NC0061425_Permit Issuance_20071116

Michael F. Easley, Governor
William G. Ross Jr., Secretary
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
November 16, 2007
Mr. Morris Trammel
Water Quality Services, Inc.
P. O. Box 1102
Banner Elk, NC 28604
Subject: Issuance of NPDES Permit NCO061425
Willow Valley WWTP
Watauga County
Dear Mr. Trammel:
Coleen H. Sullins, Director
Division of Water Quality
Division personnel have reviewed and approved your application for renewal of the subject permit.
Accordingly, we are forwarding the attached NPDES discharge permit. This permit is issued pursuant
to the requirements of North Carolina General Statute 143-215.1 and the Memorandum of Agreement
between North Carolina and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency dated May 9, 1994 (or as
subsequently amended).
This final permit includes no significant changes from the draft permit sent to you on September 26,
2007; however, you are reminded of the following changes in its terms from those found in your existing
permit:
Daily maximum limits for ammonia have been added to the permit. Since December 2002, the
Division has been adding daily maximum limits for ammonia to permits with monthly average limits
in order to conform to federal NPDES regulations.
• Instream monitoring requirements for dissolved oxygen have been added to the permit to correct the
mistake of their removal from the 2003 permit.
Monitoring and limits for total residual chlorine have been removed from the permit as a result of
ultraviolet (UV) disinfection being installed at the WWTP. However, a condition has been added to
the permit describing actions you must take should the UV system not function properly. If the UV
system fails and chlorine compounds are used as an alternate means of disinfection, daily monitoring
and a 28 µg/L daily maximum limit will apply to the discharge. Please note that minor changes
have been made to the wording of this condition, but its content remains the same as stated in the
draft.
If any parts, measurement frequencies or sampling requirements contained in this permit are
unacceptable to you, you have the right to an adjudicatory hearing upon written request within thirty
(30) days following receipt of this letter. This request must be in the form of a written petition,
conforming to Chapter 150B of the North Carolina General Statutes, and filed with the Office of
Administrative Hearings (6714 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-6714). Unless
such demand is made, this decision shall be final and binding. No Carolina
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Mr. Morris Trammel
NPDES Permit NC0061425 Renewal
p. 2
Please note that this permit is not transferable except after notice to the Division. The Division may
require modification or revocation and reissuance of the permit. This permit does not affect the legal
requirements to obtain other permits which may be required by the Division of Water Quality or permits
required by the Division of Land Resources, the Coastal Area Management Act or any other Federal or
Local governmental permit that may be required.
If you have any questions concerning this permit, please contact Bob Sledge at telephone number (919)
733-5083, extension 547.
Sincerely,
L,jColeen H. Sullins
cc: Central Files /
Winston-Salem Regional Office/Surface Water Protection Section
NPDES Unit W

Permit NCO061425
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
DIVISION OF WATER QUALITY
PERMIT
TO DISCHARGE WASTEWATER UNDER THE
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM
In compliance with the provisions of North Carolina General Statute 143-215.1, other lawful standards
and regulations promulgated and adopted by the North Carolina Environmental Management
Commission, and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended,
Water Quality Services, Inc.
is hereby authorized to discharge wastewater from a facility located at the
Willow Valley Resort WWTP
NCSR 1109
Boone
Watauga County
to receiving waters designated as Laurel Fork in the Watauga River Basin
in accordance with effluent limitations, monitoring requirements, and other conditions set forth in Parts
I, II, III and IV hereof.
This permit shall become effective January 1, 2008.
This permit and authorization to discharge shall expire at midnight on September 30, 2012.
Signed this day November 16, 2007.
, Coleen H. Sullins, Director
Division of Water Quality
By Authority of the Environmental Management Commission

Permit NC0061425
SUPPLEMENT TO PERMIT COVER SHEET
All previous NPDES Permits issued to this facility, whether for operation or discharge are hereby
revoked. As of this permit'issuance, any previously issued permit bearing this number is no longer
effective. Therefore, the exclusive authority to operate and discharge from this facility arises under the
permit conditions, requirements, terms, and provisions included herein.
