NCG550135_Compliance Evaluation Inspection_20120123

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NCDENR
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Division of Water Quality
Beverly Eaves Perdue Chuck Walkild P.E. Dee Freeman
Governor Director Secretary
January 23, 2012
Mr. Richard Wiersma JAN 2 7 2012
1631 St. Mary's Road
Hillsborough,NC 27278 CENTRAL FILES
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Subject: Compliance Evaluation Inspection
Single Family Wastewater Treatment System
Permit No. NCG550135
Orange County
Mr. or Mrs. Wiersma:
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On January 23, 2012 Tom Ascenzo from the Raleigh Regional Office visited your single-family
residence (SFR) wastewater treatment system to evaluate compliance with the above permit to discharge
wastewater. Your assistance during the inspection was greatly appreciated. The checked boxes below
show what conditions were noted at your facility:
❑ In compliance. You are reminded to regularly maintain the chlorine disinfection system,
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.
n 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.
(1 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.
(l 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. NorthCarolina
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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.
❑ Pumping the septic tank. You are to have the septic tank pumped out every 3 to 5 years. A
pumping company can check the status periodically and determine when pumping is required.
El Failure to analyze the effluent from your system once each year. See Part I(A) of your
permit about hit requirement. At the time of inspection a list of laboratories in NC certified to
provide this service was provided to you. Make arrangements for sampling to be carried out
within the next 3 months, and submit results to this office within 3 weeks after the sampling has
been done. : ,
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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: It was indicated during the inspection that the discharge point is subsurface and
cannot be located. Please arrange that a lab is consulted to take a sample of the discharge in an
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area located after the chlorinator contact chamber, this might involve contacting a plumber and
installing an access point in the piping for this purpose.
If you have questions or comments about this inspection or the requirements to take corrective action,
please contact Tom Ascenzo at 919-791-4256. 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,
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S. Daniel Smith, Supervisor
Surface Water Protection
Raleigh Regional Office
Attachments
cc: RRO/SWP Files
Central Files

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)
Transaction Code NPDES yr/mo/day Inspection Type Inspector Fac Type
1 I.J 2 I S U I 31 NCG550135 111 121 12/01/23 117 181 r l 19I c► 20 u
J Remarks U
211 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII66
Inspection Work Days Facility Self-Monitoring Evaluation Rating B1 QA Reserved
671 169 70[J 7111
72I N I 731 I 174 751 I I I I I I 180
Section B: Facility Data
Name and Location of Facility Inspected(For Industrial Users discharging to POTW,also include Entry Time/Date Permit Effective Date
POTW name and NPDES permit Number)
10:00 AM 12/01/23 07/08/01
1631 St.Mary's Road
1631 St Mary's Rd Exit Time/Date Permit Expiration Date
Hillsborough NC 27278 10:30 AM 12/01/23 12/07/31
Name(s)of Onsite Representative(s)/Titles(s)/Phone and Fax Number(s) Other Facility Data
N/
Name,Address of Responsible Official/Title/Phone and Fax Number
Contacted
Richard L Wiersma,1631 St Mary's Rd Hillsborough NC 27278//919-732-4843/ No
Section C: Areas Evaluated During Inspection(Check only those areas evaluated)
1111 Permit II Operations&Maintenance •Records/Reports •Self-Monitoring Program
III Facility Site Review •Effluent/Receiving Waters
Section D: Summary of Finding/Comments(Attach additional sheets of narrative and checklists as necessary)
(See attachment summary)
Name(s)and Signature(s)� �of Inspector(s) Agency/Office/Phone and Fax Numbers Date
torn ascenzo /'✓3Li ' RRO WQ//919-791-4200/ //2 /—>lo/-2-
Signatur of Manage ent Q A R 'ewer , ( AcY/OfficehOandFaXmberS ji Date
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EPA Form 60-3(Rev 9-94)Previous editi ns are obsolete.
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Permit: NCG550135 Owner-Facility: 1631 St.Mary's Road
Inspection Date: 01/23/2012 Inspection Type: Compliance Evaluation
Operations & Maintenance Yes No NA NE
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Is the plant generally clean with acceptable housekeeping? ■ ❑ ❑ ❑
facility analyze processcontrolparameters, ex: ML MC
RT,the ac ty a a yze pa a e e s,for SS, MCR , Settleable Solids, pH, DO, Sludge 0 0 0 ■
Judge, and other that are applicable?
Comment:
Permit Yes No NA NE
(If the present permit expires in 6 months or less). Has the permittee submitted a new application? 0 0 ■ 0
Is the facility as described in the permit? ■ ❑ ❑ ❑
#Are there any special conditions for the permit? 0 0 • 0
Is access to the plant site restricted to the general public? 0 0 ■ 0
Is the inspector granted access to all areas for inspection? ■ ❑ ❑ ❑
Comment: System pumped out in 2009. Correct tablet are being used. Resident
cannot locate discharge pipe. No evidence of surface discharge.
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