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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAM080717

BUCK KNOB MINE, Dixiana, VA: NPDES VAM080717 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BUCK KNOB MINE, held by RED RIVER COAL COMPANY, INC., holds NPDES permit VAM080717. EPA’s file records it issued July 29, 2016 and expiring June 5, 2020. 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 BUCK KNOB MINE: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Dixiana, Virginia, and 4 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES VAM080717.

Identity

Facility as filedBUCK KNOB MINE
Permittee as filedRED RIVER COAL COMPANY, INC.
NPDES IDVAM080717
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
IssuedJuly 29, 2016
Expiration dateJune 5, 2020
Issuing agencyVA DMME
AddressDixiana, VA
SubwatershedSouth Fork Pound River-North Fork Pound River (HUC 050702020501)

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, settleable900
pH600
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant600
Solids, total dissolved [TDS]600

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VAM080717.

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 VAM080717.

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.