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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAM080454

WELLMORE #7 PREP PLANT, Big Rock, VA: NPDES VAM080454 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

WELLMORE #7 PREP PLANT, held by THE BLACK DIAMOND COMPANY, holds NPDES permit VAM080454. EPA’s file records it issued October 15, 2019 and expiring December 27, 2023. 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.

What the register holds for WELLMORE #7 PREP PLANT: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Big Rock, Virginia, and 7 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES VAM080454.

Identity

Facility as filedWELLMORE #7 PREP PLANT
Permittee as filedTHE BLACK DIAMOND COMPANY
NPDES IDVAM080454
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
IssuedOctober 15, 2019
Expiration dateDecember 27, 2023
Issuing agencyVA DMME
AddressBig Rock, VA
SubwatershedFeds Creek-Levisa Fork (HUC 050702020202)

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
Solids, total suspended1500
Solids, settleable1500
Iron, total [as Fe]1500
Solids, total dissolved [TDS]1500
pH1000
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant1000
Manganese, total [as Mn]600

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VAM080454.

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 VAM080454.

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.