NCG550072_Compliance Evaluation Inspection_20170619

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ROY COOPER
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. MICHAEL S.REGAN
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Secretary
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June 14, 2017
RECEI JEDINCDE
Deborah Nichols ,JUN 19 2C�11®
5409 Bobcat Road
Chapel Hill,NC 27516 Water Quality
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Permittin9
Subject: Compliance Evaluation Inspection
Single Family Wastewater Treatment System
Permit No.NCG550072
Orange County
Ms.Nichols:
On June 13, 2017, staff from the Raleigh Regional Office visited your single-family residence(SFR)
wastewater treatment system to evaluate compliance with the above permit to discharge wastewater. The
checked boxes below show what conditions were noted at your facility:
® In compliance: You are reminded to regularly maintain the chlorine disinfection and dechlorination
systems,have the effluent sampled once a year, and have the septic tank pumped out every 3 to 5 years.
Your good record of operation and meeting the permit requirements is highly commended.
❑Your home is improperly plumbed: Some of the wastewater discharges are going directly to the
environment without first passing through the treatment system. This must be corrected immediately.
Please submit a schedule to this office within 20 days of receipt of this letter that states your plan for
correcting this deficiency. The work is to be completed within the next 3 months.
❑ Disinfection: Your system is lacking disinfection, either chlorine tablets or a UV light system. New
rules put into place on August 1, 2007 require all SFR systems to have a means of disinfection(and
dechlorination when chlorine tablets are used to disinfect, if the system was installed since that date).
Since your system had no disinfection, the installation is to include a chlorine tablet dispenser, a contact
chamber capable of providing a minimum 30 minute contact time, and another tablet dispenser that will
hold dechlorination tablets. Please submit a schedule to this office within 20 calendar days of receipt of
this letter that states your plan for correcting this deficiency.
❑ Treatment tablets missing or are wrong kind: You are responsible for always having chlorine
tablets and dechlorination tablets (if a required part of your system) in place. They must be the kind for
wastewater treatment and not for swimming pools.
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❑ Dechlorination: Your system was installed after August 1, 2007, so must have a means of
dechlorination located downstream of the chlorinator and its contact chamber. See Disinfection
paragraph above. Please submit a schedule to this office within 20 calendar days of receipt of this letter
stating your plan for correcting this deficiency.
State of North Carolina I Environmental Quality I Water Resources I Raleigh Regional Office
1628 Mail service Center I Raleigh,North Carolina 27699-1628
919 791-4200

n Pumping the septic tank: The septic tank should be pumped out every 3 to 5 years. A pumping
company can check the status periodically and determine when pumping is required.Permittee will
submit receipts from last pumping.
D Failure to analyze the effluent: The effluent that is discharged from your system must be analyzed
once each year. See Part I(A) of your permit about his requirement. A list of NC certified laboratories
that provide this service was left at your residence during the inspection. Permittee will submit last
sampling event within:30 days of this letter. -
❑ Locations of treatment units are unknown: Determine this and report to this office within 30 days
of receipt of this letter with a sketch or map.
❑ Other:
If you have questions or comments about this inspection or the requirements to take corrective action,please
contact Gary Kreiser or me at 919-791-4200. Licensed plumbers should be used to make plumbing changes
within your home. Contractors for installing disinfection or other equipment may be found in the Yellow Pages
under Environmental Consultants.
— — -- - ---- Sincerely,• - -- — — —
S. Daniel Smith, Supervisor -
Water Quality Regional Supervisor
Raleigh Regional Office
Attachments: Inspection Reports
cc: RRO/SWP Files
Cliarles Weaver,NPDES Peri ittiiig'Unit'"'-=i •

United States Environmental Protection Agency Form Approved.
EPA Washington,D.C.20460 OMB No.2040-0057
Water Compliance Inspection Report Approval expires 8-31-98
Section A:National Data System Coding(i.e.,PCS)
yr/mo/day Inspection Type Inspector Fac Type
Transaction Code NPDES 1 i I ' 2 ILI 3 I NCG550072 111 12 1 17/06/13 117 18 19 11.1 20 u
2 III 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 I I 1 I 1 1 1 I I I I 1 I I I 1 UI I
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B1 QA Reserved
Inspection Work Days Facility Self-Monitoring Evaluation Rating - 71 � 72 � 731 1 I74 751 1 1 I I 1 I 180
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70 Li Section B:Facility Data
Entry Time/Date Permit Effective Date
Name and Location of Facility Inspected(For Industrial Users discharging to POTW,also include Entry
17/06/13 Effectiv 1
POTW name and NPDES permit Number)
5409 Bobcat Road Exit Time/Date Permit Expiration Date
5409 Bobcat Rd 10:55AM 17/06/13 18/07/31
Chapel Hill NC 27516
Name(s)of Onsite Representative(s)/Tities(s)/Phone and Fax Number(s)
Other Facility Data
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Name,Address of Responsible Official/Title/Phone and Fax Number
Contacted
Deborah Nlchols,5409 Bobcat Rd Chapel Hill NC 27516//919-968-9193/ No
Section C:Areas Evaluated During Inspection(Check only those areas evaluated)
® Other
Section D:Summary of Finding/Comments(Attach additional sheets of narrative and checklists as necessary)
(See attachment summary)
Agency/Office/Phone and Fax Numbers
Date
Name(s)and Signature(s)of Inspector(s)
Gary S Kreiser RRO WCU/919-733-5083/
Date
Sig 2ture f Management A Review A ency/Office/Pho a and ax Numbers
Q 71/ G 15�-1
EPA Form 356 (Rev 9-94)Previous editions are obsolete.
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NPDES yr/mo/day Inspection Type 1
31 NCG550072 I'i 121 17/06/13 117 18 I�'
Section D:Summary of Finding/Comments(Attach additional sheets of narrative and checklists as necessary)
Owner not home--backyard fenced and locked could not access backyard. Owner called back and
answered questions. Owner seemed knowledge of system and had septic tank pumped out 2 weeks
before.
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