Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1022580

LAUREL CREEK NO. 1 SURFACE MINE, Roanoke, VA: NPDES WV1022580 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

LAUREL CREEK NO. 1 SURFACE MINE, held by CALDWELL TRAILBLAZER, LLC, holds NPDES permit WV1022580, which discharges to Laurel Ck/Piney Ck. EPA’s file records it issued January 15, 2016 and expiring January 14, 2021. 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	LAUREL CREEK NO. 1 SURFACE MINE
Permittee as filed	CALDWELL TRAILBLAZER, LLC
NPDES ID	WV1022580
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	January 15, 2016
Expiration date	January 14, 2021
Address	Roanoke, VA 24011
Receiving water	LAUREL CK/PINEY CK
Subwatershed	Headwaters Piney Creek (HUC 050500040102)
SIC	1221 – Bituminous Coal And Lignite - Surface

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

12Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
12With 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
Sulfate, total [as SO4]	60	898
Specific conductance	60	877
Solids, total dissolved	60	877
Iron, total [as Fe]	60	825
Manganese, total [as Mn]	60	825
Aluminum, total [as Al]	60	825
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]	60	825
pH	58	818
Solids, total suspended	54	765
Flow rate	36	510
Solids, settleable	18	256
Stream flow, instantaneous	4	40

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV1022580.

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 WV1022580.

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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit WV1022580 for the LAUREL CREEK NO. 1 SURFACE MINE in Roanoke, VA, held by CALDWELL TRAILBLAZER, LLC, which discharges to Laurel Ck/Piney Ck. The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a Minor discharger class, 0 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. The permit was issued January 15, 2016 and was set to expire January 14, 2021, with the status as of October 14, 2026.