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FACILITY COMPLIANCE INSPECTION REPORT
Division of Waste Management
Solid Waste Section

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UNIT TYPE:
Lined MSWLF X LCID YW Transfer Compost SLAS COUNTY: Guilford
Closed MSWLF HHW White goods Incin T&P X FIRM PERMIT NO.: 41-04
CDLF Tire T&P / Collection Tire Monofill Industrial Landfill DEMO SDTF FILE TYPE: COMPLIANCE

Date of Site Inspection: March 22, 2022 Date of Last Inspection: September 14, 2022
FACILITY NAME AND ADDRESS:
City of High Point Kersey Valley MSW Landfill 3940 E. Kivett Drive
High Point, NC 27261 GPS COORDINATES: Lat.: 35.95416 Long.: -79.93094 FACILITY CONTACT NAME AND PHONE NUMBER:
Mike Spencer, Solid Waste Disposal Superintendent – City of High Point w. 336-883-3433 c. 336-688-3454 [e-mail]
FACILITY CONTACT ADDRESS:
City of High Point Mike Spencer, Solid Waste Disposal Superintendent P.O. Box 230
High Point, NC 27261
PARTICIPANTS: Chuck Kirchner, Environmental Senior Specialist – Solid Waste Section (SWS) Mike Spencer, Solid Waste Disposal Superintendent – City of High Point
STATUS OF PERMIT:
Permit to Operate (PTO) issued September 28, 2016 Life of Site Permit (Per FID 1616174) PURPOSE OF SITE VISIT: Comprehensive Inspection
STATUS OF PAST NOTED VIOLATIONS: None
OBSERVED VIOLATIONS:
None

