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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1022911

SURFACE MINE #22, Spurlockville, WV: NPDES WV1022911 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SURFACE MINE #22, held by ERP ENVIRONMENTAL FUND, INC., holds NPDES permit WV1022911, which discharges to Berry Br. EPA’s file records it issued November 13, 2017 and expiring November 7, 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 filedSURFACE MINE #22
Permittee as filedERP ENVIRONMENTAL FUND, INC.
NPDES IDWV1022911
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
IssuedNovember 13, 2017
Expiration dateNovember 7, 2022
AddressSpurlockville, WV 25501
Receiving waterBERRY BR
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedBallard Fork-Mud River (HUC 050701020302)

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 recoverable20884106April 30, 2026511% over the limit
Iron, total [as Fe]187622May 31, 20228% over the limit
pH178080
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]218040
Manganese, total [as Mn]207780
Aluminum, total [as Al]207780
Specific conductance177200
Sulfate, total [as SO4]177170
Solids, settleable106560
Solids, total dissolved176490
Solids, total suspended115920
Flow rate83380
Stream flow, instantaneous61980
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]01110
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C01110
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]01110
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]01110
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]3780
Nitrogen, nitrite total [as N]6600
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]0600

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 WV1022911.

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.