Water Quality Services, Inc. is hereby authorized to:
1. Continue to operate an existing 0.03 MGD wastewater treatment system with the following
components:
♦ Dual extended aeration plant with flow equalization
♦ Bar screen
♦ Aeration basin
♦ Clarifier
♦ Tertiary filter
♦ LTV disinfection
♦ Flow monitoring and recording
♦ Generator for stand-by power
The facility is located at the Willow Valley Resort WWTP off NCSR 1109 in Watauga County.
2. Discharge from said treatment works at the location specified on the attached map into Laurel Fork,
classified C-Trout waters in the Watauga River Basin.

Latitude: 36°12' 18"
Longitude: 81°44' 12"
Quad # C12NW
Receiving Stream: Laurel Fork
Stream Class: C-Trout
Subbasin: 40201
NCO061425
Water Quality Services, Inc.
Willow Valley Resort WWTP
Facility
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Location
North
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Permit NCO061425
A. (L) EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS AND MONITORING REQUIREMENTS FINAL
During the period beginning on the effective date of this permit and lasting until expiration, the
Permittee is authorized to discharge from outfall 001. Such discharges shall be limited and monitored
by the Permittee as specified below:
EFFLUENT
LIMITS
MONITORING REQUIREMENTS,
CHARACfTERISTICS
'
"'Mon
Daily.
Measurement
'Fr
YSampleType
=Sample Locahonl
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Flow
0.03 MGD
Continuous
Recording
Influent or Effluent
BOD, 5-day (20°C)
5.0 mg/L
7.5 mg/L
Weekly
Composite
Effluent
Total Suspended Residue
10.0 mg/L
15.0 mg/L
Weekly
Composite
Effluent
NH3 as N
2.0 mg/L
10.0 mg/L
Weekly
Composite
Effluent
Dissolved Oxygen2
Weekly
Grab
Effluent, Upstream &Downstream
Fecal Coliform (geometric mean)
200/100 ml
400/100 ml
Weekly
Grab
Effluent
Temperature (-o
Weekly
Grab
Effluent, Upstream &C)
Downstream
pH3
Weekly
Grab
Effluent
Footnotes:
1. Upstream = 0.1 mile (at bridge) above discharge; Downstream = .08 mile downstream at bridge.
2. The daily average dissolved oxygen effluent concentration shall not be less than 6.0 mg/L.
3. The pH shall not be less than 6.0 standard units nor greater than 9.0 standard units.
There shall be no discharge of floating solids or visible foam in other than trace amounts
See Condition A. (2.) for instructions should the facility's permitted UV system fail and an alternate
means of disinfection is required. Total Residual Chlorine monitoring requirements and limits are
applicable if chlorine compounds are used for disinfection.

Permit NCO061425
A. (2.) TEMPORARY MEANS OF DISINFECTION
In the event that the wastewater treatment plant's ultraviolet (UV) disinfection system should fail,
underperform, or otherwise be removed from effective service, the permittee or his agent should
immediately inform the Surface Water Protection Section staff of the Winston-Salem Regional Office
of this development and discuss temporary, alternate means for disinfection of the effluent.
If chlorine compounds are used as temporary means of disinfection, the total residual chlorine (TRC)
concentration of the effluent must be monitored on a daily basis while this method of disinfection is in
use and values must be reported on the discharge monitoring report. TRC in the effluent may not
exceed 28 µg/L; therefore, dechlorination methods may also be necessary to ensure protection of water
quality in the receiving stream.
Use of a disinfection system other than the permitted UV system during circumstances not deemed as
emergency and/or temporary (replacement of lamps, lamp cleaning or maintenance, etc.) will be
considered a violation of the terms of this permit.

Acct. Name:
NCDENR/DWQ/NPDES
Acct. # 112162
COST OF PUBLICATION
Total $144.27
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
NORTH CAROLINA-WATAUGA COUNTY
Before the undersigned, a Notary Public of said County
and State, duly commissioned, qualified and authorized by the
law to administer oaths, personally appeared: .
