Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1024191

SPICE CREEK STRIP, Hamlin, WV: NPDES WV1024191 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SPICE CREEK STRIP, held by GMAX, INC., holds NPDES permit WV1024191, which discharges to Spice Ck/South Fk. EPA’s file records it issued July 24, 2017 and expiring July 20, 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 filed	SPICE CREEK STRIP
Permittee as filed	GMAX, INC.
NPDES ID	WV1024191
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	July 24, 2017
Expiration date	July 20, 2022
Address	Hamlin, WV 25523
Receiving water	SPICE CK/SOUTH FK
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	South Fork Tug Fork-Tug Fork (HUC 050702010201)
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
13Under 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]	48	3,273
Selenium, total recoverable	48	3,264
Aluminum, total [as Al]	48	3,264
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]	48	3,264
Solids, settleable	32	3,185
Iron, total [as Fe]	44	3,180
pH	41	3,173
Specific conductance	41	3,117
Solids, total dissolved	41	3,117
Sulfate, total [as SO4]	41	3,070
Solids, total suspended	42	2,929
Flow rate	16	1,088
Stream flow, instantaneous	16	1,088

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV1024191.

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 WV1024191.

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 EPA public-records page covers NPDES permit WV1024191 for SPICE CREEK STRIP in Hamlin, WV, held by GMAX, INC., with a status of administratively continued and a discharger class of Minor. The permit was issued July 24, 2017 and expired July 20, 2022, and the page lists 13 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.