NCS000331_DOD Fort Bragg 2017 Annual Report_20170817

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
US ARMY INSTALLATION MANAGEMENT COMMAND
HEADQUARTERS, UNITED STATES ARMY GARRISON, FORT BRAGG
2175 REILLY ROAD, STOP A
FORT BRAGG NORTH CAROLINA 28310-5000
July 26, 2017
SUBJECT: Storm Water Program Annual Report, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Department of Environmental Quality
Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources
Land Quality Section
Stormwater Permitting Unit
1617 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1617
Dear Sir/Madam,
Enclosed you will find the Fort Bragg Storm Water Program Annual Report. The
report gives a detailed description of the status of the storm water program from 1 April
2016 through 31 March 2017.
For further information, please contact Mr. Lee Ward, Chief, Water Management
Section at [phone].
Sincerely,
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Monica A. Stephenson
Director of Public Works

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Fort Bragg Stormwater Program Annual Report— Year
Monitoring Period: 1 April 2016 — 31 March 2017
I certify under penalty of law, that this document and all attachments were prepared
under my direction or supervision, in accordance with a system designed to assure that
qualified personnel properly gather and evaluate the information submitted. Based on
my inquiry of the person or persons who manage the system, or those persons directly
responsible for gathering the information, the information submitted is, to the best of my
knowledge and belief, true, accurate, and complete. I am aware that there are
significant penalties for submitting false information, including the possibility of fines and
imprisonment for knowing violations.
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Monica A.Stephensd"n I
Director of Public Works

Table of Contents
I. Program Summary and Assessment
Il. Minimum Control Measures Discussions
A. Education and Outreach
B. Public Involvement
C. Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination
D. Construction Site Stormwater Runoff Control
E. Post -Construction Stormwater Management
F. Pollution Prevention and Good Housekeeping
G. Monitoring and Evaluation
III. Proposed Program Changes

Program Summary and Assessment
Fort Bragg is authorized to discharge stormwater and continue operation of oil water
separators not associated with wastewater facilities under North Carolina Department
of Environment Quality (NCDEQ), Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources
Quality, Permit Number NCS000331 (initial effective 1 April 2011 — 31 March 2016,
renewal effective 1 April 2016 — 31 March 2021, amended 6, July 2016), hereinafter
"the Permit." In accordance with Part III and Part IV of the permit, Fort Bragg hereby
submits this report in fulfillment of its annual reporting requirement.
Fort Bragg believes the single best indicator of how the Stormwater Management
Program is performing is by monitoring the amount of pollution entering the stormwater.
The results of this Year's sampling analysis did not detect frequencies of exceedance
of water quality standards. Additionally, no detectable trends in concentrations of
constituents occurred upon review of the historical stormwater sampling data.
This annual report provides the updated status of the Installations
implementation of the Permit requirements, including compliance with the standard of
reducing the discharge of pollutants to the Maximum Extent Practicable (MEP).

II. Minimum Control Measures Discussions
A. Public Education and Outreach
According to Part Il, Section B of the Phase II permit, the objectives of the Public
Education and Outreach measure is to distribute educational materials to the community
or conduct equivalent outreach activities about the impacts of stormwater discharges on
water bodies and the steps that the public can take to reduce pollutants in stormwater
runoff. The target audiences have been identified as construction contractors and
inspectors, housing residents, environmental compliance officers, and range operation
personnel. The following Public Education and Outreach activities were completed
during this Year's reporting period;
• Fort Bragg continued its public outreach campaign educating the community
about the impacts of storm water discharges on water bodies and the steps the
can be taken to reduce pollutants in stormwater runoff by distributing over 900
Water Management Brochures.
• Fort Bragg has completed its Thirteen year of its stormwater inlet labeling
campaign "Only Rain in the Storm Drain". To date well over six thousand storm
drain markers have been installed as a component of Fort Bragg's continuing
efforts to educate soldiers and their families to better understand the
consequences of allowing pollutants to enter our storm drain system.
• The initial 20 hour and 8 hour refresher Environmental Compliance
Officer/Environmental Compliance Assistant training continued each month with
a total of 889 students trained. Additionally, training and outreach occurred
throughout the year at the unit level during the Compliance Assessment Team
(CAT) inspections of industrial areas.
• WMS continued sediment/erosion control and stormwater controls training on an
ad hoc basis during numerous construction site inspections. This training
includes project design, NCDEQ requirements, and control measures installation
and maintenance.

B. Public Involvement and Participation
According to Part II, Section C of the Phase II permit, the objectives of the Public Involvement
and Participation measure is to comply with State and local public notice requirements when
implementing a public involvement and participation program. The target audience for this
measure has been identified as the Installation population and local volunteers that can be
involved in stream/lake cleanup or storm drain stenciling activities. The following activities
were completed for this Year's reporting period.
• Fort Bragg Continued "Adopt a Lake" activity for McFayden Pond by having an
individual military unit commit to revisit the lake annually to perform cleanup
around the lake and adjacent park.
• Fort Bragg continued holding "Operation Clean Sweep" initiatives across the
installation. All units on Fort Bragg (over 50,000 Soldiers) participate in the week
long installation wide clean-up program. The soldiers police -up trash and sweep
common areas to include around barracks, offices, parking lots, recreational
areas, and roads.
• Earth Day April 22, 2016- Fort Bragg's social media campaign for Earth Day
asked the community, What can you do to be sustainable? Sustainability is a
team effort seeded in integrity. Whether it is conserving energy and water, not
littering and picking up trash, or recycling, it is The Right Way.! The Green Way.!
All the Way!

C. Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination
According to Part II, Section D of the Phase II permit, the objective of the Illicit Discharge
Detection and Elimination measure is to develop, implement, and enforce a program to
detect and eliminate illicit discharges into the State's waters. The following activities were
completed or were ongoing within this Year's reporting period;
Fort Bragg's GIS maps and contains information depicting the stormwater MS4
system information including pipe material shapes and sizes, drainage
structures, outfalls, detention/retention basins, and monitoring locations. Data
is updated continuously on a regular basis.
Fort Bragg conducts dry weather flow inspects of stormwater outfalls. For this
reporting year, a total of 141 outfalls were inspected at Fort Bragg, Pope and
Simmons Army Airfields, and Camp Mackall. No illicit discharges were
detected.
All Illicit discharges/spills, including sewage, are reported to the Fort Bragg Fire
Department/Spill Response Team and/or DPW Environmental Compliance
Branch. These reports are then forwarded to NCDENR. Copies of spill reports
are maintained in the DPW Environmental Compliance Branch. From 1 April
2016 through 31 March 2017, there were 6 reportable hazardous substance
spills (fuel, oil, gasoline) that reached the Fort Bragg storm drain system.
• Procedures for sanitary sewer overflows are investigated and cleaned up by Old
North Utilities Service (ONUS) and reported to the contracting officer
representative, Stormwater Manager, and NCDNER as necessary.
SEWER RELEASES FOR FORT BRAGG COLLECTION SYSTEM
SANITARY SEWER OVERFLOWS (SSO)
Date
Location
Estimated
Volume
Surface Water
Surface
Cause of SSO
Volume (gal)
(al)
Water Name
4/20/2016
301 N Dougherty
600
600
Tank Creek
Debris in Line
Lift Station 2 building
Power Outage - Pump station
1018/2016
G-6849
6,000
6,000
Big Branch
Equip Failure - Hurricane
Matthew
09/21/2015
C1943
1300
1300
Beaver
Grease Blockage
Creek
12/22/16
Sewer Manhole
1,080
1,080
Tank Creek
Pump Station Equipment
behind BLDG A-4595
Failure

D. Construction Site Stormwater Runoff Control
According to Part II, Section E of the Phase II permit, Fort Bragg's compliance with the
NCDENR Division of Land Resources Erosion and Sediment Control Program
effectively meets the requirements of the Construction Site Runoff Controls. The
following activities were completed within this Year's reporting period;
Construction Site Runoff Control Program
Assessment
QTY
Active NCDEQ Land Disturbing Permits
108
Completed/Closed Out NCDEQ Land
26
Disturbing Permits
Water Management > 1 Ac Land Disturbing
65
Project Approvals
Water Management/Environmental
452
Clearances Project Reviews
Projects Receiving NOVs
0
NCDEQ Erosion & Sediment Control
96
Inspections
Water Management Erosion & Sediment
512
Control Inspections
Publicly Reported Construction Site Issues
2

E. Post -Construction Site Runoff Controls
According to Part II, Section F, 2 of the Phase II permit, To comply with the Post
Construction requirements in 15 NCAC 02H Section .1000, Fort Bragg shall submit, for
approval, plans, supplement forms, specifications, and calculations to the Division for all
projects, including public roads and bridges, that disturb greater than or equal to one acre
including projects less than one acre that are part of a larger common plan of
development. Fort Bragg may reference their approved base wide SCM O&M Plan to
meet a project's O&M requirements. Additionally; to protect water quality in North
Carolina Rivers, streams, and lakes, and the existing uses of such surface waters for
their scenery, swimming, boating, as well as for commercial and recreational fishing Fort
Bragg shall: Maintain an inventory and all plans and documents for Stormwater Control
Measures approved by the State after July 1, 2007. Fort Bragg shall inspect and maintain
all Stormwater Control Measures approved by the State after July 1, 2007 in accordance
with the schedule developed by Fort Bragg
The following activities were completed this reporting period:
Post -Construction Site Runoff Controls
Program Assessment
QTY
Stormwater plans reviewed/submitted for
2
State approval
Stormwater Control Measures approved by
227
the State after July 1, 2007 total inventory
Stormwater Control Measures total inventory
792
on Ft Bragg
Stormwater Control Measures added
6
Stormwater Control Measures inspections.
641
Stormwater Control Measures completed
1052
routine maintenance procedures.

