Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES PAM122048

KEYSTONE ANTHRACITE BEAR RIDGE MINE, Ringtown, PA: NPDES PAM122048 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
1Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

KEYSTONE ANTHRACITE BEAR RIDGE MINE, held by KEYSTONE ANTHRACITE CO INC, holds NPDES permit PAM122048, which discharges to Shenandoah Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 29, 2023 and expiring March 27, 2026. 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	KEYSTONE ANTHRACITE BEAR RIDGE MINE
Permittee as filed	KEYSTONE ANTHRACITE CO INC
NPDES ID	PAM122048
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	September 29, 2023
Expiration date	March 27, 2026
Issuing agency	State Environmental Organization
Address	Ringtown, PA 17967
Receiving water	Shenandoah Creek
Subwatershed	Messers Run-Catawissa Creek (HUC 020501070803)
SIC	1231 – Anthracite Mining

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

1Pollutants on file
1Under a numeric limit
1With 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
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	1	3	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES PAM122048.

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 PAM122048.

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

This public-records page covers NPDES permit PAM122048 for the Keystone Anthracite Bear Ridge Mine in Ringtown, PA, held by Keystone Anthracite Co Inc, with the permit's status shown as administratively continued and the discharger class listed as Minor. The page lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and gives the issue date as September 29, 2023 and the expiration date as March 27, 2026. Receiving water is Shenandoah Creek, in the Messers Run-Catawissa Creek subwatershed (HUC 020501070803).