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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES PA0249513

SAYLOR HILL OPR, Meyersdale, PA: NPDES PA0249513 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SAYLOR HILL OPR, held by HERITAGE COAL & NATURAL RESOURCES LLC, holds NPDES permit PA0249513, which discharges to Unt To Casselman River. EPA’s file records it issued April 7, 2017 and expiring August 25, 2019. 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 filedSAYLOR HILL OPR
Permittee as filedHERITAGE COAL & NATURAL RESOURCES LLC
NPDES IDPA0249513
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
IssuedApril 7, 2017
Expiration dateAugust 25, 2019
Issuing agencyState Environmental Organization
AddressMeyersdale, PA 15552
Receiving waterUNT To Casselman River
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedBlue Lick Creek-Casselman River (HUC 050200060704)
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

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
pH0380
Iron, total [as Fe]0320
Solids, total suspended0270
Manganese, total [as Mn]0270
Alkalinity, total [as CaCO3]0190
Acidity, total [as CaCO3]0190
Alkalinity - Acidity [as CaCO3]0190
Aluminum, total [as Al]0170
Temperature, water deg. centigrade0140
Specific conductance0140
Sulfate, total [as SO4]0140
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant0140
Solids, settleable050

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES PA0249513.

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 PA0249513.

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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What this page shows

The SAYLOR HILL OPR permit (NPDES ID PA0249513), issued to HERITAGE COAL & NATURAL RESOURCES LLC in Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, is one of 9 individual permits in that city on EPA's register, this one included. It sits in the Blue Lick Creek-Casselman River subwatershed, where 6 NPDES permits, this one among them, are recorded. Among the 9 Meyersdale individual permits, 11.1% carry an earlier issue date than this one, and the permit has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no effluent exceedances.