# TURNER ELKHORN MIN CO (LEFT BEAVER COAL)
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20196`
- **Case Number:** 04-1984-0009
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $50K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- TURNER ELKHORN MINING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

TURNER ELKHOWN MINING COMPANY OWNS THE LEFT BEAVER COAL    COMPANY, A COAL PREPARATION PLANT IN LIGON, KENTUCKY.  THIS  FACILITY IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE CALORA PLANT.                    ON 9/23/77, A NPDES PERMIT (#KY0022896) WAS ISSUED.  DIS-  CHARGE MONITORING REPORTS SUBMITTED TO EPA HAVE SHOWN LEFT   BEAVER TO HAVE FEW VIOLATIONS OF ITS PERMIT EFFLUENT LIMIT-  ATIONS.  HOWEVER, IN RESPONSE TO A NOTICE OF PROPOSED PERMIT REISSUANCE, EPA RECEIVED NUMEROUS CITIZEN COMPLAINTS ALLEG-  ING DISCHARGES OF  BLACKWATER  FROM THECALORA PLANT.           INVESTIGATIONS BY EPA REVEALED A HISTORY OF PERIODIC UN-   PERMITTED DISCHARGES FROM THE SLURRY HANDLING SYSTEM NOT     CONTEMPLATED IN THE PERMITTING PROCESS.  IN ADDITION, AND    EPA INSPECTION CONDUCTED ON 12/15/83 REVEALED A LARGE COAL   STORAGE AREA, AS WELL AS OTHER SMALLER PROCESS AREAS, WHERE  CONTAMINATED RUNOFF COULD DISCHARGE, UNTREATED, TO THE AD-   JACENT CREEK.

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