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FACILITY COMPLIANCE INSPECTION REPORT
Division of Waste Management
Solid Waste Section

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UNIT TYPE:
Lined
MSWLF LCID YW Transfer X Compost SLAS COUNTY: Guilford
Closed
MSWLF HHW White
goods Incin T&P FIRM PERMIT NO.: 41-20
CDLF Tire T&P / Collection Tire Monofill Industrial Landfill DEMO SDTF FILE TYPE: COMPLIANCE

Date of Site Inspection: April 25, 2018 Date of Last Inspection: April 6, 2017

FACILITY NAME AND ADDRESS:
City of Greensboro Transfer Station
6310 Burnt Poplar Road
Greensboro, NC 27409

GPS COORDINATES:
N: 36.07400 W: -79.92108

FACILITY CONTACT NAME AND PHONE NUMBER:
Mark Hennis, Transfer Station Operations Supervisor - City of Greensboro Field Operations Department
w. 336-373-3864
c. 336-944-4743
[e-mail]

FACILITY CONTACT ADDRESS:
City of Greensboro Field Operations Department
Jason Jernigan, Solid Waste Disposal Manager
2503 White Street
Greensboro, NC 27405

PARTICIPANTS:
John Patrone, Environmental Senior Specialist - Solid Waste Section (SWS)
Mark Hennis, Transfer Station Operations Supervisor - City of Greensboro Field Operations Department

STATUS OF PERMIT:
Permit To Operate (PTO) issued November 28, 2016
PTO expiration date: Life-of-Site

PURPOSE OF SITE VISIT:
Comprehensive Inspection

STATUS OF PAST NOTED VIOLATIONS:
None

OBSERVED VIOLATIONS:
None

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Division of Waste Management
Solid Waste Section

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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
On April 25, 2018, John Patrone met with Mark Hennis to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the City of Greensboro
Transfer Station on Burnt Poplar Road in Greensboro, Guilford County.

1. The facility is a municipal solid waste (MSW) transfer station owned by the City of Greensboro.
2. The facility is operated by City of Greensboro personnel.
3. Custom Ecology, Inc. (CEI) hauls MSW from the transfer station to the disposal facility.
4. The facility is open Monday through Friday 6:00 am to 6:00 pm and Saturday 7:00 am to 1:00 pm.
5. The facility permit, site plan, and operations plan were discussed.
6. The facility receives solid waste generated in Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Guilford,
Montgomery, Randolph, Rockingham, and Stokes Counties.
7. The following are facility certified Transfer Station Operations Specialist personnel:
a. Mark Hennis, certification number TS-2018003, exp. 02/23/21
b. Richard Johnson, certification number TS-200310, exp. 12/15/18
c. Gregory Winstead, certification number TS-2006097, exp. 12/08/18
d. Gregory Jordan, certification number TS-2015032, exp. 03/25/21
e. Marvin Smith, certification number TS-2006092, exp. 12/08/18
f. Otis Summers, certification number TS-2015037, exp. 03/25/21
g. Jerry Pegram, certification number TS-2006090, exp. 12/08/18
h. E. Ray Davis, certification number TS-2009146, exp. 07/16/21
i. Timothy Brown, certification number TS-2006064, exp. 11/17/18
j. Eric Rodgers, certification number TS-2018004, exp. 02/24/21.
8. Mr. Hennis stated that vehicle scale tests were conducted by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture &
Consumer Services in July 2015.
9. A vehicle scale test was conducted by Carlton Scale on April 4, 2018 for all facility scales. Mr. Hennis stated
that the four scales (inbound and outbound and the two load out bays) are tested quarterly.
10. The facility maintains records of the amount of MSW received. Records were observed for April 2017 through
March 2018. The facility received an average of ~ 14,000 tons/month.
11. Municipal solid waste is hauled to the Great Oak Landfill (76-07) in Randleman, Randolph County. Per the
facility permit, the facility must haul solid waste to a MSW landfill permitted to accept the waste type and whose
service area includes the origin of the solid waste.
12. If the facility or disposal landfill is not able to accept MSW, the operations plan states that solid waste may be
hauled to the City of Greensboro MSW Landfill – White Street Landfill (41-12) for disposal.
13. The facility annual report (FAR) was received by the SWS dated July 19, 2017. Tonnage received July 2016
through June 2017 is 205,503.59. The MSW was hauled to Great Oak Landfill and Uwharrie Environmental
Regional Landfill.
14. During the inspection, there were two empty transfer trailers on site, one transfer trailer in the load out bay, and
10 tarped full transfer trailers.
15. The transfer trailers appeared to be in good condition. Per 15A NCAC 13B .0105(c)(7), “The vehicle or container
shall be serviced, repaired, and cleaned to maintain sanitary conditions, to preserve the integrity of the door seal,
to prevent the accumulation of mechanical fluids, dirt, and filth on the vehicle's exterior, and to prevent
contamination of the environment by fluids.”
16. Mr. Hennis stated that full transfer trailers are commonly stored on site overnight and on weekends.
17. If leachate leaks from a stored transfer trailer a container shall be placed to capture it.

