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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV0090131

KATIE COAL PREPARATION PLANT, Powellton, WV: NPDES WV0090131 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

KATIE COAL PREPARATION PLANT, held by PANTHER CREEK MINING, LLC, holds NPDES permit WV0090131, which discharges to Kanawha Rv. EPA’s file records it issued July 29, 2019 and expiring July 23, 2024. 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 filedKATIE COAL PREPARATION PLANT
Permittee as filedPANTHER CREEK MINING, LLC
NPDES IDWV0090131
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, 2019
Expiration dateJuly 23, 2024
AddressPowellton, WV 25161
Receiving waterKANAWHA RV
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedArmstrong Creek (HUC 050500060302)

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
Aluminum, total [as Al]3386210February 29, 202011,567% over the limit
Iron, total [as Fe]298554February 28, 201811,878% over the limit
Solids, total suspended92984March 31, 201858,186% over the limit
Manganese, total [as Mn]338542February 28, 2018208% over the limit
Specific conductance251,7190
Sulfate, total [as SO4]259940
Solids, total dissolved259940
pH229520
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]338520
Selenium, total recoverable246150
Stream flow, instantaneous163760
Solids, settleable93720
Flow rate61880

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 WV0090131.

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 15, 2026.