3424_CORR_20170627

State of North Carolina | Environmental Quality | Waste Management
Winston-Salem Regional Office | 450 West Hanes Mill Road | Suite 300 | Winston-Salem, NC 27105-9667
336-796-9800

ROY COOPER
Governor

MICHAEL S. REGAN
Secretary

MICHAEL SCOTT
Director

June 27, 2017

Sent via email: [e-mail]

Mr. Randall Baker
Vice President and General Manager
Abbey Green, Inc.
P. O. Box 12339
Winston-Salem, NC 27117
SUBJECT: Abbey Green, Inc. and Overdale Holdings, Inc.
Transfer, Recycle, Resource Recovery and Processing Facility
Permit No. 3424-TRANSFER-2010
Forsyth County

Dear Mr. Baker:

The Solid Waste Section issued a Notice of Violation letter for this facility on March 21, 2017.
Since that time, we have met onsite on April 4, 2017, you have provided six letters of response
(March 23, March 28, April 3, April 21 (2 letters) and June 23, 2017). We also met, at your request,
at the Winston-Salem Regional Office on April 19, 2017 to discuss all of the issues outlined in the
original Notice of Violation that remain unresolved. During that meeting, we agreed to certain
specific corrective actions that Abbey Green, Inc. would be required and responsible to complete
by June 30, 2017. Those actions can be summarized as follows:

1. All material stored on the South Site will be removed and processed or properly disposed
of at a facility permitted to accept it.

2. All leachate (any water that comes into contact with waste) generated at the facility will
be captured and directed to the public sewer system.

3. The Leased Site will be used only for the storage of clean mulch, made exclusively of land
clearing debris and clean lumber. No grinding or processing operations, nor the storage
of engineered wood waste is permitted on the Leased Site at this time. Future operations
on the Leased Site will be addressed during the permit review and set forth in the revised
Operations Manual.

4. A request for permit modification, including a revised Operations Manual, will be
submitted to Ming-Tai Chao, Permit Engineer. The request will provide documentation
and information outlined in the Notice of Violations, dated March 21, 2017, and clarified
in my letter to Abbey Green, Inc., dated May 1, 2017.
Abbey Green, Inc.
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June 27, 2017

State of North Carolina | Environmental Quality | Waste Management
450 West Hanes Mill Road | Suite 300 | Winston-Salem, NC 27105-9667
336-796-9800

Your letter, dated June 23, 2017, submitted to me via email, was not an acceptable response. By
June 30, 2017, Abbey Green, Inc. must either:

1. Comply with all of the requirements listed in numbers 1 through 4 above (as stated in the
Notice of Violation dated March 21, 2017 and further defined in my letter dated May 1,
2017); or,
2. Submit a request for an extension of time in which to come into compliance, including
justification for the additional time being requested and a detailed plan setting forth a
timetable for completion of the required corrective actions.

Please note that failure to comply with these requirements may lead to further tiered
enforcement actions.

If you have any questions, please call me at 336-776-9672 or contact me via email at
[e-mail].

Sincerely,

Susan Heim
Environmental Senior Specialist
Division of Waste Management - Solid Waste Section

copies: Jason Watkins, Field Operations Branch Head – Solid Waste Section
Deb Aja, Western District Supervisor – Solid Waste Section
Jessica Montie, Compliance Officer – Solid Waste Section
Ming-Tai Chao, Permitting Engineer – Solid Waste Section