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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 27, 2021 Date of Last Inspection: February 26, 2020
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 [e-mail]
FACILITY CONTACT ADDRESS:
City of Greensboro Field Operations Department David Deel, Solid Waste Disposal Manager 2503 White Street
Greensboro, NC 27405
PARTICIPANTS: Chuck Kirchner, 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: A. 15A NCAC 13B .0203(d) states: “By receiving solid waste at a permitted facility, the permittee(s) shall be considered to have accepted the conditions of the permit and shall comply with the conditions of the permit.” Permit to Operate – Part I, Number 6 states “Operation of this solid waste management facility shall be in accordance with the North Carolina Solid Waste Management Rules, 15A NCAC 13B; Article 9 of the Chapter 130A of the North Carolina General Statutes (N.C.G.S. 130A-290, et seq.); the conditions contained in this permit; and the approved plan. Should
the approved plan and the rules conflict, the Solid Waste Management Rules shall take precedence unless specifically addressed by permit condition. Failure to comply may result in compliance action or permit revocation.” Permit to Operate - Attachment 3, Part II, Number 8 states “All water that comes in contact with solid waste, including vehicle
wash-down water, is leachate and must be captured and properly treated before release to the environment.” Permit to Operate Operations Plan dated November 28, 2018 (DIN 27044) Section 4.2 states in part “Leaking trailers will
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have drip pans placed beneath the trailer to contain leaks. Leachate, collected in the drip pans, is disposed through the sanitary sewer system.” The City of Greensboro is in violation of 15A NCAC 13B .0203(d) in that leachate was leaking from a transfer trailer onto the ground. There were no drip pans in place to capture the leachate leaking from the transfer trailers. Insufficient drip pans to capture leachate were observed on site.

To resolve this violation any leachate that is observed on site shall be collected in drip pans and disposed through the sanitary sewer system.

Photographs of Trailers 701-T & 706-T taken by Chuck Kirchner during the April 27, 2021 facility inspection.
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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
On April 27, 2021, Chuck Kirchner 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. Hilco Transport, Inc. hauls MSW from the transfer station to the disposal facility. 4. The facility is open Monday through Friday 6:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturday 7:00 am to 1:00 pm. Reduced hours were performed during Covid Pandemic.
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. 02/23/24 b. E. Ray Davis, certification number TS-2009146, exp. 06/16/24
c. Eric Rodgers, certification number TS-2018004, exp. 02/24/24 d. Andrew Picone, certification number TS-2019050, exp. 4/17/2022 e. Donald Kearns, certification number TS-2019046, exp. 4/17/2022
f. John Coldsnow, certification number TS-2019040, exp. 4/17/2022 g. Gregory Winstead, certification number TS-2019074, exp. 08/21/2022 h. Tracy Sidden, certification number TS-2020083, exp. 12/09/2023 i. Kenae Stokes, certification number TS-2020082, exp. 12/09/2023 j. Marvin Smith, certification number TS-2006092, exp. 12/09/2023 k. Sean Young, certification number TS-2015041, exp. 03/25/2024 8. The facility maintains records of the amount of MSW received. Records were observed for January 2021 through March 2021. The facility received 37,121.08 tons or an average of ~ 17,000 tons/month during this period. 9. 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 an MSW landfill permitted to accept the waste type and whose service area includes the origin of the solid waste.
10. 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 with approval from City of Greensboro City Councel and NCDEQ Solid Waste Section.
11. The facility annual report (FAR) was received by the SWS dated July 23, 2020. Tonnage received July 2019 through June 2020 was 207,733.39 tons. The MSW was hauled to Great Oak Landfill. 12. During the inspection, there were three empty transfer trailers on site, one transfer trailer in the open load out bay,
one in line for the load out bay and seven tarped full transfer trailers. Full transfer trailers were being actively hauled off site. 13. Hilco Transport, Inc. had provided new transfer trailers to this facility at the start of the contract with the City of Greensboro in October of 2019. Mr. Hennis stated that Hilco Transport, Inc. had replaced the new transfer trailers with older models in the last year. City of Greensboro is responsible to make sure transfer trailers are properly maintained or removed from service. 14. Transfer trailers are commonly stored on site overnight and on weekends.
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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15. The facility is required to conduct a waste screening on approximately 1 percent of commercial and industrial loads received. Records from January 2020 through March 2021 were observed. 16. The facility tipping floor is starting to show wear. 17. The transfer station building appeared to be in good condition. 18. The facility has two load-out bays. 19. The bay on the north side is currently having the outbound transfer trailer scale replaced. Mr. Hennis stated that
new scales should be able to be lifted using the 320 Backhoe/Tamper and a chain sling. Lifting the scale will enable City of Greensboro to clean out any solids that get under scales. Previously this was very difficult to do according to Mr. Hennis.
Photograph of the North side load out bay taken by Chuck Kirchner during the April 27, 2021 facility inspection.
Photograph of the North side load out bay leachate line taken by Chuck Kirchner during the April 27, 2021 facility inspection.
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20. 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. Only one tamping machine was being used since only one load out bay was open. 21. 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.
22. Positive drainage to the leachate system from the tipping floor is not as obvious from the transfer station floor. Mr. Hennis stated that the City of Greensboro has a plan to add an additional french drain at the
east side door where trucks come in to dump on the tipping floor and is currently looking for contractors for this work. To ensure no leachate can leave the tipping floor area this french drain shall be installed or another means of ensuring positive drainage shall be provided on the east side of the transfer station building. All leachate from the tipping floor shall be directed to the leachate system as discussed in the field. 23. The leachate drains observed appeared operational.
24. The leachate settling tank/oil-water separator was pumped out by EVO Corporation on January 29, 2021. Mr. Hennis stated that the leachate settling tank/oil-water separator is pumped out ~ quarterly or more frequent if needed. 25. There are convenience recycling dumpsters kept by the resident drop off area. A City of Greensboro truck comes out weekly to empty glass dumpsters and daily for every morning for single stream recycling.
26. Leachate from the facility flows into a settling tank and discharges to the City of Greensboro sanitary sewer.
27. 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.
28. Facility grounds were in good condition. Continue to ensure windblown material shall be collected by the end of
each workday.
29. 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. Currently cardboard and glass are being accepted at the transfer station. Two dumpsters for cardboard and two residential recycling cans for glass. 30. The facility does not accept scrap tires or whitegoods. Any scrap tires or white goods are separated they are
picked up by City of Greensboro to Bishop Road Recycling Center. 31. The City of Greensboro Fire Department can be contacted to address an emergency at the facility. 32. The facility is secured by a locked gate. Personnel are on site during operating hours.
33. The facility has signage. 34. Access roads are of all-weather construction. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns regarding this inspection report. ________________________________________ Phone: [phone] _ Chuck Kirchner Environmental Senior Specialist Regional Representative
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Copies: Deb Aja, Western District Supervisor - Solid Waste Section