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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1026038

ATWELL BRANCH SURFACE MINE, Bartley, WV: NPDES WV1026038 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

ATWELL BRANCH SURFACE MINE, held by GME MINING & RECLAMATION, INC., holds NPDES permit WV1026038, which discharges to Atwell Br. EPA’s file records it issued November 14, 2019 and expiring November 7, 2024. 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 filedATWELL BRANCH SURFACE MINE
Permittee as filedGME MINING & RECLAMATION, INC.
NPDES IDWV1026038
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 14, 2019
Expiration dateNovember 7, 2024
AddressBartley, WV 24813
Receiving waterATWELL BR
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedMiddle Dry Fork (HUC 050702010104)

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
Manganese, total [as Mn]722760
Aluminum, total [as Al]662760
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]662760
Iron, total [as Fe]642700
Specific conductance622580
Sulfate, total [as SO4]622580
Solids, total dissolved622580
Solids, total suspended542160
pH441800
Flow rate361440
Solids, settleable18960
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]10900
Stream flow, instantaneous8360
Alkalinity, total [as CaCO3]0360
Calcium, total [as Ca]0360
Magnesium, total [as Mg]0360
Sodium, total [as Na]0360
Potassium, total [as K]0360
Toxicity [chronic], Ceriodaphnia dubia0120

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV1026038.

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 WV1026038.

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.