Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAR051276

ROBINETTE STEEL & SCRAP METAL CO, Big Stone Gap, VA: NPDES VAR051276 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

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

ROBINETTE STEEL & SCRAP METAL CO, held by Robinette Scrap Metal Processing Corporation, holds NPDES permit VAR051276, which discharges to Powell River-Camp 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 (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	ROBINETTE STEEL & SCRAP METAL CO
Permittee as filed	Robinette Scrap Metal Processing Corporation
NPDES ID	VAR051276
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	Big Stone Gap, VA 24219
Receiving water	Powell River-Camp Creek
Subwatershed	Camp Creek-Powell River (HUC 060102060201)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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	8	64
Cadmium, total recoverable	4	35
Iron, total recoverable	4	32
Zinc, total recoverable	4	32
Aluminum, total recoverable	4	32
Lead, total recoverable	4	32
Chromium, total recoverable	4	32
Copper, total recoverable	4	32

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VAR051276.

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 VAR051276.

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 Clean Water Act NPDES permit VAR051276 for ROBINETTE STEEL & SCRAP METAL CO in Big Stone Gap, VA, held by Robinette Scrap Metal Processing Corporation, with a status of administratively continued and a Minor Discharger class. The page lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it names Powell River-Camp Creek as the receiving water within subwatershed HUC 060102060201.