NC0086801_Permit Modification_20101217

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NCDENR
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Division of Water Quality
Beverly Eaves Perdue Coleen H. Sullins Dee Freeman
Governor Director Secretary
December 17, 2010
Mr. Charles Brown
Manager
Town of Mount Olive
P.O.Box 939
Mount Olive,North Carolina 28365
Subject: NPDES Permit Modification
Permit Number NC0086801
Gordon Street WTP
Wayne County
Dear Mr. Brown:
The Division received your request for permit modification on December 9, 2010. Division staff
reviewed the request and the subject permit.
Unfortunately,at this time we cannot modify the permit. The Division's October 2009 Water
Treatment Plant(WTP)strategy has been applied to WTP's statewide as they have come up for renewal.
This permit has never had the strategy applied;therefore, it cannot be applied selectively(in this case to
settleable solids and iron). Your permit is due to expire January 31,2012 and the strategy for
conventional water treatment plants will be applied to the next permit in its entirety(see Table 3.1).
For your reference,I have included a copy of the pages in our WTP Strategy that apply to
conventional water treatment plants. Deems Blanton was contacted on December 17,2010 to confirm
that this WTP is a conventional plant as a previous renewal application stated it was a green sand filter
system. Mr.Blanton confirmed it is a conventional system and mentioned that the green sand was
changed out approximately 4 years ago.
If you have any questions or need additional information, please do not hesitate to contact
Maureen Scardina of my staff at(919) 807-6388.
Sincerely,
/ oleen H. Sullins
Enclosure: WTP Strategy for Conventional WTPs
cc: Central Files
NPDES Unit Files
Washington Regional Office, Surface Water Protection Section
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December 7, 2010
Mr. Jeff Poupart
Point Source Branch
Division of Water Quality
1617 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1617
Subject: Request for Minor NPDES Modification
NPDES Permit #NC0086801
Town of Mount Olive
Gordon Street WTP
Wayne County
Dear Mr. Poupart:
The Town of Mount Olive holds NPDES permit number NC0086801 for the backwash flow
from the conventional water treatment plant. The permit currently has a weekly monitoring
requirement for iron and settleable solids. The Town is requesting a minor permit modification
to change the measurement frequency for these parameters from weekly to quarterly. This
change would be consistent with the monitoring requirements outlined in the NPDES
Permitting Strategies for Potable Water Treatment Plants (October 2009).
We appreciate your assistance in this matter. If you have any additional questions, please call
Deems Blanton, Water Plant Superintendent at 919/658-6213 or 919/738-1025.
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