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Home My WebLink AboutNCG550230_Compliance Evaluation Inspection_20160229 PAT MCCRORY Governor DONALD R. VAN DER VAART Secretary S. JAY ZIMMERMAN Water Resources Ulreclor ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY February 29, 2016 Mr. Don Kellum 5715 Cascade Drive Chapel Hill,NC 27514 Subject: Compliance Evaluation Inspection Single Family Wastewater Treatment System Permit No.NCG550230 Orange County Dear Mr. Kellum: On February 26, 2016 Ray Milosh 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. 0 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. ❑ 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. 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 7914200 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: 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. n 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. 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. n 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 the inspector 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, 07/9 Danny Smith, Supervisor Surface Water Protection Raleigh Regional Office cc: RRO/SWP Files Charles_Weaver NPDES_Permit_ting Unit- Attachments 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 j 2 I5 31 NCG550230 111 12 I 16/02/26 117 18 l,.l 1912] 2011 21I III II III I II I IIII III IIII I I IIIII IIIIIIIII II p6 Inspection Work Days Facility Self-Monitoring Evaluation Rating B1 QA Reserved 67I 1 70I LJ 1 711 I 72 1 I 1 73I I I74 759 I I I I I I 180 Section B:Facility Data LJ . 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) 11:45AM 16/02/26 13/08/01 5715 Cascade Drive 5715 Cascade Dr • Exit Time/Date Permit Expiration Date Chapel Hill NC 27514 12:15PM 16/02/26 18/07/31 Name(s)of Onsite Representative(s)/Titles(s)/Phone and Fax Number(s) Other Facility Data /// • Name,Address of Responsible Official/Title/Phone and Fax Number Contacted Don Kellum,5715 Cascade Dr Chapel Hill NC 27514//919-383-1957/ No Section C:Areas Evaluated During Inspection(Check only those areas evaluated) III Operations&Maintenance MI Facility Site Review 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 Raymond M Milosh RRO GW//919-715-0588/ 2/�9/J S' natur f Manageme Q A Renewer Agency/Office/Phone and Fax Numbers Date & I/i?Ala .0',) /f . 4/202-(3 .2 /4- /K- ..--- EPA Form 356 -3(Rev 9-94)Previous editions are obsolete. Page# 1 NPDES yr/mo/day Inspection Type (Cont.) 1 31 NCG550230 I11 121 16/02/26 117 18 I c I Section D:Summary of Finding/Comments(Attach additional sheets of narrative and checklists as necessary) Septic tank is 50 ft SW of house. Riser at inlet. No riser at sanitary tee. Sand filter is SW of 2nd riser in woods. There is a second riser with an inlet pipe in the middle and an outlet pipe at the bottom with water trickling through it. I don't know its function. I was unable to find the chlorinator or the outlet. Don Kellum called. He pumps the tank every 3 to 5 years and has never had a problem with it. there is a chlorinator, a contact chamber and an outlet with rip rap below it and a weir. I'm thinking it must be further southwest of the sand filter on what I incorrectly believed to be the neighbors'property. Mr Kellum stated theeat there are currently CI tablets in the chlorinator.. • Page# 2 Permit: NCG550230 Owner-Facility: 5715 Cascade Drive Inspection Date: 02/28/2018 Inspection Type: Compliance Evaluation Operations & Maintenance Yes No NA NE Is the plant generally clean with acceptable housekeeping? 11 0 0 0 Does the facility analyze process control parameters,for ex: MLSS, MCRT, Settleable 0 0 11 ❑ Solids,pH, DO, Sludge Judge, and other that are applicable? Comment: Septic Tank Yes No NA NE (If pumps are used)Is an audible and visual alarm operational? 0 0 • 0 Is septic tank pumped on a schedule? • 0 0 0 Are pumps or syphons operating properly? 0 0 • 0 Are high and low water alarms operating properly? 0 0 • 0 Comment: Sand Filters (Low rate) Yes No NA NE (If pumps are used)Is an audible and visible alarm Present and operational? 0 0 • 0 Is the distribution box level and watertight? 0 0 • 0 Is sand filter free of ponding? • 0 0 0 Is the sand filter effluent re-circulated at a valid ratio? 0 0 11 ❑ #Is the sand filter surface free of algae or excessive vegetation? • 0 0 0 #Is the sand filter effluent re-circulated at a valid ratio?(Approximately 3 to 1) 0 ❑" • 0 Comment: Disinfection-Tablet Yes No NA NE Are tablet chlorinators operational? • 0 0 0 Are the tablets the proper size and type? • 0 0 0 Number of tubes in use? Is the level of chlorine residual acceptable? 0 El • El Is the contact chamber free of growth, or sludge buildup? • 0 0 0 Is there chlorine residual prior to de-chlorination? 0 0 1 ❑ Comment: Page# 3