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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAM082128

LOUIS LOWE MINE, Drill, VA: NPDES VAM082128 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

LOUIS LOWE MINE, held by HAROLD KEENE COAL COMPANY, INC., holds NPDES permit VAM082128. EPA’s file records it issued November 7, 2014 and expiring November 7, 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.

What the register holds for LOUIS LOWE MINE: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Drill, Virginia, and 7 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES VAM082128.

Identity

Facility as filedLOUIS LOWE MINE
Permittee as filedHAROLD KEENE COAL COMPANY, INC.
NPDES IDVAM082128
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
IssuedNovember 7, 2014
Expiration dateNovember 7, 2019
Issuing agencyVA DMME
AddressDrill, VA
SubwatershedHurricane Creek-Russell Fork (HUC 050702020401)

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
Solids, total suspended8100
Solids, settleable8100
Iron, total [as Fe]8100
Manganese, total [as Mn]8100
Solids, total dissolved [TDS]8100
pH5400
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant5400

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VAM082128.

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 VAM082128.

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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