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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1023900

LANES BRANCH SURFACE MINE, Beckley, WV: NPDES WV1023900 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

LANES BRANCH SURFACE MINE, held by ROLLING S AUGERING, LLC, holds NPDES permit WV1023900, which discharges to Guyandotte Rv. EPA’s file records it issued September 26, 2017 and expiring September 25, 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 filedLANES BRANCH SURFACE MINE
Permittee as filedROLLING S AUGERING, LLC
NPDES IDWV1023900
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
IssuedSeptember 26, 2017
Expiration dateSeptember 25, 2022
AddressBeckley, WV 25801
Receiving waterGUYANDOTTE RV
SubwatershedTurkey Creek-Guyandotte River (HUC 050701010306)

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, total [as Al]302,18481September 30, 20213,171% over the limit
Iron, total [as Fe]292,13130January 31, 20201,259% over the limit
Solids, total suspended241,71716January 31, 2020814% over the limit
Manganese, total [as Mn]302,11411January 31, 2020247% over the limit
pH282,0489February 28, 2021
Selenium, total recoverable302,1030
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]302,1030
Specific conductance282,0990
Sulfate, total [as SO4]282,0990
Solids, total dissolved282,0990
Flow rate161,1340
Solids, settleable85840
Stream flow, instantaneous42680

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 WV1023900.

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.