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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TN0045811

VOLUNTEER MINE # 1, Gleason, TN: NPDES TN0045811 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

VOLUNTEER MINE # 1, held by Old Hickory Clay Co., holds NPDES permit TN0045811, which discharges to Obion-South Fork. EPA’s file records it issued April 30, 2020 and expiring June 30, 2025. 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 filedVOLUNTEER MINE # 1
Permittee as filedOld Hickory Clay Co.
NPDES IDTN0045811
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
IssuedApril 30, 2020
Expiration dateJune 30, 2025
Issuing agencyTDEC-DMGR
AddressGleason, TN 38229
Receiving waterObion-South Fork
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedSpring Creek Lower (HUC 080102030302)

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
pH21060
Solids, total suspended21060
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant21060

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES TN0045811.

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 TN0045811.

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.