Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES KY0003476

CONTINENTAL REFINING CO LLC, Somerset, KY: NPDES KY0003476 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
15Pollutants under a numeric limit
9Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CONTINENTAL REFINING CO LLC, held by Continental Refining Co LLC, holds NPDES permit KY0003476, which discharges to Sinking Crk. EPA’s file records it issued November 16, 2011 and expiring December 31, 2016. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	CONTINENTAL REFINING CO LLC
Permittee as filed	Continental Refining Co LLC
NPDES ID	KY0003476
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	November 16, 2011
Expiration date	December 31, 2016
Address	Somerset, KY 42501
Receiving water	SINKING CRK
Subwatershed	Lower Pitman Creek (HUC 051301030204)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

18Pollutants on file
15Under a numeric limit
17With a violation of any kind
9With 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	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
Solids, total suspended	8	91	50	October 31, 2020	700% over the limit
Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons [PAHs]	2	41	12	September 30, 2004	17,567% over the limit
Oil and grease	6	49	9	August 31, 2014	618% over the limit
Iron, total recoverable	2	11	9	June 30, 2014	1,871% over the limit
Chloride [as Cl]	2	8	5	September 30, 2013	68% over the limit
Benzene	0	4	4	March 31, 2003	2,400% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	6	2	April 30, 2010	151% over the limit
pH	6	18	1	May 31, 2014
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]	0	3	1	January 31, 2004	9% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	6	21	0
Phenol	2	10	0
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]	2	8	0
Sulfide, total	2	6	0
Sulfide, total [as S]	0	4	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	2	0
Chromium, hexavalent [as Cr]	2	2	0
Chromium, total [as Cr]	2	2	0
Arsenic, total recoverable	2	0	0

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 KY0003476.

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 September 14, 2026.