1808T-TRANSFER_INSP_20171130

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: Catawba
Closed
MSWLF HHW White
goods Incin T&P FIRM PERMIT NO.: 1808T-TRANSFER-
CDLF Tire T&P / Collection Tire Monofill Industrial Landfill DEMO SDTF FILE TYPE: COMPLIANCE
Date of Site Inspection: November 30, 2017 Date of Last Inspection: October 6, 2016
FACILITY NAME AND ADDRESS:
City of Hickory Transfer Station
1050 1st Avenue Southwest
Hickory, North Carolina 28601
GPS COORDINATES: N: 35.73126 W: 81.35588
FACILITY CONTACT NAME AND PHONE NUMBER:
Name: Andrew Ballentine, Solid Waste Manager
Telephone: [phone]
Email address: [e-mail]
FACILITY CONTACT ADDRESS:
Post Office Box 398
Hickory, North Carolina 28603
PARTICIPANTS:
Louis Berry, Solid Waste Supervisor – City of Hickory
Charles Gerstell, NCDEQ – Solid Waste Section
STATUS OF PERMIT:
A Permit to Operate 1808T-TRANSFER-, City of Hickory Transfer Station was issued to the City of Hickory on
February 22, 2016. The permit shall expire February 19, 2020.
PURPOSE OF SITE VISIT:
Comprehensive Inspection
STATUS OF PAST NOTED VIOLATIONS:
General Permit Condition No. 3 states: “The permit shall not be effective until the certified copy of this permit which
shows current ownership and references legal descriptions for all land within the solid waste management facility
boundary is recorded in the Register of Deeds office and indexed in the grantor index under the name of the owner of
the land in the county or counties in which the land is located. The certified copy of the permit affixed with the
Register’s seal and the date, book, and page number of recording must be returned to the Section within 30 calendar
days of issuance of this permit. If the Section does not receive the certified copy of the recorded permit within 30
calendar days of issuance of the permit, then and in that event, the permit is suspended and of no effect until the date the
Section receives the certified copy of the recorded permit.”
The Solid Waste Section provided the City of Hickory a certified copy of the Permit to Operate for recordation by letter
signed by Larry Frost, Engineering Project Manager, and dated February 22, 2016. At the time of the previous
inspection, a certified copy of the permit had not been submitted to the Solid Waste Section as required. Therefore, the
City of Hickory was found in violation of General Permit Condition No. 3.
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Division of Waste Management
Solid Waste Section
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To achieve compliance, the City of Hickory was required to provide proof that a certified copy of the permit had been
previously recorded, or a certified copy of the Permit to Operate affixed with the Register’s seal and the date, book, and
page number of recording would need to be submitted to the Solid Waste Section.
The Permit to Operate was recorded with the Catawba County Register of Deeds on February 6, 2017. Therefore, this
violation is considered resolved. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
OBSERVED VIOLATIONS:
None
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
1. The facility consists of a Municipal Solid Waste Transfer Facility having a service area of the City of Hickory
only.
2. The Permit and Operation Plan were verified. Both documents were current and available upon request.
3. Tonnage records for January – November 2017 were submitted by electronic correspondence on December 6,
2017. The facility received a total of 22,336.32-tons during that time.
4. Waste screening reports were verified for January 2017 to present. Screenings appeared to have been performed
with adequate frequency, and provided good documentation of observed unacceptable waste streams and final
disposition of those wastes.
5. Transfer Station Operations Specialist Certifications:
x Ronald Lewis Berry, II (expires 2/22/20)
x Leopold A. Bodden (expires 9/15/19)
x Randall S. Cline (expires 4/3/18)
x Justin Zane Gross (expires 4/3/18)
x Michael A. Pisani (expires 9/15/19)
6. Gates were provided at the entrances to the facility to prevent unauthorized access.
7. The facility had proper signage.
8. Waste is offloaded into hoppers by city vehicles. As waste is offloaded, transfer station attendants view the waste
being deposited into the hoppers through one of two windows in the operator room.
9. The tipping floor of the facility was well managed and free of residues.
10. No unacceptable waste streams were observed.
11. Leachate drains located within the floor of the facility were free of obstructions and appeared operational.
12. Windblown waste was well managed at the time of inspection.
13. Bait boxes were provided around the perimeter of the building to control vectors.
14. Exterior drains within the paved and concrete portions on the south side of the facility deposit into the sanitary
sewer system. The drains appeared to operational at the time of inspection.
15. At the time of the inspection, city staff members were cleaning waste trucks out on the south side of the facility
within the area that drains directly into the sanitary sewer system. Any solid waste deposited onto the ground is
placed into a dumpster or roll-out cans which are then deposited into the transfer station hoppers at the end of the
day.
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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Division of Waste Management
Solid Waste Section
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Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns regarding this inspection report.
___________________________________________ Phone: [phone]
Charles T. Gerstell
Environmental Senior Specialist
Regional Representative
Sent on: 12/7/17 X Email Hand delivery US Mail Certified No. [ _]
Copies: Deb Aja, Western District Supervisor - Solid Waste Section
Digitally signed by Charles T. Gerstell
DN: cn=Charles T. Gerstell, o=Divsion of Waste
Management, ou=Solid Waste Section,
email=[e-mail], c=US
Date: 2017.12.07 08:53:04 -05'00'