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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1029878

COON KNOB SURFACE MINE NO. 1, Wharncliffe, WV: NPDES WV1029878 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

COON KNOB SURFACE MINE NO. 1, held by LEXINGTON COAL COMPANY, LLC, holds NPDES permit WV1029878, which discharges to Horsepen Ck/Gilbert Ck. EPA’s file records it issued January 15, 2016 and expiring November 19, 2020. 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 filedCOON KNOB SURFACE MINE NO. 1
Permittee as filedLEXINGTON COAL COMPANY, LLC
NPDES IDWV1029878
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
IssuedJanuary 15, 2016
Expiration dateNovember 19, 2020
AddressWharncliffe, WV 25651
Receiving waterHORSEPEN CK/GILBERT CK
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedGilbert Creek (HUC 050701010502)

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]907830
Aluminum, total [as Al]907830
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]907830
Specific conductance907710
Iron, total [as Fe]907710
Sulfate, total [as SO4]907690
Solids, total dissolved907690
pH877470
Solids, total suspended667410
Flow rate604940
Selenium, total recoverable302820
Solids, settleable222470
Stream flow, instantaneous16600

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV1029878.

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 WV1029878.

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.