Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAG404359

FINE METALS CORPORATION, Ashland, VA: NPDES VAG404359 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
5Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

FINE METALS CORPORATION, held by Fine Metals Corporation, holds NPDES permit VAG404359, which discharges to South Anna River-Cedar Creek. EPA’s file records it issued August 2, 2021 and expiring July 31, 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	FINE METALS CORPORATION
Permittee as filed	Fine Metals Corporation
NPDES ID	VAG404359
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	August 2, 2021
Expiration date	July 31, 2026
Issuing agency	Virginia
Address	Ashland, VA 23005
Receiving water	South Anna River-Cedar Creek
Subwatershed	Cedar Creek-South Anna River (HUC 020801060304)
NAICS	221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC	4952 – Sewerage Systems
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler VAR000502542

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

5Pollutants on file
5Under a numeric limit
5With a violation of any kind
4With 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
E. coli	1	5	4	August 31, 2025	153,091% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	1	4	3	August 31, 2023	627% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	1	4	3	August 31, 2020	273% over the limit
pH	2	3	1	August 31, 2023
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	1	1	0

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 VAG404359.

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 NPDES permit VAG404359, held by FINE METALS CORPORATION in Ashland, VA, which discharges to South Anna River-Cedar Creek in the Cedar Creek-South Anna River watershed (HUC 020801060304). The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a Minor Discharger class, 4 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.