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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1024094

S & M MINE NO. 1, North Spring, WV: NPDES WV1024094 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

S & M MINE NO. 1, held by S & M ENERGY RESOURCES LLC, holds NPDES permit WV1024094, which discharges to Horse Ck. EPA’s file records it issued July 5, 2012 and expiring July 5, 2017. 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 filedS & M MINE NO. 1
Permittee as filedS & M ENERGY RESOURCES LLC
NPDES IDWV1024094
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
IssuedJuly 5, 2012
Expiration dateJuly 5, 2017
AddressNorth Spring, WV 24869
Receiving waterHORSE CK
SubwatershedTurkey Creek-Guyandotte River (HUC 050701010306)

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
Specific conductance3000
Sulfate, total [as SO4]3000
Iron, total [as Fe]3000
Manganese, total [as Mn]3000
Aluminum, total [as Al]3000
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]3000
Solids, total dissolved3000
pH2000
Solids, total suspended1500
Stream flow, instantaneous1200
Solids, settleable900
Flow rate800
Alkalinity, total [as CaCO3]600
Calcium, total [as Ca]600
Magnesium, total [as Mg]600
Sodium, total [as Na]600
Potassium, total [as K]600
Toxicity [chronic], Ceriodaphnia dubia300

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV1024094.

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 17, 2020Permit Violations - Failure to Pay FeesST6
April 21, 2020Permit Violations - Failure to Submit Timely Permit Renewal ApplicationST6
March 23, 2020Reporting Violations - Failure to submit required report (non-DMR non-pretreatment)ST6
February 1, 2019Monitoring Violations - Failure to Monitor for Toxicity RequirementsST6

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 NPDES permit WV1024094 for S & M MINE NO. 1 in North Spring, WV, held by S & M ENERGY RESOURCES LLC, which discharges to Horse Ck within the Turkey Creek-Guyandotte River subwatershed (HUC 050701010306). The permit is administratively continued, has a Minor Discharger classification, and lists 18 pollutants on file, none under a numeric limit and none with an effluent exceedance.