Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAR050020

V H HOLMES & SONS INC, Richlands, VA: NPDES VAR050020 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

V H HOLMES & SONS INC, held by V. H. Holmes & Sons, Inc., holds NPDES permit VAR050020, which discharges to Clinch River-Middle Creek. EPA’s file records it issued July 1, 2019 and expiring June 30, 2024. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (October 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	V H HOLMES & SONS INC
Permittee as filed	V. H. Holmes & Sons, Inc.
NPDES ID	VAR050020
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Industrial stormwater
Issued	July 1, 2019
Expiration date	June 30, 2024
Issuing agency	VA DEQ
Address	Richlands, VA 24641
Receiving water	Clinch River-Middle Creek
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Middle Creek-Clinch River (HUC 060102050104)
NAICS	423930 – Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers
SIC	5093 – Scrap And Waste Materials

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

Effluent limits and exceedances

8Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
8With 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
Solids, total suspended	2	7
Iron, total recoverable	2	7
Zinc, total recoverable	2	7
Aluminum, total recoverable	2	7
Cadmium, total recoverable	2	7
Lead, total recoverable	2	7
Chromium, total recoverable	2	7
Copper, total recoverable	2	7

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VAR050020.

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 VAR050020.

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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit VAR050020, held by V. H. Holmes & Sons, Inc. in Richlands, VA, for an industrial stormwater program discharging to Clinch River-Middle Creek. The permit is administratively continued after its June 30, 2024 expiration date, was issued July 1, 2019, and is classed as a minor discharger, with 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.