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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.: 41-22
CDLF Tire T&P / Collection Tire Monofill Industrial Landfill DEMO SDTF FILE TYPE: COMPLIANCE

Date of Site Inspection: May 7, 2018 Date of Last Inspection: April 25, 2018

FACILITY NAME AND ADDRESS:
WI Burnt Poplar Transfer, LLC – Burnt Poplar Transfer Station
6313 Burnt Poplar Road
Greensboro, NC 27409

GPS COORDINATES:
N: 36.07157 W: -79.92496

FACILITY CONTACT NAME AND PHONE NUMBER:
Seth Heath, General Manager – Waste Industries USA, Inc.
w. 336-668-3712
c. 336-870-4171
[e-mail]

FACILITY CONTACT ADDRESS:
WI High Point Landfill, LLC
Seth Heath, General Manager
5830 Riverdale Drive
Jamestown, NC 27282

PARTICIPANTS:
John Patrone, Environmental Senior Specialist - Solid Waste Section (SWS)
Seth Heath, General Manager – Waste Industries USA, Inc.

STATUS OF PERMIT:
Permit To Operate (PTO) issued December 9, 2016
PTO expiration date: Life-of-Site

PURPOSE OF SITE VISIT:
Partial 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 May 7, 2018, John Patrone conducted a partial inspection of the WI Burnt Poplar Transfer, LLC – Burnt Poplar
Transfer Station located on Burnt Poplar Road in Greensboro, Guilford County.

1. The facility is a permitted municipal solid waste (MSW) and construction and demolition debris (C&D) transfer
station with recyclable and recovered materials operations.
2. The facility is owned by Waste Industries USA, Inc.
3. Custom Ecology, Inc. (CEI) operates the transfer station and hauls MSW to the disposal facility.
4. The scale house is operated by Waste Industries USA, Inc. personnel.
5. All material received is MSW (currently, C&D is not considered a separate waste stream). The recyclable and
recovered materials operations have not operated to date.
6. Concrete crushing is permissible at the facility. The concrete crushing operation has not operated to date.
7. Material shredding or grinding is not permissible at the facility.
8. The repair to the tipping floor was observed during the inspection.
9. Mr. Heath stated that the tipping floor repair occurred over the previous weekend (Friday through Sunday, May
4th – 6th).
10. The area of the tipping floor that was repaired is located at the left rear of the building and is ~ 25’ x 12’.
11. Mr. Heath stated that he will provide the following documentation to the SWS: design characteristics of the
tipping floor primary layer, concrete repair shear fracture test results (if able to acquire), digital pictures
documenting the tipping floor repair process, explanation as to why the sacrificial layer of the tipping floor may
have cracked/came apart within less than two years, a statement that MSW fines will be routinely removed from
the leachate rectangular drain holes located in the push wall.
12. Mr. Heath stated that the facility does not intend to install a rubber push-pad under the front end loader bucket.
Company personnel feel that the steel belts woven into the rubber of the push-pad will accelerate deterioration of
the concrete tipping floor.
13. Mr. Patrone and Mr. Heath agreed that the front end loader bucket shall be maintained such that it efficiently
manages leachate on the tipping floor and concrete apron/approach pad. Necessary repair to the front end loader
bucket shall be undertaken. Site personnel shall be reminded to continually scrape/clean the tipping floor and
concrete apron/approach pad and to ensure that MSW caught on the front end loader is removed by the end of
each workday.
14. 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.”
15. Ensure the front end loader is routinely cleaned such that it is free of dirt and filth.
16. Leachate from the facility flows through two particulate settling tanks then into a collection tank. The leachate
collection tank discharges to the City of Greensboro sanitary sewer.

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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Division of Waste Management
Solid Waste Section

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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: May 7, 2018 X Email Hand delivery US Mail Certified No. [ _]
Copies: Jason Watkins, Field Operations Branch Head - SWS
Deb Aja, Western District Supervisor – SWS
Ming-Tai Chao, Environmental Engineer – SWS
Catherine Hernandez, Operations Supervisor - Waste Industries USA, Inc.
(c. 336-706-0763 [e-mail])

Digital pictures taken on May 7, 2018
by John Patrone, DWM-SWS

Transfer station tipping floor – repaired area of tipping floor