Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES PA0259403

WALTERS MINE, Chicora, PA: NPDES PA0259403 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

EffectivePermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

WALTERS MINE, held by AMERIKOHL MINING INC, holds NPDES permit PA0259403, which discharges to Buffalo Creek. EPA’s file records it issued February 6, 2019 and expiring March 16, 2024. 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 WALTERS MINE: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Chicora, Pennsylvania, its receiving water, and 9 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES PA0259403.

Identity

Facility as filed	WALTERS MINE
Permittee as filed	AMERIKOHL MINING INC
NPDES ID	PA0259403
Permit status	Effective
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	February 6, 2019
Expiration date	March 16, 2024
Issuing agency	State Environmental Organization
Address	Chicora, PA 16025
Receiving water	Buffalo Creek
Subwatershed	Headwaters Buffalo Creek (HUC 050100090102)
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

9Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
0With a violation of any kind
0With 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
pH	14	0	0
Alkalinity, total [as CaCO3]	7	0	0
Acidity, total [as CaCO3]	7	0	0
Solids, total suspended	7	0	0
Iron, total [as Fe]	7	0	0
Alkalinity - Acidity [as CaCO3]	7	0	0
Manganese, total [as Mn]	4	0	0
Aluminum, total [as Al]	4	0	0
Solids, settleable	3	0	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES PA0259403.

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

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES PA0259403.

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 the NPDES discharge permit PA0259403 held by AMERIKOHL MINING INC for WALTERS MINE in Chicora, Pennsylvania, which discharges to Buffalo Creek. The facts list a status of Effective, a Minor discharger class, 9 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. The permit was issued February 6, 2019 and expires March 16, 2024, with the status as of October 14, 2026.