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Mr. Lon Snider
NC Department of Environment and Natural Resource
Division of Water Resources
Water Quality Regional Supervisor
450 W Hanes Mill Road
Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27105
RE: Sanitary Sewer Overflow —730 Industrial Park Dr.
Dear Mr. Snider:
February 18, 2022
- NC Department of
Environmental Quality
Received
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Regional Office
The City of Asheboro Water/Sewer Maintenance Department received a call on November 29th, 2021 about a
manhole running over near the address of 730 Industrial Park Dr. The Water/Sewer Maintenance Department's
investigator responded immediately. The investigator found the problem was that manhole # 4074 was overflowing. He
called a crew in to unstop the sewer immediately.
The crew arrived and used a Vactor combination truck to run a jetter nozzle into down stream manhole towards
MH# 4074 to knockout the blockage. When the sewer dropped out, we ran a camera into the main to find root
intrusion in the joints of the pipe. The following day we sent a crew with a root cutter and camera to remove the roots
until the main was clear of all obstructions. We also found some roots in the next downstream section of main and
removed them. The crew put out 50 lbs. of lime around the manhole where the sewer came in contact with the
ground. None of the sewer reached surface waters it stayed contained until we were able to vacuum all that had
overflowed from the manhole.
The City of Asheboro requests that the NCDENR refrain from taking any enforcement action as a result of this
incident. The Water/Sewer Maintenance Department displayed a prompt response time. There was no environmental
impact. Thank you for your consideration in this matter. If you have any questions, please contact me at [phone]
ext. 2205.
Sincerely,
Shannon White
Water/Sewer Maintenance
Superintendent
Mailing Address: Phone: [phone] Physical Address:
PO Box 1106 Fax: [phone] North Church Street
Asheboro, NC 27204 w .asheboronc.gov Asheboro, NC 27203