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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1028073

LAUREL FORK SURFACE MINE, Holden, WV: NPDES WV1028073 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

LAUREL FORK SURFACE MINE, held by COAL-MAC LLC, holds NPDES permit WV1028073, which discharges to Laurel Fk/Rt Fk/Pine Ck. EPA’s file records it issued October 31, 2019 and expiring October 25, 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 filedLAUREL FORK SURFACE MINE
Permittee as filedCOAL-MAC LLC
NPDES IDWV1028073
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
IssuedOctober 31, 2019
Expiration dateOctober 25, 2024
AddressHolden, WV 25625
Receiving waterLAUREL FK/RT FK/PINE CK
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedIsland Creek (HUC 050701010402)

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 recoverable786900
Iron, total [as Fe]786900
Manganese, total [as Mn]786900
Aluminum, total [as Al]786900
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]786900
Specific conductance766720
Sulfate, total [as SO4]766720
Solids, total dissolved766720
Solids, total suspended726120
pH524600
Flow rate443960
Solids, settleable242160
Stream flow, instantaneous8640
Alkalinity, total [as CaCO3]9450
Calcium, total [as Ca]9450
Magnesium, total [as Mg]9450
Sodium, total [as Na]9450
Potassium, total [as K]9450
Toxicity [chronic], Ceriodaphnia dubia3210

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV1028073.

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 WV1028073.

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.