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FACILITY COMPLIANCE INSPECTION REPORT
Division of Waste Management
Solid Waste Section

UNIT TYPE:
Lined
MSWLF LCID
T&P YW Transfer X Compost SLAS COUNTY: Carteret
Closed
MSWLF HHW White
oods Incin T&P FIRM PERMIT NO.: 1604-TRANSFER-1993
CDLF Tire T&P /
Collection Tire
Monofill Industrial
Landfill DEMO SDTF FILE TYPE: COMPLIANCE

Date of Inspection: 5 June 2024 Date of Last Inspection: 15 February 2024

FACILITY NAME AND ADDRESS:
Carteret County/Coastal Environmental Partnership Solid Waste Transfer Facility
800 Hibbs Road
Newport, NC 28570

GPS COORDINATES: N: 34.76253 E: -076.88914

FACILITY CONTACT NAME AND PHONE NUMBER:
Bobby Darden; Executive Director
Coastal Environmental Partnership
252.633.1564

FACILITY CONTACT ADDRESS:
Coastal Environmental Partnership
PO Box 128
Cove City, NC 28523
Attn: Bobby Darden
E-mail: [e-mail]

PARTICIPANTS:
Bobby Darden; Coastal Environmental Partnership
Ray Williams; NCDEQ-Solid Waste

STATUS OF PERMIT:
Active; Life of Site Permit to Operate (PTO) issued 26 February 2019. This permit shall expire 7 October 2053.
Pursuant to NCGS 130A-295.8, the permitee must submit a permit application for any change to the approved
engineering plans or for a substantial amendment to the permit. An application for a permit must be prepared in
accordance with all applicable statutes and rules in effect on that date.

PURPOSE OF SITE VISIT:
Partial facility compliance inspection without records review in response to a self-reported fire incident.

STATUS OF PAST NOTED VIOLATIONS:
None applicable

OBSERVED VIOLATIONS:
1) 15A NCAC 13B .0104 (a) states “The owner or occupant of any property, except that exempted as
specified in Rule .0103(c) of this Subchapter shall be responsible for the sanitary storage of all solid
waste accumulated on the property.”
2) 15A NCAC 13B .0104 (d) states “All solid waste shall be stored using safe and sanitary practices
for the preservation of the public health and welfare and the environment that prevents the
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generation of leachate, the attraction of vectors, the release of odors, and the release of waste or
leachate to the environment.”
3) 15A NCAC 13B .0402 (a) states “The owner or operator of a transfer station (site) shall comply with
the conditions of the permit issued by the Division. In the event of noncompliance with the permit, the
owner or operator shall minimize the release of waste, leachate, or contaminants to the environment,
and shall prevent adverse impacts to human health or the environment.”
4) 15A NCAC 13B .0405 (a) states “The owner or operator of a transfer station (site) shall maintain
and operate the site in accordance with the operations plan incorporated into the permit by Rule
.0404(d) of this Section…”
5) 15A NCAC 13B .0405 (a) (11) states “Site Cleaning and Maintenance: Unless otherwise stated in
the site permit, all waste shall be removed from the tipping floor, the truck loading bays, and from
behind push walls by the end of each day of operation and disposed of in accordance with this
Subchapter. The tipping floor, push walls, and truck loading bays shall be cleaned with a pressure
washer no less than once per month. The remaining areas of the site building including side walls
and any material storage areas outside of the building shall be cleaned with a pressure washer no
less than twice per year. Wash water generated from cleaning waste handling areas shall be
contained and treated as leachate. Cleaning and maintenance records shall be maintained and made
available to the Division upon written request.”
Please see the ADDITIONAL COMMENTS section below for details concerning this inspection.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:
1) This is a Solid Waste Transfer Facility and is permitted to receive Solid Waste as defined in NCGS 130A-
290(a)(35).
2) Hazardous waste, yard trash, liquid wastes, regulated medical waste, sharps not properly packaged, regulated
asbestos containing material as defined in 40 CFR 61, PCB waste as defined in 40 CFR 761, infectious waste,
animal carcasses, radioactive waste, septage, fluorescent and high-intensity discharged lamps,
ashes/incinerated residues, and wastes banned from disposal in North Carolina by NCGS 130A-309.10(f) are
prohibited from being accepted at this Facility.
3) This facility is permitted to receive Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), Construction & Demolition Waste
(C&D), Scrap Tires, and Yard Waste generated in Carteret, Craven, and Pamlico Counties.
4) All waste, with the exception of scrap tires, which are hauled directly to Central Carolina Tire, permit #43-04
in Cameron NC, is transported to the Coastal Environmental Partnership Subtitle-D Landfill, permit #25-09 in
Tuscarora, Craven County, NC.
5) Proper signage including the facility permit number, accepted waste types, banned or excluded items, hours of
operation, and the emergency contact number is posted at the facility entrance.
6) The hours of operation are Monday through Friday 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM and Saturday 7:30 AM to 12:00 PM.
7) The facility is secured by means of a locked gate at the facility entrance. The gates was open upon my arrival
and facility personnel were on site during this inspection, however, the facility was closed to the public and
no waste acceptance or transfer activities occurred while I was present on site.
8) The facility access road is of all-weather construction and is being maintained in overall good condition.
9) MSW and C&D were left on their respective tipping floors overnight. Upon arrival to open the facility,
facility personnel discovered the MSW left inside the transfer station was burning. Local fire and EMS were
contacted and resources requested to fight the fire. Equipment was used to spread the material while it was
being wet down to extinguish the fire. The fire appeared to have been extinguished prior to my arrival and no
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 ma be necessar to achieve com liance with the North Carolina Solid Waste Mana ement Act and Rules.
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fire crews/equipment were onsite during this inspection.
10) *Moving forward, please ensure that all waste brought on-site is loaded into the transfer trailers in a timely
manner and all incoming waste is removed from the facility daily.
11) Portions of the facility walls were damaged by the fire and/or by equipment used in firefighting activities.
*Please ensure an inspection of the structure is completed by an engineer trained to certify the structural
integrity of the facility before returning to normal operations.
12) Compost staged on-site was used to prevent leachate generating during the firefighting operations from
migrating outside the leachate collection area. Compost was placed across the entrance and exit of the trailer
loading bay an along the entrance and exit of the concrete turnaround to prevent runoff. *All compost used for
leachate management must be disposed as solid waste.

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13) *Corrective measures are required as a result of this facility compliance inspection report.

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

Ray Williams; Environmental Senior Specialist Phone: [phone] E-mail: [e-mail]

Regional Representative

Delivered on: 11 June 2024 by X Electronic delivery US Mail X Certified No. [7022 1670 0000 9974
8150]
cc: Jason Watkins; Section Chief/SWS: [e-mail]
Andrew Hammonds; Field Operations Branch Head/SWS: [e-mail]
Chris Hollinger; Environmental Program Consultant/SWS: [e-mail]

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