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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV0090026

ROCKY HOLLOW MINE #1, Matewan, WV: NPDES WV0090026 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

ROCKY HOLLOW MINE #1, held by LEXINGTON COAL COMPANY, LLC, holds NPDES permit WV0090026, which discharges to Big Sandy Rv. EPA’s file records it issued May 2, 2014 and expiring April 21, 2019. 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 filedROCKY HOLLOW MINE #1
Permittee as filedLEXINGTON COAL COMPANY, LLC
NPDES IDWV0090026
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 2, 2014
Expiration dateApril 21, 2019
AddressMatewan, WV 25678
Receiving waterBIG SANDY RV
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedSycamore Creek-Tug Fork (HUC 050702010312)

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, settleable7710
Specific conductance6660
Solids, total suspended6660
Sulfate, total [as SO4]6660
Iron, total [as Fe]6660
Manganese, total [as Mn]6660
Aluminum, total [as Al]6660
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]6660
Solids, total dissolved6660
Flow rate6520
pH6520

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV0090026.

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 WV0090026.

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.