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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1028499

CABIN BRANCH SURFACE MINE, Milton, WV: NPDES WV1028499 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CABIN BRANCH SURFACE MINE, held by LEXINGTON COAL COMPANY, LLC, holds NPDES permit WV1028499, which discharges to Twelvepole Ck. EPA’s file records it issued April 16, 2019 and expiring April 15, 2024. 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 filedCABIN BRANCH SURFACE MINE
Permittee as filedLEXINGTON COAL COMPANY, LLC
NPDES IDWV1028499
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
IssuedApril 16, 2019
Expiration dateApril 15, 2024
AddressMilton, WV 25541
Receiving waterTWELVEPOLE CK
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedCopperas Mine Fork (HUC 050701010401)

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 recoverable391170
Manganese, total [as Mn]391170
Aluminum, total [as Al]391170
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]391170
Specific conductance361080
Sulfate, total [as SO4]361080
Iron, total [as Fe]361080
Solids, total dissolved361080
Solids, total suspended30900
pH26780
Flow rate20600
Solids, settleable10300
Stream flow, instantaneous6180

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV1028499.

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 WV1028499.

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.