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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV0050130

DANA TRANSPORT INC., Nitro, WV: NPDES WV0050130 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

DANA TRANSPORT INC., held by DANA TRANSPORT, INC., holds NPDES permit WV0050130, which discharges to Kanawha River. EPA’s file records it issued January 12, 1998 and expiring June 27, 2022. 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 filedDANA TRANSPORT INC.
Permittee as filedDANA TRANSPORT, INC.
NPDES IDWV0050130
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
IssuedJanuary 12, 1998
Expiration dateJune 27, 2022
AddressNitro, WV 25143
Receiving waterKanawha River
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedScary Creek-Kanawha River (HUC 050500080304)
SIC4213 – Trucking, Except Local
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler WVP000006781

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

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
Mercury, total [as Hg]416230March 31, 20142,147,483,650% over the limit
Oil and grease, hexane extr method101813July 31, 20121,359% over the limit
Copper, total [as Cu]41393November 30, 2011662,222,140% over the limit
Zinc, total recoverable2793March 31, 2014456% over the limit
Fluoranthene41382May 31, 20138,275% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C41331May 31, 2011166% over the limit
Solids, total suspended122400
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant101740
pH101680
Phenanthrene41360
Aluminum, total recoverable81060
Iron, total recoverable10720
Nitrogen, nitrite total [as N]2600
Coliform, fecal general2600
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]6420
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]4260
Chlorine, total residual4220
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia4220
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]260
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]060

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
November 28, 2022Management Practice Violations - Violation of a milestone in an orderST6
November 28, 2022Management Practice Violations - Improper Operation and MaintenanceST6
November 20, 2019Management Practice Violations - Violation of a milestone in an orderST6
November 20, 2019Management Practice Violations - Failure to Maintain RecordsST6
November 20, 2019Management Practice Violations - Best Management Practice DeficienciesST6

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 page covers NPDES permit WV0050130, held by DANA TRANSPORT, INC. in Nitro, WV, which discharges to the Kanawha River and is in the Scary Creek-Kanawha River subwatershed (HUC 050500080304). The permit is listed as a minor discharger, administratively continued, with 19 pollutants under a numeric limit and 6 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.