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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1018795

ECKMAN DEEP MINE NO. 2, Eckman, VA: NPDES WV1018795 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

ECKMAN DEEP MINE NO. 2, held by SOUTHERN MINERALS, INC., holds NPDES permit WV1018795, which discharges to Tug Fk. EPA’s file records it issued May 6, 2020 and expiring April 29, 2025. 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 filedECKMAN DEEP MINE NO. 2
Permittee as filedSOUTHERN MINERALS, INC.
NPDES IDWV1018795
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
IssuedMay 6, 2020
Expiration dateApril 29, 2025
AddressEckman, VA 24829
Receiving waterTUG FK
SubwatershedOutlet Elkhorn Creek (HUC 050702010203)

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
Iron, total [as Fe]121710
Manganese, total [as Mn]121710
Aluminum, total [as Al]121710
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]121710
Specific conductance101420
Sulfate, total [as SO4]101420
Solids, total dissolved101420
pH81420
Turbidity21120
Solids, total suspended6840
Solids, settleable6840
Stream flow, instantaneous4580
Flow rate4560
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]0420

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV1018795.

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 WV1018795.

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.