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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1007955

DEVILS TRACE BRANCH SURFACE MINE & HAULROAD, Dunlow, WV: NPDES WV1007955 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

DEVILS TRACE BRANCH SURFACE MINE & HAULROAD, held by ARGUS ENERGY WV, LLC, holds NPDES permit WV1007955, which discharges to Ohio Rv. EPA’s file records it issued December 8, 2016 and expiring November 30, 2021. 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 filedDEVILS TRACE BRANCH SURFACE MINE & HAULROAD
Permittee as filedARGUS ENERGY WV, LLC
NPDES IDWV1007955
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
IssuedDecember 8, 2016
Expiration dateNovember 30, 2021
AddressDunlow, WV 25511
Receiving waterOHIO RV
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedUpper East Fork Twelvepole Creek (HUC 050901020202)

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
pH121820
Selenium, total recoverable91590
Iron, total [as Fe]91530
Manganese, total [as Mn]91530
Aluminum, total [as Al]91530
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]91530
Specific conductance81420
Sulfate, total [as SO4]81420
Solids, total dissolved81420
Stream flow, instantaneous4800
Flow rate4420
Solids, total suspended3330
Solids, settleable3310

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV1007955.

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 WV1007955.

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.