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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1022300

TAYLOR BRANCH SURFACE MINE, Kincaid, WV: NPDES WV1022300 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

TAYLOR BRANCH SURFACE MINE, held by FRASURE CREEK MINING, LLC, holds NPDES permit WV1022300, which discharges to Loop Ck. EPA’s file records it issued July 16, 2015 and expiring January 12, 2020. 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 filedTAYLOR BRANCH SURFACE MINE
Permittee as filedFRASURE CREEK MINING, LLC
NPDES IDWV1022300
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 16, 2015
Expiration dateJanuary 12, 2020
AddressKincaid, WV 25119
Receiving waterLOOP CK
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedLaurel Creek-New River (HUC 050500040306)

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
Sulfate, total [as SO4]1103,3000
Selenium, total recoverable1113,2370
Specific conductance1103,2190
Solids, total dissolved1103,2190
Iron, total [as Fe]1043,1050
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]1033,0980
Manganese, total [as Mn]1033,0910
Aluminum, total [as Al]1033,0910
Solids, total suspended882,7010
pH802,2580
Flow rate641,8980
Solids, settleable329560
Stream flow, instantaneous102620

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV1022300.

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 WV1022300.

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.