1910_Brickhaven_AerosolTrial_27564_20170404

ROY COOPER
Governor

MICHAEL S. REGAN
Secretary
MICHAEL SCOTT
Director

State of North Carolina | Environmental Quality | Waste Management
217 West Jones Street | 1646 Mail Service Center | Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1646
919 707 8200

April 4, 2017

Norman Divers, Engineering and Environmental Director
Charah, Inc.
12601 Plantside Drive
Louisville, Kentucky 40299

Subject: Aerosolization Field Trial Implementation Proposal
Permit No. 1910-STRUC-2015, Brickhaven No. 2
Chatham County, DIN 27564

Dear Mr. Divers:
On March 8, 2017, the Division of Waste Management, Solid Waste Section (Section) received Charah’s
leachate aerosolization field trial request entitled:
Field Trial Implementation Proposal. Brickhaven Structural Fill Facility; Leachate Aerosolization System
Evaluation. Moncure, North Carolina. March 3, 2017. DIN 27580.
The Section has reviewed the plan and approves its implementation as written and subject to the following
conditions.

General
1. Facility must comply with all federal, state and local ordinances.
2. Leachate must be applied in a manner that does not threaten public health or the environment.
3. It is the Facility’s responsibility to ensure leachate and its constituents do not contaminate groundwater,
surface water, and off liner soils.
Operation
1. Leachate must be applied on areas of the structural fill that are lined.
2. There may be no runoff of leachate from sprayed areas.
3. Leachate must not be applied on standing water.
4. Leachate must not be applied in a manner that causes it to be applied on unlined areas of the facility. No over
spray.
5. Leachate application is not allowed during or immediately after precipitation events.
6. The area being sprayed must be monitored to prevent over application and runoff.
7. Leachate application is not allowed in areas where leachate seeps are evident.
8. An Application Log must be maintained for leachate application. At a minimum the following information
must be maintained for each application – date, time, application duration, gallons applied, weather conditions.
Contingency
In the event leachate leaves the lined area of the fill (spill, over spray, and/or runoff) or evidence of the contamination
of ground water, surface waste or off liner soils is discovered; the facility will be expected to;
1. Cease application of leachate and report the issues to the Section immediately.
2. Perform soil sampling in affected areas, with prior Section approval. Soil type, soil infiltration rate, amount of
organic matter, soil solution conductivity, Appendix I metals, nitrogen, ammonia, chloride, and pH need to be
determined. This will also determine any potential impacts to groundwater and surface water within a soil
column.
3. Possibly remove contaminated soils.
4. Take all other steps necessary to contain and prevent further contamination.
5. Update the Monitoring Plans
a. Update its Water Quality Monitoring Plan, with prior Section approval, to include;
i. Increased sampling ground water monitoring wells and surface water monitoring sites,
frequency.
ii. Additional monitoring for ammonia, nitrogen, chlorides, and metals.
iii. The possible addition of ground water of monitoring wells.
iv. The possible addition of surface water monitoring sites.

Please notify the Section before spray testing begins so that we may make periodic visits during the trial period.
At the conclusion of the trial period a final report is to be submitted to the section. A permit amendment will be made
if spraying is to continue at the facility.

Should you have any questions you may contact Shannon Aufman at (919)-707-8238 or [e-mail].
We look forward to the trial and the information that will be provided for the technology.

Sincerely,

Ed Mussler, Permitting Branch Supervisor
Solid Waste Section
Division of Waste Management

Cc: Ellen Lorscheider, DWM
Shawn McKee, DWM
Shannon Aufman, DWM