Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAM081539

BUCHANAN PRODUCTION COMPANY-MINE #2, Grundy, VA: NPDES VAM081539 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
5Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BUCHANAN PRODUCTION COMPANY-MINE #2, held by THE BLACK DIAMOND COMPANY, holds NPDES permit VAM081539. EPA’s file records it issued January 6, 2016 and expiring September 25, 2020. 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 BUCHANAN PRODUCTION COMPANY-MINE #2: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Grundy, Virginia, and 5 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES VAM081539.

Identity

Facility as filed	BUCHANAN PRODUCTION COMPANY-MINE #2
Permittee as filed	THE BLACK DIAMOND COMPANY
NPDES ID	VAM081539
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	January 6, 2016
Expiration date	September 25, 2020
Issuing agency	VA DMME
Address	Grundy, VA
Subwatershed	Slate Creek (HUC 050702020106)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

5Pollutants on file
5Under 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
Solids, total suspended	3	0	0
Iron, total [as Fe]	3	0	0
Manganese, total [as Mn]	3	0	0
pH	2	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	0	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VAM081539.

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 VAM081539.

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.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit VAM081539 for BUCHANAN PRODUCTION COMPANY-MINE #2 in Grundy, VA, held by THE BLACK DIAMOND COMPANY, with the permit status shown as administratively continued and a Minor Discharger class 5. The page lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.