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Home My WebLink AboutNCG020755_Emails with WiRO RE History_20190625Georgoulias, Bethany From: Georgoulias, Bethany Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 10:26 AM To: Lambe, Brian Cc: Garcia, Lauren V; Morman, Alaina; Sams, Dan Subject: RE: NCG020755 Attachments: NCG020755-Correspondence RE Return of NCG16 App_20160623.pdf; NCG020755 _Emails RE OM Pumping Plan Requirement_20090827.pdf, NCG020755_NOV-2009- DV-0192_20100302.pdf, NCG020755-Original 2010 COC and Renewal_20151209.pdf Brian, See attached for history (I'll put these in Laserfiche) and see my comments below. -----Original Message ----- From: Lambe, Brian Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 9:21 AM To: Georgoulias, Bethany <bethany.georgoulias@ncdenr.gov> Cc: Garcia, Lauren V <lauren.garcia@ncdenr.gov>; Morman, Alaina <alaina.morman@ncdenr.gov>; Sams, Dan <dan.sams@ncdenr.gov> Subject: NCG020755 NCG020755 Morton Mine Jacksonville. This mining discharge permit has an asphalt plant, a trucking company, a LCID permit, and mulching stockpiles outside the LCID. The mine was blown in from hurricane Florence. The mine pit area is being used for stockpiles of used concrete debris, alphalt debris, and other waste materials (plastic). The mine has a condition via DWQ (Shiver) that the wetlands to the east of the site must be monitored and the pit must be discharged to the area to maintain wet conditions. The site has a unmaintained SPPP that has very little detail. No pumping plan is included. No monitoring has occurred on the site since 2013. >>Sounds like they have major compliance issues. Looking at the file history, they were not cooperating very well in developing their original O&M Pumping Plan. See the info attached. 2012 a NOI for NCG160000 was submitted to Central Office. 2015 an email from K Hammers to Morton states that Riddle and Pickle agreed that the asphalt plant could be covered by the mining permit. >>File info from Ken Pickle supports that. It is not the only case where we considered covering a co -located asphalt plant under the NCG02 permit already held by the permittee because the monitoring in NCG16 was adequately covered by parameters in NCG02. That simplified things by not requiring the permittee to obtain another general permit or go through the much longer process of an individual permit because the existing GP requirements were at least as stringent. SPPP was not updated to include BMPs for asphalt plant, or other industrial activities. >>Again, sounds like they have compliance issues. Why is this not under an individual permit? Or have multiple permits? >>See attached info and explanation above. Perhaps that's an avenue to be considered now, though, given the non- compliance. The WiRO will need to advise. I hope that helps shed some light on this one. Bethany Georgoulias Environmental Engineer Stormwater Program, Division of Energy, Mineral, and Land Resources N.C. Department of Environmental Quality 919 707 3641 office bethany.georgoulias@ncdenr.gov 512 N. Salisbury Street, Raleigh, NC 27604 (location) 1612 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1612 (mailing) Website: http://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/energy-mineral-land-resources/stormwater Email correspondence to and from this address is subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.