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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV0097527

DEEP MINE NO. 2, Cucumber, VA: NPDES WV0097527 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

DEEP MINE NO. 2, held by BAYSTAR COAL COMPANY, INC., holds NPDES permit WV0097527, which discharges to Tug Fk. EPA’s file records it issued June 1, 2018 and expiring February 27, 2023. 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 filedDEEP MINE NO. 2
Permittee as filedBAYSTAR COAL COMPANY, INC.
NPDES IDWV0097527
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
IssuedJune 1, 2018
Expiration dateFebruary 27, 2023
AddressCucumber, VA 24826
Receiving waterTUG FK
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedJacobs Fork (HUC 050702010102)

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
Manganese, total [as Mn]183390
Aluminum, total [as Al]183390
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]183390
Iron, total [as Fe]163350
Specific conductance153100
Sulfate, total [as SO4]153100
Solids, total dissolved153100
pH132920
Solids, total suspended91620
Solids, settleable91620
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]01620
Stream flow, instantaneous61120
Flow rate61080

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV0097527.

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 WV0097527.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES WV0097527 for DEEP MINE NO. 2 in Cucumber, VA, held by BAYSTAR COAL COMPANY, INC., with its permit status listed as administratively continued. The page lists 13 pollutants on file, 12 under a numeric limit, and 0 with an effluent exceedance.