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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV0031607

BEARTOWN PREP PLANT AND NO. 5 REFUSE DUMP, Beckley, WV: NPDES WV0031607 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BEARTOWN PREP PLANT AND NO. 5 REFUSE DUMP, held by RIVERSIDE ENERGY COMPANY, LLC, holds NPDES permit WV0031607, which discharges to Dry Fk/Tug Fk/Big Sandy Rv. EPA’s file records it issued March 18, 2019 and expiring March 8, 2024. 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 filedBEARTOWN PREP PLANT AND NO. 5 REFUSE DUMP
Permittee as filedRIVERSIDE ENERGY COMPANY, LLC
NPDES IDWV0031607
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
IssuedMarch 18, 2019
Expiration dateMarch 8, 2024
AddressBeckley, WV 25801
Receiving waterDRY FK/TUG FK/BIG SANDY RV
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedLower Dry Fork (HUC 050702010105)

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
Specific conductance301,4700
Sulfate, total [as SO4]301,4700
Selenium, total recoverable301,4700
Iron, total [as Fe]301,4700
Manganese, total [as Mn]301,4700
Aluminum, total [as Al]301,4700
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]301,4700
Solids, total dissolved301,4700
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]181,1400
pH201,0720
Solids, total suspended188820
Flow rate125880
Stream flow, instantaneous83920
Solids, settleable62940

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV0031607.

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 WV0031607.

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.