Who being first duly sworn, deposes and says: that he (she) is
REPRESENTATIVE
of a newspaper known as THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT, publishe
issued and entered as second class mail in City of Boone,
in said County and State; that he (she) is authorized to make
this affidavit and sworn statement; that the notice of other legal
advertisement, a true copy of which is attached hereto, was
published in THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT the following dates:
NPDES WASTEWATER PERMIT
10/01 /2007
and that the said'newspaper,in which such notice, paper,
document or legal advertisement was published was, at the time
of each and every such- publication, a newspaper meeting all of
the requirements and qualifications of Section 1-597 of the
General Statutes of North Carolina and was a qualified
newspaper within the meaning of Section 1-597 of the General
Statutes of North Carolina.
This 1 st,� day of October, 2007
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Permits, Permits, Permits
Subject: Permits, Permits, Permits
From: Bob Sledge <Bob. Sledge@ ncmail.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:49:25 -0400
To: Sue White <[e-mail]>
Hi Sue,
It was good to hear your voice this morning.
Here are my questions about the permits.
NC0061425 Willow Valley Resort WWTP_
This permit was modified in 2005 to remove the monitoring and limit for total
residual chlorine, because they use UV. This is in agreement with our internal
permitting policy. Recent inspections indicate they have no back up system, so
there'd be no real need to even keep a parameter listing for TRC with a footnote
stating monitoring would be required only if it is used. However, there still seems
to be concern around here as to how to potentially deal with those occasions when a
UV system would fail.
I'm going to suggest that we add a condition to the permit that would require the
permittee to call the regional office upon their knowledge of the UV system failing
(I'd say this is already a term of the permit). At the same time, the SWP staff
could discuss with the permittee any plans that ought to be made to implement a
temporary, alternate means of disinfection. Such plans could be site and
circumstance specific, with factors such as flow, receiving stream, control mechanism
and length of time the UV system is anticipated to be down being taken into account.
It may be the region's determination that an alternate means would potentially do
more harm than good. Such a determination would not release the permittee from
compliance with fecal coliform limits. What do you think? Is such a term necessary?
Also for the existing permit, I notice that there is instream monitoring for
temperature, but no such monitoring for dissolved oxygen. D.O. was monitored
instream in the 1997 permit. Do you think there's a need to reintroduce this
monitoring? I believe when Susan looked at this, her feeling was that the
temperature and D.O. ought to go hand in hand, and if one wasn't there, the other had
less meaning.
They'll be getting a daily max limit for ammonia per our standard renewal policy.
_NC0036242 Woodland Hills Apartments_
The existing permit has temperature monitoring at the upstream and downstream
locations, but not at the effluent. Should it be added there? Obviously, I don't
think this will bring about great hardship to the facility.
As a part of standard policy, we'll be adding daily maximum limits for both ammonia
and total residual chlorine. For TRC, they'll get an eighteen month compliance
schedule to install either UV or dechlor.
For this one, do you have any idea as to who/what should be designated as the
permitted entity? The owners seem to be a family doing business under multiple
corporations/LLCs. They've got me confused, but that's not hard to do.
NCO050610 The Ponds WWTP_
This one has the same issue as Willow Valley with regard to potential need for
temporary disinfection. Additionally, they'll get the ammonia limits.
As I've gone over these and other permits from western counties, I've noticed we
haven't always adhered to our rules with regard to monitoring frequencies for
temperature. For all my permits, I'm planning on maintaining such frequencies as
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NCDENR/DWQ/Point
Mrs. Carolyn Bryant
1617 Mail Service Cent4
Raleigh, NC 27699-161
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Banner Elk, NC 28604
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NPDES..APPLICATION- -- FO:RM •D
For privately owned treatment, systems treating .100%. domesti wastewaters <1.0 MGD
Mail the complete application to:
N. C. Department of Environment and Natural R sources
Division of Water Quality / NPDES Unit
1617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC: 2769 -1617
NPDES Permit COO S
Please print or type.
