Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1024124

MINE NO. 53, Beckley, WV: NPDES WV1024124 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

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

MINE NO. 53, held by BLUESTONE COAL CORPORATION, holds NPDES permit WV1024124, which discharges to Bearwallow Br. EPA’s file records it issued December 5, 2011 and expiring December 5, 2016. 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	MINE NO. 53
Permittee as filed	BLUESTONE COAL CORPORATION
NPDES ID	WV1024124
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	December 5, 2011
Expiration date	December 5, 2016
Address	Beckley, WV 25801
Receiving water	BEARWALLOW BR
Subwatershed	Headwaters Elkhorn Creek (HUC 050702010202)
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

13Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
13With 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
Manganese, total [as Mn]	9	558
Aluminum, total [as Al]	9	558
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]	9	558
Iron, total [as Fe]	9	548
Sulfate, total [as SO4]	8	520
pH	8	492
Specific conductance	8	484
Solids, total dissolved	8	484
Stream flow, instantaneous	4	246
Solids, settleable	3	198
Solids, total suspended	3	192
Selenium, total recoverable	0	189
Flow rate	2	128

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV1024124.

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 WV1024124.

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 the NPDES permit WV1024124, held by BLUESTONE COAL CORPORATION for MINE NO. 53 in Beckley, WV, which discharges to BEARWALLOW BR within the Headwaters Elkhorn Creek subwatershed (HUC 050702010202). The permit is listed as an individual, minor-discharger permit that is administratively continued, with its issued and expiration dates taken from EPA's file as loaded on October 14, 2026. The page lists 13 pollutants on file, of which 12 are under a numeric limit, and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.