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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV0056405

HOBET JOB NO. 21 - SURFACE WESTRIDGE MINE, Madison, WV: NPDES WV0056405 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

HOBET JOB NO. 21 - SURFACE WESTRIDGE MINE, held by ERP ENVIRONMENTAL FUND, INC., holds NPDES permit WV0056405, which discharges to Coal Rv. EPA’s file records it issued July 14, 2017 and expiring July 10, 2022. 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 filedHOBET JOB NO. 21 - SURFACE WESTRIDGE MINE
Permittee as filedERP ENVIRONMENTAL FUND, INC.
NPDES IDWV0056405
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 14, 2017
Expiration dateJuly 10, 2022
AddressMadison, WV 25130
Receiving waterCOAL RV
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedUpper Little Coal River (HUC 050500090502)

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
pH62820
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]62820
Iron, total [as Fe]42640
Manganese, total [as Mn]42640
Aluminum, total [as Al]42640
Specific conductance52350
Sulfate, total [as SO4]52350
Solids, total dissolved22080
Solids, total suspended31410
Selenium, total recoverable91350
Flow rate2940
Stream flow, instantaneous1850
Solids, settleable0390

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV0056405.

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 WV0056405.

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.