1. Contact Information:
Owner Name �C12 l-1' 6-A �'r-E Y 1J C 1Y►a
Facility Name W 1 (_L (� l,v U pk �-- �- KEE _5% 2 W T P
Mailing Address p p d U aL
City a rj N ��- '0:: LX
State / Zip Code
Telephone Number -2-7- 6
Fax Number (SZ S) $ g — 2 Z Y Q
e-mail Address V_ A ►-j r V-Y 4�p
2. Location of facility producing discharge:
Check here if same address as above ❑
Street Address or State Road
City
State / Zip Code N C_ c
County lAS R l t�
3. Operator Information:
ganization or other entity that operates he facility. (Note that this is not
Name of the firm, public or
referring to the Operator in Responsible Charge or ORC)
Name �S 1����- to f. �-- - C> PA 7
Mailing Address P o 13 ©� 1 Cse
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Telephone Number
Fax Number
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NMES' APPLICATION - FORM
For privately owned treatment systems treating 100% Ite wastewaters <1.0 MGD
4. Description of wastewater:
Facility Generating Wastewater(check all that apply):
Industrial
❑
Number of Employees
Commercial
❑
Number of Employees
Residential
Number of Homes
School
❑
Number of Students/Staff
Other
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Explain: f L
Describe the source(s) of wastewater (example: subdivision, mobile horn
restaurants, etc.):
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Population served: Y4 h C� nn r— .S
5. Type of collection system
�Separate (sanitary sewer only) ❑ Combined (storm sewer,
6. Outfall Information: _
Number of separate discharge points
Outfall Identification number(s) d 6
Is the outfall equipped with a diffuser? 5K Yes ❑ No
7. Name of receiving stream(s) (Provide a map showing the exact
La-,4re.1 -V012.K
8. Frequency of Discharge: [� Continuous ❑ Intermil
If intermittent:
Days per week discharge occurs: Durati
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park, shopping centers,
sanitary sewer)
of each outfall):
9. Describe the treatment system
List all installed components, including capacities, provide design remo al for BOD, TSS, nitrogen and
phosphorus. If the space provided is not sufficient, attach the descriptic n of the treatment system in a
separate sheet of paper.
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NPDES APPLICATION - FORM D
For privately owned treatment systems treating 100% domestic wastewaters <1.0 MGD
10. Flow Information:
Treatment Plant Design flow O , o 3 MGD
Annual Average daily flow O d ® MGD (for the previous 3
Maximum daily flow ' .. 6 I MGD (for the previous 3 years)
11. Is this facility located on Indian country?
❑ Yes (rNo
12. Effluent Data
Provide data for the parameters listed. Fecal Coliform, Temperature and pH shall be grab samples, for all other
parameters 24-hour composite sampling shall be used. If more than one analysis is reported, report daily maximum
and monthly average. If only one analysis is reported, report as daily maximum.
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13. List all permits, construction approvals and/or applications:
permit Number
Type • Permit Number
Type
Hazardous Waste (RCRA)
NESHAPS (CAA)
Ocean Dumping (MPRS
)
UIC (SDWA)
14C OD (Q
t 4 2- r Dredge or fill'(Section 4C
4 or CWA)
NPDES
PSD (CAA)
Other
Non -attainment program (CAA)
14. APPLICANT CERTIFICATION
v.I certify that I am familiar with the information contained in the
information is true, complete,
application and that to the
and accurate.
best of my knowledge and belief such
Mop ti
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Printed name of Person Signing
Title
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of Applicant I Date
North Carolina General Statute 143-215.6 (b)(2) states: Any person who knowingly makes any t
application, record, report, plan, or other document files or required to be maintained under Article
Commission implementing that Article, or who falsifies, tampers with, or knowly renders inaccurate
to be operated or maintained under Article 21 or regulations of the Environmental Management Con
misdemeanor
to exceed
sonment not to exceed six
punishment by a fine punishable
t0
not more than$25 000 or imprisonment not mnore than 5 yeas, or both, for am(
oa(
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statement representation, or certification in any
or regulations of the Environmental Management
recording or monitoring device or method required
ssion implementing that Article, shall be guilty of a
s, or by both. (18 U.S.C. Section 1001 provides a
iilar offense.)
