NCS000400_Email RE Jamestown MS4 Permit Public Comments_20240609 (4)

Georgoulias, Bethany
From: Nicki Stewart <[e-mail]>
Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2024 7:03 PM
To: Lawyer, Mike; Reed, Isaiah L
Cc: [e-mail]; [e-mail]
Subject: [External] Jamestown NC NPDES MS4 permit NCS000400
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Mr. Lawyer and Mr. Reed:
I find it nothing short of outrageous that the town manager indicates in section 3.4 (MS4
Interconnection) of his Stormwater Management Plan that he has NO IDEA who or what stormwater
we are receiving from other sources; has NO IDEA of the total interconnections - how many or where
they are, or where they are coming from; and has NO IDEA of the number of OUTFALLS from other
NCDOT MS4 mapped sources?
Then why even bother with a stormwater permit? Why go to the trouble of having a stormwater map,
or stormwater plan, or water quality testing or ANYTHING regulating water, if a big overriding layer of
unknown/secret incoming contamination and sludge is ending up in Jamestown from who-knows-
how-many unknown sources over which Jamestown has NO KNOWLEDGE?
This is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.
EPA - TAKE NOTE: TAKE OVER THE STORMWATER PERMITTING, MONITORING AND
ENFORCEMENT FOR JAMESTOWN, THE RANDLEMAN WATERSHED, AND GUILFORD
COUNTY.
Jamestown may be small, but we are in a critical hydrogeological location where many critical water
supply streams carrying discharge from the furniture, textiles, chemicals, auto parts, bus and waste
industries merge together and continue south as Deep River to Randleman Lake (our drinking water)
to the Cape Fear River. More HERE: https://themamestowner9.com/water-quality-mamestown-nc/the-
worse-it-gets/
Think of it this way: Jamestown is the end spout of a very big, dirty funnel filled with chemicals, VOCs,
PFAS, 1 ,4-Dioxane, dirty metals and solid waste from the industrial mixing bowls of Greensboro, High
Point and Guilford County.
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In section 3.5 of the SWMP, the TMDL (total maximum daily load) listed for Jamestown's waterways
SUGGESTS that there is only ONE - for fecal coliform. Absurd.
THE REASON THERE IS ONLY ONE TMDL IS BECAUSE THE TOWN OF JAMESTOWN,
GUILFORD COUNTY, RANDLEMAN LAKE/PTRWA, AND THE NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION OF
WATER RESOURCES REFUSE TO TEST OUR WATERWAYS FOR THE OBVIOUS TOXINS,
CARCINOGENS AND CONTAMINANTS THAT ARE BEING DISCHARGED INTO DEEP RIVER
AND OUR WATERWAYS! Details here: https://themamestowner9.com/public-comments-and-citizen-
complaints/303d-deep-river-bull-run/
What in the world is going on here!!??? Why would you accept this - isn't the role of the NC Division
of Water Resources to help enforce the application of the rules put into place by the
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY to protect our surface waters and drinking water?
I would also like to say that this permit should be denied simply because of its failure to meet the first
two requirements of the NPDES MS4 permit: PUBLIC EDUCATION/OUTREACH and PUBLIC
INVOLVEMENT/PARTICIPATION.
This town does NOTHING to provide education, participation, outreach, volunteer clean-up, waterway
stewardship, erosion/sedimentation watch (on all the new construction), water test, education on the
new UCMR regulations, etc.
In fact, residents of Jamestown and the surrounding communities are so intentionally misled about
what is happening in this area with respect to water and development that we've had to take it upon
ourselves to stay educated and informed via social media groups and a website set up by Jamestown
residents. See www.themamestowner9.com, Jamestown United Facebook page, Environmental and
Sustainability Coalition of Jamestown and The Deep River Project. ALL of these groups came to
fruition in the past two years because of misinformation and lack of information from the Town of
Jamestown's town manager, town staff, and town council.
The "Organizational Chart" submitted in Part 4 of the SWMP is nothing but a cartoon. The "Citizens of
Jamestown" are NOT on top of the organizational chart, with the Mayor, Town Council and staff
reporting to us as this cartoon suggests. The way Jamestown is currently operating is with the town
manager in the box at the top of the org chart, and the citizens of Jamestown at the bottom.
In section 4.2 of the SWMP, the town manager states that the Town of Jamestown shall maintain
adequate funding and staffing to implement and manage the provisions of the SWMP and comply
with the requirements of the NPDES MS4 Permit and that the town funds the Stormwater Program
through its general fund. The town began charging us a stormwater fee last year (while this permit
was still expired, and while we had NO stormwater program) to raise, as this section suggests,
$58,000 for its stormwater budget.
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However, last February, the Jamestown mayor and town council voted to spend a jaw-dropping $2.3
million of our $2.8 million ARPA funding (for municipal water quality, sewer and infrastructure
projects) for a totally unnecessary ONE MILE OF BRICK SIDEWALK on property that belongs to the
Guilford County School System.
One Jamestown resident put together a cost estimate for a one-mile brick sidewalk and figured that at
the high end, it should cost no more than $349,468, leaving a leftover/profit of $1 ,950,532. The
unnecessary sidewalk project is still on the books as a priority OVER the repairs we so desperately
need - repairs to our culverts, stream banks, major cleanup of Deep River, water quality testing and
information, flooding, perpetually clogged storm grates in floodprone areas of town.
Instead, Jamestown's town council and mayor are spending $54.32 per square foot for a brick
sidewalk. Details on that are HERE: https://themamestowner9.com/water-quality-mamestown-nc/arpa-
funds-m isuse-abuse-iamestown-nc-quilford-county/
In addition, Jamestown, Deep River and the Randleman Watershed was completely excluded from a
recipient pool in which towns across North Carolina received hundreds of millions of dollars for water
and sewer infrastructure projects. Those awards were funded by a portion of the $2.3 billion from
President Biden's American Rescue Plan Act, State Revolving Funds (including Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law funds), and Community Development Block Grant funding. It was done through the
NC General Assembly's 2023 Appropriations Act, and the NCDEQ is administering the grants. Details
HERE: https://themamestowner9.com/water-quality-mamestown-nc/ptrwa-randleman-lake/no-water-
infrastructure-funds-iamestown-nc/
The Town of Jamestown either did NOTHING to request funding, or was turned down for some other
reason. In either case, this too should provide enough evidence that this town is out of the loop and in
way over its head when it comes to managing stormwater, infrastructure and water quality.
Now they're telling us we need to pay for an expansion of the PTRWA/Randleman Reservoir EVEN
THOUGH Jamestown's population and water usage has DECREASED. Details
HERE: https://themamestowner9.com/local-government/mamestown-nc-property-tax-increase/
The town of Jamestown has CHOSEN to ignore stormwater and wastewater issues for YEARS
(details HERE - scroll down about halfway to the start of SECTION
2: https://themamestowner9.com/permit-violations-mamestown-nc/mamestown-expired-npdes-
stormwater-perm it-update/)
This permit should not be renewed. The EPA needs to come in and take over.
Sincerely,
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Nicki Stewart
307 Jordan Crossing Avenue
Jamestown, NC 27282
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