20130312$199DryCleanXPress_MEMO

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DSCA Memo
To: File #920075C, Wake County
From: Pam Moore
Date: March 13, 2013
Re: $1.99 Dry Clean X-Press, Inspection Summary—In Compliance with MMPs
Preferred Cleaners Davis Drive 3607 LLC, Property Owner
Mr. Lomesh Patel, Owner 4400 Triland Way
3603 Davis Dr. Ste. 103 Cary, NC 27518
Morrisville, NC 27560
[phone]

On March 12, 2013, Pam Moore, Compliance Inspector with the North Carolina Division of Waste
Management, Dry Cleaning Solvent Cleanup Act (DSCA) Program conducted an initial compliance
inspection at $1.99 Dry Clean X-Press, a petroleum facility in Morrisville. The facility is open from 7
am to 7 pm M-F and 8 am to 5 pm on Saturday. It is attached to Triangle Eye Institute, and
services one pickup store, Ace Cleaners in Cary, NC. Ms. Moore met with Mr. Lomesh Patel,
facility owner.

The facility received an outreach visit in November 2012 and had three violations relating to their
wastewater treatment unit; it was not in spill containment, an operation manual was not on site, and
a three-year maintenance and service history was not being kept. The Galaxy mister WWTU is
now stored in spill containment, the operation manual for the mister is now on site, and Mr. Patel
has an inspection log for the WWTU which he completes weekly. A WWTU filter purchase receipt
dated 11/8/2012 was on site and the filters on the mister were change on 11/23/2012 and recorded
in the inspection log. Mr. Patel said he changes the filters once per year.

The facility continues to use two identical Union HL860 dry cleaning machines, one for dark clothes
and one for light clothes. Both machines were observed in operation and no problems were noted.
The machines are operated from 7:30 am to 2 pm M-F. Separator water is manually drained into
collection containers and treated in the WWTU, and about 1 gallon is generated total per day.

One 55-gallon waste drum is stored across from the dry cleaning machine in spill containment.
The drum is labeled “non-regulated waste” and was about 1/3 full. Any contact water Mr. Patel
deems “too dirty” to treat in the WWTU is disposed in the waste drum. A 55-gallon solvent drum
was stored onsite, also across from the dry cleaning machine in spill containment. Mr. Patel said
he buys one drum of solvent from Phenix Supply per year, occasionally two.

An emergency information form was completed and posted, spill cleanup material was stored on
site and waste manifests for the last three years were stored on site. The facility contracts with
MCF Systems of Atlanta to haul their waste drum to the Clean Harbors facility in Hebron,OH (last
waste manifest was dated 6/5/2012).

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Galaxy mister in spill containment, a correction of a violation from 2012 outreach visit.

Weekly WWTU inspection log, showing filter change in November 2012, a correction of a violation from 2012
outreach visit.

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WWTU filter purchase receipt from November 2012.

Waste drum (labeled “non-regulated) on left and solvent drum on right in spill containment.
Spill containment units placed to allow adequate space for spill bladder to deploy if needed.