The item(s) listed above were observed by Section staff and require action on behalf of the facility in order to come into or maintain compliance
with the Statutes, Rules, and/or other regulatory requirements applicable to this facility. Be advised that pursuant to N.C.G.S. 130A-22, an
administrative penalty of up to $15,000 per day may be assessed for each violation of the Solid Waste Laws, Regulations, Conditions of a Permit,
or Order under Article 9 of Chapter 130A of the N.C. General Statutes. Further, the facility and/or all responsible parties may also be subject to
enforcement actions including penalties, injunction from operation of a solid waste management facility or a solid waste collection service and any
such further relief as may be necessary to achieve compliance with the North Carolina Solid Waste Management Act and Rules.
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Solid Waste Section

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18. The facility is required to conduct a waste screening on ~ 1 percent of commercial and industrial loads received.
Records for August 2017, November 2017, and February 2018 were observed.
19. The facility tipping floor appeared to be in good condition.
20. The transfer station building appeared to be in good condition.
21. The facility has two load out bays with hoppers.
22. The facility operates two tamping machines. The tamping machines compact solid waste in the transfer trailers
prior to the trailers being removed from the building.
23. The transfer station building has a tipping floor leachate trench drain that runs along the truck egress bay (trucks
enter through a side bay door, unload onto the tipping floor, and exit through a second [larger] bay door) and
leachate drains located at the entrance and exit of the two load out bays (total of four drains) and along the scale
area of each load out bay.
24. The leachate drains appeared operational.
25. The leachate settling tank/oil-water separator was pumped out by EVO Corporation on March 16, 2018. Mr.
Hennis stated that the leachate settling tank/oil-water separator is pumped out ~ quarterly.
26. Mr. Hennis stated that the facility has Vortex Drain Cleaning Services, Inc. jet clean the leachate lines prior to
servicing by EVO Corporation.
27. Leachate from the facility flows into a settling tank and discharges to the City of Greensboro sanitary sewer.
28. The facility has an off-load area adjoining the tipping floor for resident drop-off. The resident off-load area is an
extension of the building and tipping floor. It is covered and adjacent to the tipping floor leachate trench drain.
29. Windblown material shall be collected by the end of each workday.
30. Mr. Hennis stated that MSW fines that accumulate at the transfer station building ingress/egress areas are routinely
swept/picked up.
31. The facility operations plan states that recyclables may be temporarily managed on up to 50 percent of the tipping
floor if the City’s current recycling collection service is interrupted.
32. The facility does not accept scrap tires or whitegoods.
33. The City of Greensboro Fire Department can be contacted to address an emergency at the facility.
34. Mr. Hennis stated that the transfer station has ~ 26 fire extinguishers, including those in vehicles.
35. The facility is secured by a locked gate. Personnel are on site during operating hours.
36. The facility has signage.
37. Access roads are of all-weather construction.

Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns regarding this inspection report.

Phone: [phone]

John Patrone
Environmental Senior Specialist
Regional Representative

Sent on: April 26, 2018 X Email Hand delivery US Mail Certified No. [ _]

Copies: Deb Aja, Western District Supervisor - SWS
Jason Jernigan, Solid Waste Disposal Manager - City of Greensboro Field Operations Department
(c. 336-587-3445, [e-mail])