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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1019945

LOWER HONEY BRANCH DEEP MINE, Grafton, WV: NPDES WV1019945 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

LOWER HONEY BRANCH DEEP MINE, held by ARCH RECLAMATION SERVICES, INC., holds NPDES permit WV1019945, which discharges to Jennie Ck. EPA’s file records it issued April 20, 2016 and expiring April 20, 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 filedLOWER HONEY BRANCH DEEP MINE
Permittee as filedARCH RECLAMATION SERVICES, INC.
NPDES IDWV1019945
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 20, 2016
Expiration dateApril 20, 2021
AddressGrafton, WV 26354
Receiving waterJENNIE CK
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedJennie Creek-Tug Fork (HUC 050702010602)

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
Specific conductance152790
Sulfate, total [as SO4]152790
Selenium, total recoverable152790
Iron, total [as Fe]152790
Manganese, total [as Mn]152790
Aluminum, total [as Al]152790
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]152790
Solids, total dissolved152790
Solids, total suspended152610
pH101860
Flow rate101700
Solids, settleable91530
Alkalinity, total [as CaCO3]61080
Calcium, total [as Ca]61080
Magnesium, total [as Mg]61080
Sodium, total [as Na]61080
Potassium, total [as K]61080
Toxicity [chronic], Ceriodaphnia dubia6270
Stream flow, instantaneous0160

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV1019945.

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 WV1019945.

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.