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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1021354

WESTCHESTER MINE, Raleigh, NC: NPDES WV1021354 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

WESTCHESTER MINE, held by WESTCHESTER COAL LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, holds NPDES permit WV1021354, which discharges to Tug Fk. EPA’s file records it issued March 7, 2014 and expiring September 15, 2018. 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 filedWESTCHESTER MINE
Permittee as filedWESTCHESTER COAL LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
NPDES IDWV1021354
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 7, 2014
Expiration dateSeptember 15, 2018
AddressRaleigh, NC 26613
Receiving waterTUG FK
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedSpice Creek-Tug Fork (HUC 050702010205)

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
Aluminum, total [as Al]151,7722July 31, 2022309% over the limit
Solids, total suspended33551July 31, 202297% over the limit
Manganese, total [as Mn]151,7700
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]151,7700
Iron, total [as Fe]151,6480
Specific conductance151,5260
Sulfate, total [as SO4]151,5260
Solids, total dissolved151,5260
pH141,4080
Stream flow, instantaneous89440
Solids, settleable33570
Flow rate22360

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 WV1021354.

Inspections

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
September 14, 2026Reconnaissance without SamplingS
June 25, 2026Reconnaissance without SamplingS
March 5, 2026SamplingS

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 WV1021354.

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 the NPDES discharge permit WV1021354 for WESTCHESTER MINE, held by WESTCHESTER COAL LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, which discharges to TUG FK and is administratively continued. The page lists 12 pollutants on file, 12 under a numeric limit, and 2 with an effluent exceedance.