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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1003674

PREPARATION PLANT AND REFUSE DISPOSAL AREA NO. 1, Matewan, WV: NPDES WV1003674 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

PREPARATION PLANT AND REFUSE DISPOSAL AREA NO. 1, held by DELBARTON MINING COMPANY, LLC, holds NPDES permit WV1003674, which discharges to Tug Fk. EPA’s file records it issued March 28, 2019 and expiring March 26, 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 filedPREPARATION PLANT AND REFUSE DISPOSAL AREA NO. 1
Permittee as filedDELBARTON MINING COMPANY, LLC
NPDES IDWV1003674
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 28, 2019
Expiration dateMarch 26, 2024
AddressMatewan, WV 25678
Receiving waterTUG FK
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedOutlet Pigeon Creek (HUC 050702010403)

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
Selenium, total recoverable01408March 31, 2026196% over the limit
Aluminum, total [as Al]188591December 31, 201622% over the limit
Manganese, total [as Mn]188580
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]188580
Iron, total [as Fe]178470
Specific conductance168270
Sulfate, total [as SO4]168270
Solids, total dissolved168270
Solids, settleable107700
pH127020
Solids, total suspended126060
Flow rate83980
Stream flow, instantaneous41680

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 WV1003674.

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.