NC0024406_Memo from Coleen Sullins_19921102

November 2, 1992
MEMORANDUM
TO: Carla Sanderson
FROM: Coleen Sullins
SUBJECT: Duke Power - Belews Lake
NCO024406
Stokes County
WLA# 6802, 6801, 6800, and 6799
I have held the above wasteload allocation fact sheets while we tried to determine the
origin of the Total Suspended Solids special condition that allowed discharges in excess
of the TSS limit, if it could be proved that the source waters had suspended solids in
higher concentrations. This condition has been in the permits since the 1970's. One fact
sheet specified the regulation which allowed for this type of a variance, but upon
checking the specified regulations, we discovered that it was the wrong citation.
Subsequently, we checked with Duke Power, to see if their files indicated the reason for
the variance and the regulation which allowed for it. Per conversation with Duke Power
personnel today, they have been unable to trace the source. Additionally, upon review of
instream TSS concentrations and the permit compliance, they did not see a need for the
condition. It is believed that the condition originated when Belews Lake was first being
created and thus had higher suspended solids in the source waters. Therefore, the
condition will be removed from the permit language when it is sent to public notice.
cc: Randy Kepler