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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAG409028

DICKENSON COUNTY BOS - RAKES RIDGE RD STP, Birchleaf, VA: NPDES VAG409028 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

DICKENSON COUNTY BOS - RAKES RIDGE RD STP, held by James Donald Thomas, holds NPDES permit VAG409028, which discharges to Russell Fork-Pawpaw 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 (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

What the register holds for DICKENSON COUNTY BOS - RAKES RIDGE RD STP: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Birchleaf, Virginia, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES VAG409028.

Identity

Facility as filedDICKENSON COUNTY BOS - RAKES RIDGE RD STP
Permittee as filedJames Donald Thomas
NPDES IDVAG409028
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedAugust 2, 2021
Expiration dateJuly 31, 2026
Issuing agencyVirginia
AddressBirchleaf, VA 24220
Receiving waterRussell Fork-Pawpaw Creek
SubwatershedPawpaw Creek-Russell Fork (HUC 050702020406)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES VAG409028.

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 VAG409028.

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 September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

The DICKENSON COUNTY BOS - RAKES RIDGE RD STP permit is one of 12 general permit coverages in Birchleaf, and 8.3% of those coverages have a violation on file. Among the 16 NPDES permits in the Pawpaw Creek-Russell Fork subwatershed, this permit is counted as one, and it records zero pollutants with an effluent exceedance and zero pollutants under a numeric limit. None of the 12 Birchleaf coverages, including this one, was issued before it, as shown by the 0.0% figure for earlier issue dates.