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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAM081497

SOUTHERN CRESCENT MINE, Honaker, VA: NPDES VAM081497 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SOUTHERN CRESCENT MINE, held by HAROLD KEENE COAL COMPANY, INC., holds NPDES permit VAM081497. EPA’s file records it issued February 18, 2016 and expiring May 9, 2019. 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.

Identity

Facility as filedSOUTHERN CRESCENT MINE
Permittee as filedHAROLD KEENE COAL COMPANY, INC.
NPDES IDVAM081497
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
IssuedFebruary 18, 2016
Expiration dateMay 9, 2019
Issuing agencyVA DMME
AddressHonaker, VA
SubwatershedLaurel Branch-Lewis Creek (HUC 060102050301)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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
Aluminum, total [as Al]31200
Solids, total suspended600
Iron, total [as Fe]600
Manganese, total [as Mn]600
pH400
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant400
Solids, settleable300

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VAM081497.

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 VAM081497.

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 September 15, 2026.

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