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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1019481

BIG EAGLE NO. 1 & 2 DEEP MINE, Kincaid, WV: NPDES WV1019481 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BIG EAGLE NO. 1 & 2 DEEP MINE, held by FRASURE CREEK MINING, LLC, holds NPDES permit WV1019481, which discharges to Loop Ck. EPA’s file records it issued April 28, 2017 and expiring April 27, 2022. 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 filedBIG EAGLE NO. 1 & 2 DEEP MINE
Permittee as filedFRASURE CREEK MINING, LLC
NPDES IDWV1019481
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
IssuedApril 28, 2017
Expiration dateApril 27, 2022
AddressKincaid, WV 25119
Receiving waterLOOP CK
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedLoop Creek (HUC 050500060301)

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, dissolved [as Al]121,0710
Specific conductance119700
Sulfate, total [as SO4]119700
Solids, total dissolved119700
Iron, total [as Fe]128940
Manganese, total [as Mn]128940
Aluminum, total [as Al]128940
pH85960
Solids, settleable64350
Solids, total suspended64320
Stream flow, instantaneous43080
Flow rate42880

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV1019481.

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 WV1019481.

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.