NCG551323_Compliance Evaluation Inspection_20180723

ROY COOPER
Governor
MICHAEL S. REGAN
Sec! etmv
LINDA CULPEPPER
Intemn Director
July 23, 2018
Marc E. Johnston
2412 Hardwood Lane
Hillsborough, NC 27278
Subject: Compliance Evaluation Inspection
Single Family Wastewater Treatment System
Residence at 604 Lakeview Rd., Durham, NC 27712
Permit No. NCG551323
Durham County
Dear Mr. Johnston:
The subject residence is served by a discharging sandfilter waste treatment system. This type of system is
permitted by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ). NCDEQ records indicate
Cilbestre Abiles is the owner however; Durham tax records list you as the owner of the subject property.
Please fall out the attached Name Ownership Change form and mail it to the address listed on the
back of page 2 of the form within 30 days of receipt of this letter.
On July 16, 2018, Mitch Hayes from the Raleigh Regional Office visited the subject residence 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.
❑ 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 30 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 clays 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.
Division of Water Resources, Raleigh Regional Office, water Quality Operations Section littp //portal.ncdetit.org/web!wd/aps
1628 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1628 Phone. [phone]
Location: 3800 Barrett Drive, Raleigh, NC 27609 Fax: [phone]
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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 statingyourplan 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.
Faniure to analyze the effluent: The effluent tl-at is discliarged-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.
® Location of the discharge point is unknown: Determine this and report to this office within
30 days of receipt of this letter with a sketch or map.
® Other: Please clear out tall vegetation to expose discharge point.
If you have questions or comments about this inspection or the requirements to take corrective action, please
contact Mitch Hayes 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 tli Yellow' Pages
under Environmental Consultants. /
Sincerely,
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S. Daniel Smith, Regional Supervisor
Water Quality Regional Operations Section
Raleigh Regional Office
cc: RRO/SWP Files
Charles Weaver, NPDES Permitting Unit
Attachments
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