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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1024264

HARMON BRANCH HAULROAD, Beckley, WV: NPDES WV1024264 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

HARMON BRANCH HAULROAD, held by CARETTA MINERALS, LLC, holds NPDES permit WV1024264, which discharges to Harmon Br. EPA’s file records it issued March 3, 2017 and expiring February 28, 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.

What the register holds for HARMON BRANCH HAULROAD: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Beckley, West Virginia, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES WV1024264.

Identity

Facility as filedHARMON BRANCH HAULROAD
Permittee as filedCARETTA MINERALS, LLC
NPDES IDWV1024264
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
IssuedMarch 3, 2017
Expiration dateFebruary 28, 2022
AddressBeckley, WV 25801
Receiving waterHARMON BR
SubwatershedHorse Creek-Tug Fork (HUC 050702010208)
SIC1221 – 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

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES WV1024264.

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES WV1024264.

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.

What this page shows

Of the 156 individual permits in McDowell County, 92.3% carry a recorded violation, and HARMON BRANCH HAULROAD is among them. The Horse Creek-Tug Fork watershed holds 16 Clean Water Act discharge permits, and 34.6% of the 156 individual permits in McDowell County were issued before HARMON BRANCH HAULROAD.