Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES KY0113638

KENTUCKY FUEL CORP, Meta, KY: NPDES KY0113638 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

EffectivePermit status
MinorDischarger class
15Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

KENTUCKY FUEL CORP, held by Kentucky Fuel Corp, holds NPDES permit KY0113638. EPA’s file records it issued February 13, 2025 and expiring March 31, 2030. 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	KENTUCKY FUEL CORP
Permittee as filed	Kentucky Fuel Corp
NPDES ID	KY0113638
Permit status	Effective
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	February 13, 2025
Expiration date	March 31, 2030
Address	Meta, KY 41501
Subwatershed	Raccoon Creek-Johns Creek (HUC 050702030302)
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

15Pollutants on file
15Under a numeric limit
13With a violation of any kind
2With 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
Selenium, dry weight	28	6	6	June 30, 2025	121% over the limit
Toxicity, Chronic	7	6	6	September 30, 2025	5,170% over the limit
Specific conductance	106	102	0
pH	106	102	0
Sulfate, total [as SO4]	106	102	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	106	102	0
Date of Sample Collection	106	102	0
Date of Storm Event	106	102	0
Precipitation volume	106	102	0
Solids, settleable	67	55	0
Solids, total suspended	28	8	0
Iron, total recoverable	28	8	0
Manganese, total recoverable	28	8	0
Selenium, total recoverable	14	0	0
Report due [yrmoda]	7	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

1Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
February 25, 2026	Effluent Violations - Failed Toxicity Test	ST6

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit KY0113638, held by KENTUCKY FUEL CORP at Meta, KY, which is an effective Minor Discharger individual permit. The facts list 15 pollutants on file, 15 under a numeric limit, 13 with a violation of any kind, and 2 with an effluent exceedance.