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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1029975

TWILIGHT SOUTH SURFACE MINE, Twilight, WV: NPDES WV1029975 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

TWILIGHT SOUTH SURFACE MINE, held by INDEPENDENCE COAL COMPANY INC, holds NPDES permit WV1029975, which discharges to West Fk. EPA’s file records it issued October 18, 2017 and expiring October 12, 2022. 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 filedTWILIGHT SOUTH SURFACE MINE
Permittee as filedINDEPENDENCE COAL COMPANY INC
NPDES IDWV1029975
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 18, 2017
Expiration dateOctober 12, 2022
AddressTwilight, WV 25204
Receiving waterWEST FK
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedLower Marsh Fork (HUC 050500090204)

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 recoverable1055,6010
Manganese, total [as Mn]1055,6010
Aluminum, total [as Al]1055,6010
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]1055,6010
Iron, total [as Fe]1035,5930
Specific conductance1025,5900
pH1025,5900
Sulfate, total [as SO4]1025,5900
Solids, total dissolved1025,5900
Solids, total suspended965,2800
Flow rate643,5200
Solids, settleable321,7600
Stream flow, instantaneous62140
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]01620

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV1029975.

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 WV1029975.

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.