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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES KY0096521

MARTIN COUNTY COAL CORP (680-5012), Inez, KY: NPDES KY0096521 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

MARTIN COUNTY COAL CORP (680-5012), held by MARTIN CO COAL CORP, holds NPDES permit KY0096521, which discharges to Old Road Fork. EPA’s file records it issued September 29, 2005 and expiring July 31, 2010. 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 filedMARTIN COUNTY COAL CORP (680-5012)
Permittee as filedMARTIN CO COAL CORP
NPDES IDKY0096521
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
IssuedSeptember 29, 2005
Expiration dateJuly 31, 2010
AddressInez, KY 41224
Receiving waterOLD ROAD FORK
SubwatershedColdwater Fork (HUC 050702010603)

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
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]26521July 31, 200760% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]4608July 31, 200750% over the limit
pH2580
Solids, total suspended2580
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant2580
Coliform, fecal general2580
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]1290

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
June 7, 2017Permit Violations - Discharge Without a Valid PermitST6

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 15, 2026.