Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1024221

AUGER HOLLOW REFUSE DISPOSAL, Bluefield, WV: NPDES WV1024221 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

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

AUGER HOLLOW REFUSE DISPOSAL, held by SOUTHERN MINERALS, INC., holds NPDES permit WV1024221, which discharges to Tug Fk. EPA’s file records it issued September 29, 2017 and expiring December 15, 2021. 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	AUGER HOLLOW REFUSE DISPOSAL
Permittee as filed	SOUTHERN MINERALS, INC.
NPDES ID	WV1024221
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	September 29, 2017
Expiration date	December 15, 2021
Address	Bluefield, WV 24701
Receiving water	TUG FK
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

12Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
12With 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]	6	276
Aluminum, total [as Al]	6	276
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]	6	276
Sulfate, total [as SO4]	5	275
Iron, total [as Fe]	5	275
Solids, total dissolved	5	275
pH	4	184
Specific conductance	5	140
Solids, total suspended	3	138
Flow rate	2	92
Stream flow, instantaneous	2	92
Solids, settleable	1	46

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV1024221.

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 WV1024221.

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 Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES WV1024221 for AUGER HOLLOW REFUSE DISPOSAL in Bluefield, WV, which is held by SOUTHERN MINERALS, INC. and discharges to TUG FK in the South Fork Tug Fork-Tug Fork subwatershed (HUC 050702010201). The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a Minor Discharger class, 0 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.