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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1028049

THREEMILE SURFACE MINE EXTENSION, Eskdale, WV: NPDES WV1028049 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

THREEMILE SURFACE MINE EXTENSION, held by PANTHER CREEK MINING, LLC, holds NPDES permit WV1028049, which discharges to Left Fk/Whiteoak Ck. EPA’s file records it issued December 1, 2014 and expiring December 1, 2019. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedTHREEMILE SURFACE MINE EXTENSION
Permittee as filedPANTHER CREEK MINING, LLC
NPDES IDWV1028049
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
IssuedDecember 1, 2014
Expiration dateDecember 1, 2019
AddressEskdale, WV 25075
Receiving waterLEFT FK/WHITEOAK CK
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedOutlet Cabin Creek (HUC 050500060202)

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 recoverable691,0170
Manganese, total [as Mn]691,0170
Aluminum, total [as Al]691,0170
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]691,0170
Iron, total [as Fe]691,0130
Specific conductance691,0120
Sulfate, total [as SO4]691,0120
Solids, total dissolved691,0120
Solids, total suspended658540
pH466780
Flow rate365680
Solids, settleable182840
Stream flow, instantaneous101100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV1028049.

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 WV1028049.

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 14, 2026.