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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1020005

CHERRY TREE REFUSE FACILITY, Ashford, WV: NPDES WV1020005 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CHERRY TREE REFUSE FACILITY, held by LEXINGTON COAL COMPANY, LLC, holds NPDES permit WV1020005, which discharges to Coal Rv. EPA’s file records it issued December 1, 2017 and expiring November 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 filedCHERRY TREE REFUSE FACILITY
Permittee as filedLEXINGTON COAL COMPANY, LLC
NPDES IDWV1020005
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
IssuedDecember 1, 2017
Expiration dateNovember 27, 2022
AddressAshford, WV 25009
Receiving waterCOAL RV
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedLower Little Coal River (HUC 050500090503)
SIC1221 – 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

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
Selenium, total recoverable1111048April 30, 2025196% over the limit
Manganese, total [as Mn]502,36043January 31, 2026490% over the limit
Aluminum, total [as Al]622,4024February 28, 2021916% over the limit
Iron, total [as Fe]422,2522February 28, 202197% over the limit
Solids, total suspended148791July 31, 20166% over the limit
Specific conductance422,2820
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]412,2800
Sulfate, total [as SO4]402,2760
Solids, total dissolved402,2730
pH322,0970
Solids, settleable99320
Flow rate107840
Stream flow, instantaneous187830
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C4240
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]4240
Coliform, fecal general2120
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant160

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 WV1020005.

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 WV1020005 for the CHERRY TREE REFUSE FACILITY in Ashford, WV, held by LEXINGTON COAL COMPANY, LLC, with its status shown as administratively continued. The page lists 17 pollutants under a numeric limit and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and identifies the permit's receiving water as COAL RV in the Lower Little Coal River (HUC 050500090503) subwatershed.