Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAM081607

BLACK BEAR SURFACE MINE, Carrie, VA: NPDES VAM081607 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
4Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BLACK BEAR SURFACE MINE, held by PARAMONT CONTURA, LLC, holds NPDES permit VAM081607. EPA’s file records it issued June 26, 2017 and expiring July 9, 2022. 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 BLACK BEAR SURFACE MINE: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Carrie, Virginia, and 4 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES VAM081607.

Identity

Facility as filed	BLACK BEAR SURFACE MINE
Permittee as filed	PARAMONT CONTURA, LLC
NPDES ID	VAM081607
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	June 26, 2017
Expiration date	July 9, 2022
Issuing agency	VA DMME
Address	Carrie, VA
Subwatershed	Cane Creek-Indian Creek (HUC 050702020402)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

4Pollutants on file
4Under 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, settleable	21	0	0
Solids, total dissolved [TDS]	21	0	0
pH	14	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	14	0	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VAM081607.

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 VAM081607.

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.

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES VAM081607 for BLACK BEAR SURFACE MINE in Carrie, VA, held by PARAMONT CONTURA, LLC, with a status of administratively continued and a discharger class of 4. The register lists 4 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and the permit's issue and expiration dates are June 26, 2017 and July 9, 2022.