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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES COR040299

J BIRD MINE, Montrose County, CO: NPDES COR040299 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

J BIRD MINE, held by RimRock Exploration and Development Inc, holds NPDES permit COR040299, which discharges to La Sal Creek - Dolores River. EPA’s file records it issued July 20, 2016 and expiring July 31, 2021. 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 filedJ BIRD MINE
Permittee as filedRimRock Exploration and Development Inc
NPDES IDCOR040299
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedJuly 20, 2016
Expiration dateJuly 31, 2021
AddressMontrose County, CO 81401
Receiving waterLa Sal Creek - Dolores River
SubwatershedLion Canyon-La Sal Creek (HUC 140300020903)

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
pH2400
Solids, total suspended1200
Arsenic, total [as As]1200
Zinc, total [as Zn]1200
Radium 226 + radium 228, total1200
Uranium, total1200

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES COR040299.

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 COR040299.

Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not yet 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 September 15, 2026.