Fort Bragg has installed hundreds of SCMs across the installation designed to reduce
the amount of pollutants found in stormwater. To protect water quality in North Carolina
Rivers, streams, and lakes, and the existing uses of such surface waters for their
scenery, swimming, boating, as well as for commercial and recreational fishing. SCMs
must be routinely inspected and have the necessary maintenance performed on them to
be certain that they continually function as designed.
• During this reporting period, the WMS contracted team conducted 641 SCM
inspections.
Completed over 1200 routine maintenance procedures. These inspections and
maintenance procedures ensure long term operation and a sustainable return on
investment.
F. Pollution Prevention/Good Housekeeping for Municipal Operations
According to Part II, Section G, of the Phase II permit, the objective of the Pollution
Prevention measure is to implement a program that has a training component and has
the ultimate goal of preventing or reducing pollutant runoff. The majority of industrial
activities on Fort Bragg are located in the cantonment area. ECO's and ECA's are
trained in areas of good housekeeping, materials management, spill control, stormwater
management, and wash rack/oil water separator management. Compliance in these
areas is determined by formal inspections performed by the Compliance Assessment
Team. The following activities were completed within this Year's reporting period;
• The Compliance Assessment Team conducted over 1,800 Inspections of all
military units, directorates and contractors that produce hazardous waste (HW)
or Universal Waste (UW) to ensure compliance with applicable Federal, State
and DoD environmental regulations.
• Water Management Section continuously updates GIS Outfall, sampling
locations, and stormwater control measures maps.
• Continued use of OWS systems to capture oil and grease from vehicle and
equipment cleaning. Fort Bragg has an O&M Plan for oil/water separators.
ECOs and ECAs inspect their industrial areas once each month.
• Fort Bragg continues street sweeping activities to remove leaves and debris
from streets/roads, airfields, and parking lots. Also, soldiers sweep outdoors
around barracks in preparation for All American Week.
• Continued to ensure that Fort Bragg personnel are properly trained for pesticide,
herbicide, and fertilizer application according to DOD instruction 4150.07.

Continued the 20 -hr ECO/ECA Training Class providing information on pollution
prevention, spill prevention/response procedures, and good housekeeping
practices. The Compliance Assessment Team trained 889 students in the
ECO/ECA course.
• In addition to the SWMP required activities, Fort Bragg also conducted on-going
activities including collection of refuse, recycling, HHW, electronics, green
waste, and a green building program. These programs all contribute to the goal
of reducing or eliminating the potential pollutants impacting stormwater.
• Fort Braggs Grease Interceptor Consolidation and Management Plan and the
Grease Control Plan minimize discharge of fats, oils and grease into the sanitary
sewer collection system to reduce overflows.
• Stormwater outfall maintenance was conducted in the spring & fall prior to the
accomplishment of the permit required semiannual qualitative monitoring on 101
outfalls. Periodic vegetation, sediment and trash removal maintenance is
required in order to safely access these sites for regulatory monitoring purposes.

G. Monitoring & Evaluation
As required by Part II, Section J of Permit No. NCS000331, the Water Management
Section performed analytical monitoring at 10 stormwater outfall sites in the
cantonment area of Fort Bragg. At Fort Bragg, these sites are vehicle maintenance
area outfall numbers 20/21/76, 39, 53, 71, 76, 84, material handling area outfall
numbers 3, 18/19, 93, fueling area outfall number 61, and Simmons Airfield outfall
number 22. Composite samples are collected at outfalls 20/21/76 and 18/19. The
Phase II permit also requires sampling of two ambient sites at Cross/Creek north of
Texas Pond and Flat Creek/Inverness. Table 1 provided below summarize the
sampling results obtained for the Year 1 reporting period.
Table 1: PHASE II NPDES STORMWATER / RAIN EVENT SUMMARY
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Event
Total
Total
Total
Oil &
Outfall #
Date
Duration
Rainfall
Flow
Suspended
Grease
PH
(min)
(in)
(MG)
Solids()
(mg/1)
(mg/1)
3
2/15/17
240
.7
.0149
17.2
<5.0
7.4
18/19
4/12/16
1020
.7
.1534
3.8
<5.0
6.1
20/21/76
4/12/16
1020
.7
.0213
2.2
<5.0
6.2
22
4/12/16
1020
.7
.4082
12.8
<5.0
6.3
39
2/15/17
240
.7
.4987
19.6
<5.0
7.2
53
9/02/16
45
3.0
.0743
1.3
<5.0
8.2
61
2/15/17
240
.7
.0151
22.8
9.9
7.6
71
9/02/16
45
3.0
.1077
8.2
<5.0
7.4
84
9/02/16
45
3.0
.1584
13.4
<5.0
7.4
93
4/12/16
1020
.7
.4801
3.6
<5.0
6.8
Ambient
Monitoring
2/15/17
N/R
N/R
N/R
2.2
5.45
4.9
Flat Creek
Ambient
Monitoring
2/15/17
N/R
N/R
N/R
3.6
<5.0
4.9
Cross
Creek
Cut-off Concentration
Parameter
O&G Oil and Grease
30 mg/I
pH (do not take average, use most recent pH sample
6-9 standard units
result)
TSS
100 mg/I
N/R
not required

III. Proposed Program Changes/Updates
1. Update and revise Stormwater Management Plan in accordance with new permit
requirements effective April 1, 2016, amended 6, July 2016.
2. Update and revise the Installation's Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan
(SWPPP).