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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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
On March 23, 2023, Chuck Kirchner met with Mike Spencer to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the Kersey
Valley MSW Landfill located off E. Kivett Road in High Point, Guilford County. Facility Information
1. The municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill is located on property owned by the City of High Point. The property also contains a treatment and processing (T&P) operation, a convenience center, and a temporary debris storage and reduction site (TDSR). 2. The landfill is in operation Monday through Friday 7:30 am to 4:30 pm. The convenience center near the entrance is open on Saturday from 7:00 am to 1:00 pm.
3. The MSW landfill consists of two lined fill areas: Area 1, Phases 1 – 3A and Area 2, Phases 4 and 5A and 5B. 4. The MSW landfill Area 1 is inactive. It is capped. A partial closure letter, dated December 19, 2016, was issued by the SWS for approximately 23.8 acres (of the approximately 39.1-acre area).
5. The August 22, 2022 permit is an Approval to Construct (PTC) Area 3, Phases 6-8 and Phases 9-10 which are the vertical expansion over Areas 1, 2 & 3. This permit is also a Permit to Operate (PTO) Areas 1 & 2, Phases 1-5. 6. Kersey Valley Landfill has a preconstruction meeting at the landfill facility scheduled for March 28, 2023. 7. Pre-operational conditions as defined in Permit Condition, Attachment II, Part II, Number 6 must be met prior to receiving wastes at the newly constructed phases, cells, or sub-cells of any landfill unit. 8. In the future, the facility plans to reroute a portion of Kersey Valley Road that runs between landfill Areas 1 and 2 and adjoin the landfill areas. The landfill area between the two phases will be Phase 5C.
9. The facility address for landfill Area 1 is 3854 E. Kivett Drive, High Point. 10. The facility address for landfill Area 2 is 3940 E. Kivett Drive, High Point. 11. The facility does not accept scrap tires.
12. White goods are placed in a roll-off container at the convenience center. The white goods are managed by the City of High Point Material Recovery Facility (MRF) and are hauled off once a week. 13. The facility has installed a landfill gas extraction network in Area 1 for expected future use. Landfill gas
extraction wellheads have not been installed and a landfill gas collection station has not been constructed. 14. The facility has installed four candlestick flares atop Area 1. The flares are used for the combustion of passive landfill gas. The flares automatically ignite when needed. If the flares malfunction, landfill gas will vent via the unfinished landfill gas extraction wellhead caps. The wellhead caps are designed to pop off to vent landfill gas. Records Review
15. The facility site plan, permit, and operations plan were discussed.
16. The following are certified personnel:
a. Michael Spencer, Manager of Landfill Operations, No. 905194, exp. 06/07/25 b. Charles Scearce, Certified Landfill Operations Specialist, No. LF-2015020, exp. 03/24/24 c. Terry Kinney, Certified Landfill Operations Specialist, No. 2019025, exp. 4/16/25
d. Brian Craft, NC Certified Landfill Operator, Cert. No. 18-020-00398, Exp. 11/1/24 e. Ethan Mode, NC Certified Landfill Operator, Cert. No. 18-020-00398, Exp. 11/1/24
17. The facility is permitted to receive solid waste from Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, and Randolph Counties. 18. The facility maintains records of the amount of solid waste received. The amount of solid waste received
from June 21, 2022 through March 22, 2023 is 94,254.14 tons. 19. The facility annual report (FAR) was received by the SWS dated July 1, 2022. Facility throughput for July 2021 through June 2022 is 125,669.16 tons of which 138.57 tons were recovered.
20. The facility maintains two waste screening reports. One is for the convenience center located near the scale house and the other is for the MSW landfill. At least one vehicle per week but not less than one percent by weight of the waste stream shall be screened. Records for November 22, 2021 through
January 31, 2023 were observed for the convenience center and January 19, 2021 through March 23, 2023 were observed for the landfill.
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21. The facility maintains semiannual groundwater and surface water monitoring and leachate test records submitted by Babb & Associates, P.A., analyzed by Environmental Conservation Laboratories, Inc. (ENCO). Records for groundwater, surface water monitoring and leachate testing conducted on June 8-9, 2022 and October 25-26, 2022 were observed. An exceedance is noted for each event.
22. The facility maintains quarterly methane monitoring records. Monitoring is conducted by Smith+Gardner, Inc. Records for methane monitoring conducted February 16, 2022 (1st quarter), June 16, 2022 (2nd quarter), September 19, 2022 (3rd quarter) and December 14, 2022 (4th quarter) were observed. Monitoring results do not indicate an exceedance of the methane lower explosive limit (LEL). 23. A Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report was done on the landfill by Smith+Gardner in March 2022. 24. The facility has a stormwater National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit, General Permit No. NCG120000. The NPDES permit was issued November 1, 2018 and will expire on June 30, 2026. 25. The facility maintains a 2021 Title V Annual Compliance Certification Air Permit, Permit Number
10517T01, Facility ID 4101253. Compliance certifications are performed annually. 26. The facility has three open erosion and sedimentation control plans with NCDEMLR. GUILF-2000-008 certificate of approval for CHP Kersey Valley MSW Landfill Phase 3 and GUILF-2010-050 certificate of
approval for CHP Kersey Valley Landfill – Phase I. Permit number GUILF-2023-005 has recently been added for Phase 6 construction which is scheduled to start soon. There is a potential delay on getting parts which may delay the start of construction according to Mr. Spencer.
27. The leachate collection lines are required to be flushed and camera inspected once every five years. The leachate collection lines were flushed and camera inspected by Jetclean America in February of 2022
(Phases 1 and 2, 3 and 4). Leachate lines are camera inspected annually according to Mr. Spencer. Site Inspection
28. The facility is operating in Area 2, Phase 5B. 29. The facility is permitted to use tarps. Three tarps are commonly used to cover the working face Monday through Thursday and soil cover is used on Friday according to Mr. Spencer.
30. Some exposed waste near the working face observed. This may be from the day’s activities. Any exposed waste shall be covered at the end of each working day with a minimum six inches of earthen material or approved alternative daily cover as required in 15A NCAC 13B .1626(2) to
control disease vectors, fires, odors, blowing litter, and scavenging. 31. The working face was small and compact. 32. No unauthorized waste was observed in the working face. 33. Some plastic bags were observed in the trees around the landfill. The bags appear to have been from the day’s activities. At the conclusion of each operating day, all windblown material resulting from the operation shall be collected and disposed of by the owner or operator. 34. The facility has a leachate pump station that is connected to a pump station located on the south side of the landfill, east of Kersey Valley Road. The municipal sewer system collects leachate from Areas 1 and 2. 35. The facility has a 340,000-gallon leachate storage tank with secondary containment that is no longer used. 36. Phase I has a temporary cap. No eroded rills and a good grass cover were noted in this area. Continue to
maintain this area as needed. 37. The facility has white edge of waste markers along Areas 1 and 2.
38. During the inspection, no odor off site was detected. 39. Many inactive areas around the landfill were observed to have a good grass cover. 40. A convenience center is located near the scale house for residents to drop off waste. Heavy traffic observed this inspection. Traffic appeared to be managed in an orderly manner and minimal waste was observed outside of the containers in this area. 41. Facility staff observed collecting windblown litter during this inspection.

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General Comments
42. The facility has a wood waste treatment and processing (T&P) operation. Land clearing debris, high carbon to nitrogen ratio material, pallets, treated wood, lumber scraps, engineered wood, and furniture manufacturing waste is ground for use only on the landfill working face access road in lined areas during inclement weather.
43. When the woody material is ground, it is directly off-loaded into roll-off containers or dump trucks and brought to the landfill operations area. Ground treated and engineered wood shall not be stored on the ground outside of the lined landfill and leachate control areas. 44. Good fire access buffers were observed around the T&P stockpile material this inspection. 45. The area allotted for the wood waste T&P operation is ~ 2 acres. The area is also designated as a temporary debris storage and reduction site (TDSR), number DS41-004. 46. The City of High Point Fire Department can be contacted to respond to an emergency at the landfill. 47. Access roads are of all-weather construction.
48. The facility has proper signage. 49. The facility entrance is secured by a locked gate. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns regarding this inspection report.
________________________________________ Phone: [phone] _ Chuck Kirchner Environmental Senior Specialist
Regional Representative
Sent on: March 24, 2023 X Email Hand delivery US Mail Certified No. [ _]
Copies: Deb Aja, Western District Supervisor - Solid Waste Section Melinda King, Assistant Public Services Director – City of High Point, [e-mail]