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Form-D 4/05

FACT SHEET FOR EXPEDITED PERMIT RENEWALS
u�vid- infnrmatinn to dPtPrmine nntential for expedited permit renewal
Reviewer/Date
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Permit Number
Facility Name
Basin Name/Sub-basin number
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Receiving Stream
Stream Classification in Permit
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Does permit need NH3 limits?
Does permit need TRC limits?
Does permit have toxicity testing?
Does permit have Special Conditions?
Does permit have instream monitoring?
Is the stream impaired (on 303(d) list)?
Any obvious compliance concerns?
Any permit mods since lastpermit?
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Existing expiration date
New expiration date
New permit effective date
Miscellaneous Comments
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YES This is a SIMPLE EXPEDITED permit renewal (administrative
renewal with no changes, or only minor changes such as TRC, NH3,
name/ownership changes). Include conventional WTPs in this group.
YES_ This is a MORE COMPLEX EXPEDITED permit renewal (includes
Special Conditions (such as EAA, Wastewater Management Plan), 303(d)
listed, toxicity testing, instream monitoring, compliance concerns, phased
limits). Basin Coordinator to make case -by -case decision.
YES_ This permit CANNOT BE EXPEDITED for one of the following reasons:
• Major Facility (municipal/industrial)
• Minor Municipals with pretreatment program
• Minor Industrials subject to Fed Effluent Guidelines (lb/day limits for BOD, TSS,
etc)
• Limits based on reasonable potential analysis (metals, GW remediation organics)
• Permitted flow > 0.5 MGD (requires full Fact Sheet)
• Permits determined by Basin Coordinator to be outside expedited process
TB Version 8/18/2006 (NPDES Server/Current Versions/Expedited Fact Sheet)

Re: [Fwd:,Re: NCO061425 Willow Valley Watauga County]
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: NCO061425 Willow Valley Watauga County]
From: Sue White <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:35:10 -0500
To: [e-mail]
CC: Charles Weaver <[e-mail]>, Susan A Wilson <[e-mail]>
Charles:
During review in response to violation I noticed that this permit was written so that the flow
measurement frequency reads Weekly and the Sample Type reads Continuous. I looked at other permits
with continuous flow monitoring requirements and the standard seems to be frequency Continuous and
Sample Type Recording. If this permit has not been rewritten yet to change requirements for C12
monitoring, could the flow monitoring be changed at the same time? Thanks!
Sue White
NC DENR Winston-Salem Regional Office
Division of Water Quality, Water Quality Section
585 Waughtown Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27107
Voice: [phone] ext 285
FAX: [phone]
On 9/6/2005 9:08 AM, Steve Tedder wrote:
Charles,
I'm not concerned about the violations being removed. I'll handle those.
The facility has UV disinfection and has had this prior to the reissuance in 2003. The permit should
not have included a chlorine limit when it was issued in Feb.2003.
I do think we need to consider this an administrative error on our part during the issuance back in
2003 and proceed to modify the permit (remove the Chlorine limits) as an administrative clean up
rather than having them go through the hoops for requesting a permit modification and paying any
fees and taking months to clean this up.. Hq and or the region and the permittee all should have
caught this back in 2003.
Can you proceed to make this permit limit modification w/o the request from the permittee?
Thanks]
Tedder
On 9/6/2005 9:01 AM, Sue White wrote:
Steve:
FYI
------- Original Message--------
Subject:Re: NCO061425 Willow Valley Watauga County
Date:Tue, 06 Sep 2005 06:16:24 -0400
From:Charles Weaver <[e-mail]>
To:[e-mail]
References: <431875 [e-mail]>
1 of 2 11/14/2005 7:16 AM