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North Carolina
Department of Environment and Natural.Resources .
441,
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Division of Waste Management
Michael F. Easley, Governor NI . ®ENR
William G. Rona Jr., Secretary
Dexter R.Matthews, Director
• 3 July 2002 IIII ,1I1
MEMORANDUM Evl 0 V
TO: Charles \Veaver I JUL 1 5 2002 J
Division of Water Quality-NPDES Program
J.R. •
Rosin110UIJOWAIER SEC IION
A`IlEVILLE REGIONAL OFFICE
Division of Water Quality-Nondischarge Program --'
FROM: Charlotte Jesneck t^
Inactive Hazardous Sites Wranch
Superfimd Section
Division of Waste Management
RE: American Thread Site/American Sevier Facility ,I_. . ,r ITY cCTION
630 American Thread Road E.
Marion, McDowell County •
Wastewater Permit #NC0000108 JUL 8 2002
Norrdischarge Permit-#-WQ0005603--
r�ONIS FRGE PERMITTING
We are working with Coats North America on a remedial actior Ira . . . rr a--ou
substances at the above site. The focus of the remedial action plan is a former burn;area. Remedial action
under our program requires that the remediating party investigate all known and su .ected releases of
hazardous substances. Aside from the former burn area,athe.ottlyotlrerarea where. azardous-substances
(have•been-detected•is-immonitoring wells-surroundingthe ttnits_perra tte r—p'ogrerns! This
memorandum is just to provide you this historic data as your agency is the lead on . .dressing any
hazardous substance issues in relation to the permitted lagoons.
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Coats North America has indicated that there were pioi ettT ms=w_ ith"the const _ctton of_'the origlna
w ells around_talagoons:and:the-wells-wereseplaced:iru_I993,111 I believe the predec sor to your division
may have even penalized the well contractor. Below I outline the data we have of onitoring wells
exceeding the 15A NCAC 2L standards. coin willmote his'is'all-pie=I993 lain=wit._ihe_t celition-ofthe
chlor`oform_detectronc. weversince.there_wasmo.subsequenUnonitoring of flies -wells-formetals,-wey
de-n9rknow-whether•-thesecontaminants.ar.estill_present. If these wells were impr {.erly constructed,
these low levels of metals may be false detections due to turbidity. Coats North Ant-rice has indicated
they believe the chloroform detections are due to their disinfection of the lagoons th sodium
hypochiorite.
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If you have any questions concerning this matter, please contact Thelma Williams at
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- Sincerely,
a'7/Kim H. Colson, P.E., Supervisor
Non-Discharge Permitting Unit
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