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June 17, 2019
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
Division of Water Resources
Mooresville Regional Office
Attn:
W. Corey Basinger, Regional Supervisor
Water Quality Operations Section
Division of Water Resources
Mooresville Regional Office
Re:
Notice of Violation & Intent to Assess Civil Penalty(ies)
Tracking Number:
NOV-2019-LV-0332
NOV-2019-LV-0397
Long Creek WWTP
Stanly County
Dear Mr. Basinger,
www.albemarlenc.gov
PO Box 190
Albemarle, NC 28002
On behalf of The City of Albemarle, I would like to thank you and the staff of the Mooresville
Regional Office for the opportunity to provide additional information for the NOV dated May 8, 2019 and
June 12, 2019 listed above.
Over the winter of 2018-2019 Albemarle and the surrounding areas have had extreme amounts of
rainfall. The City of Albemarle Long Creek WWTP has certainly felt the effects of this as well. These
heavy rains, and inflow & infiltration associated with these events have been detrimental to the treatment
process.
During the above mentioned events, the biomass was lost. This loss is detrimental to the
nitrification process, BOD removal, and poor settling.
The restoration of the mixed liquor suspended solids has been extremely slow due to low influent
BOD concentrations.