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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES PA0242985

RISHEL 1 MINE, Clearfield, PA: NPDES PA0242985 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

RISHEL 1 MINE, held by WAROQUIER COAL CO, holds NPDES permit PA0242985, which discharges to Unt To West Branch Susquehanna River. EPA’s file records it issued February 7, 2017 and expiring November 9, 2021. 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.

What the register holds for RISHEL 1 MINE: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES PA0242985.

Identity

Facility as filedRISHEL 1 MINE
Permittee as filedWAROQUIER COAL CO
NPDES IDPA0242985
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedFebruary 7, 2017
Expiration dateNovember 9, 2021
Issuing agencyState Environmental Organization
AddressClearfield, PA 16830
Receiving waterUNT To West Branch Susquehanna River
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedCurwensville Dam-West Branch Susquehanna River (HUC 020502010408)
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

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES PA0242985.

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 PA0242985.

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.

What this page shows

The RISHEL 1 MINE, filed under permittee WAROQUIER COAL CO, is one of 6 individual permits on EPA's NPDES register in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, and only 16.7% of those 6 permits were issued earlier than this one. The permit records no pollutants under a numeric limit and no effluent exceedances, while 50.0% of the Clearfield individual permits have a violation on file.