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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1031252

CHECKMATE POWELLTON, Whitesville, WV: NPDES WV1031252 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CHECKMATE POWELLTON, held by ELK RUN COAL COMPANY, LLC, holds NPDES permit WV1031252, which discharges to Coal Rv. EPA’s file records it issued July 31, 2023 and expiring July 18, 2028. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedCHECKMATE POWELLTON
Permittee as filedELK RUN COAL COMPANY, LLC
NPDES IDWV1031252
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedJuly 31, 2023
Expiration dateJuly 18, 2028
AddressWhitesville, WV 25209
Receiving waterCOAL RV
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedJoes Creek-Big Coal River (HUC 050500090603)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Toxicity [chronic], Ceriodaphnia dubia990
Solids, settleable930
Aluminum, total [as Al]3000
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]3000
Manganese, total [as Mn]2900
Selenium, total recoverable2700
Iron, total [as Fe]2600
Specific conductance2500
Sulfate, total [as SO4]2500
Solids, total dissolved2500
pH2000
Alkalinity, total [as CaCO3]1500
Solids, total suspended1500
Calcium, total [as Ca]1500
Magnesium, total [as Mg]1500
Sodium, total [as Na]1500
Potassium, total [as K]1500
Stream flow, instantaneous1400
Flow rate600

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV1031252.

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 WV1031252.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers the NPDES discharge permit WV1031252 for CHECKMATE POWELLTON in Whitesville, WV, held by ELK RUN COAL COMPANY, LLC, with a status of Effective and a Minor Discharger class. The page lists 19 pollutants on file, 2 under a numeric limit, and 0 with an effluent exceedance, with the permit issued July 31, 2023 and expiring July 18, 2028, in the Joes Creek-Big Coal River subwatershed (HUC 050500090603).