NC0020567_Approval_19980601

State of North Carolina
Department of Environment
and Natural Resources
Division of Water Quality
James B. Hunt, Jr., Governor
Wayne McDevitt, Secretary
A. Preston Howard, Jr., P.E., Director
Grant Goings
Town of Elkin
P.O. Box 857
Elkin, NC 28621
Dear Permittee:
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NC DENR
June 1, 1998
Subject: Implementation of Yadkin Pee -Dee River Basin Association
NPDES Permit Modification for Instream Sampling
NPDES Permit NCO020567
Surry County
As a participant in the coordinated instream monitoring efforts within the Yadkin -Pee Dee River basin,
your facility and the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) have
entered into an agreement that provides both parties with an effective environmental monitoring tool. By
this letter, the DENR is waiving the instream monitoring requirements as specified within your individual
NPDES permit beginning June 1, 1998. As specified in the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed by
this agency and you (or your representative), the agreement identifies the stations, parametric coverage
and frequency of analysis required in order that the instream monitoring requirements be waived for your
facility.
All other terms and conditions in the original permit remain unchanged and in full effect. These
modifications are issued pursuant to the requirements of North Carolina General Statute 143-215.1 and
the Memorandum of Agreement between North Carolina and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
dated December 6, 1983. Should your membership in the agreement be terminated, the instream
monitoring requirements specified in your permit will be reinstated. You shall notify the Division
immediately upon termination of membership.
I would like to express my appreciation for the cooperation and participation of all participants in this
innovative approach to environmental monitoring. It is expected that the results of the agreement will
effectively contribute to our understanding of the Yadkin -Pee Dee River basin environment. We have
designated Cathy Tyndall as our primary contact for issues related to the MOA. She can be reached at
[phone].
We also look forward to the advances that this cooperative agreement will provide in our management of
the Yadkin -Pee Dee River basin and ask that you feel free to contact us should any questions arise
regarding the monitoring efforts or interpretations of the information collected. We will be maintaining
our own series of monitoring stations in the basin which, when added to the information collected by this
agreement, will greatly expand our knowledge of this environmental system. We thank you again for your
participation and look forward to a successful monitoring effort.
Sincerely,
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cc: Central Files
Winston-Salem Regional Office, Water Quality Section
Susan Wilson, Point Source Compliance Enforcement Unit
Cathy Tyndall, Environmental Sciences Branch
NPDES Unit Files
P.O. Box 29535, Raleigh, North Carolina 27626-0535 919 733-5083, extension 511 (fax) 919 733-0719
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