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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WV1031058

ELK CREEK REFUSE FACILITY, Verner, WV: NPDES WV1031058 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

ELK CREEK REFUSE FACILITY, held by RAMACO RESOURCES, LLC, holds NPDES permit WV1031058, which discharges to Elk Ck. EPA’s file records it issued November 17, 2023 and expiring November 13, 2028. 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 filedELK CREEK REFUSE FACILITY
Permittee as filedRAMACO RESOURCES, LLC
NPDES IDWV1031058
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedNovember 17, 2023
Expiration dateNovember 13, 2028
AddressVerner, WV 25650
Receiving waterELK CK
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedElk Creek-Guyandotte River (HUC 050701010506)

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
Toxicity [chronic], Ceriodaphnia dubia660
Iron, total [as Fe]1700
Manganese, total [as Mn]1700
Aluminum, total [as Al]1700
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]1700
Specific conductance1600
Sulfate, total [as SO4]1600
Solids, total dissolved1600
pH1200
Alkalinity, total [as CaCO3]1200
Solids, total suspended1200
Calcium, total [as Ca]1200
Magnesium, total [as Mg]1200
Sodium, total [as Na]1200
Potassium, total [as K]1200
Selenium, total recoverable1100
Stream flow, instantaneous800
Solids, settleable600
Flow rate400

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WV1031058.

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 WV1031058.

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.