418220March 31, 200631,718% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]817610March 31, 201394% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general41711May 31, 20072,900% over the limit
Solids, total suspended41760
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]41760
pH41750
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant41740
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]2870
E. coli020

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 KY0096784.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES KY0096784.

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES KY0096784.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES KY0096784, held by SIDNEY COAL CO INC in Hatfield, KY, which discharges to Big Crk in the Lower Big Creek subwatershed (HUC 050702010502). The permit is administratively continued, was issued September 29, 2005 and expires July 31, 2010, and the page lists 9 pollutants on file, 8 under a numeric limit, and 3 with an effluent exceedance.