Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1024167

MINE #52, Daniels, WV: NPDES WV1024167 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

MINE #52, held by BLUESTONE COAL CORPORATION, holds NPDES permit WV1024167, which discharges to Bottom Ck. 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 #52
Permittee as filed	BLUESTONE COAL CORPORATION
NPDES ID	WV1024167
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	Daniels, WV 25832
Receiving water	BOTTOM CK
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Outlet Elkhorn Creek (HUC 050702010203)
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
5With a violation of any kind
3With 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	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
Solids, total suspended	9	128	8	May 31, 2025	1,423% over the limit
Iron, total [as Fe]	15	282	3	May 31, 2025	263% over the limit
pH	11	218	2	July 31, 2025
Stream flow, instantaneous	4	102	0
Flow rate	6	80	0
Specific conductance	12	0	0
Sulfate, total [as SO4]	12	0	0
Manganese, total [as Mn]	12	0	0
Aluminum, total [as Al]	12	0	0
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]	12	0	0
Solids, total dissolved	3	0	0
Solids, settleable	1	0	0

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 WV1024167.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit WV1024167 for MINE #52 in Daniels, WV, held by BLUESTONE COAL CORPORATION, with the permit status listed as administratively continued and the discharger class as minor. The facts list 12 pollutants under a numeric limit, of which 3 show an effluent exceedance, and the permit's issue date of December 5, 2011 and expiration date of December 5, 2016 as stood when the record was loaded on October 14, 2026.