NC0020842_CORRESPONDENCE_19940314

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NPDES Permit:
NC0020842
Snow Hill WWTP
Document Type:
Permit Issuance
Wasteload Allocation
Authorization to Construct (AtC)
Permit Modification
Speculative Limits
Correspondence
re: Instream Monitoring
Instream Assessment (67B)
Environmental Assessment (EA)
Permit
History
Document Date:
March 14, 1994
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State of North Carolina
Department of Environment,
Health and Natural Resources
Washington Regional Office
James B. Hunt, Jr., Governor
Jonathan B. Howes, Secretary
Nancy Smith, Regional Manager
March 14, 1994
The Honorable R. Ben Rayford, Mayor
Town of Snow Hill
304 North Greene Street
Snow Hill, NC 28580
SUBJECT: Instream Monitoring Program
Contentnea Creek
Dear Mayor Radford:
On Tuesday, March 8, 1994, Danny Gray - Maury Sanitary Land District, Cecil
Taylor - Town of Hookerton, and Donald Hart and Mike Sutton - Town of Snow Hill
met with Scott Jones and Margie Meares from the Division of Environmental
Management's Washington Regional Office. The purpose of this meeting was to
discuss changes in the instream monitoring program for the subject facilities.
It was the consensus of those present that the mosteffectiveand efficient
method of performing required instream monitoring for each facility is to have
one individual collect all data and samples. Danny Gray - MSLD has offered to
perform the sampling and coordinate the results among the facilities.
It is the Division's intention to sample at the U.S. Highway 13/258 Bridge, N.C.
Highway 123 Bridge, and NCSR 1004 Bridge. These locations will be sampled for
temperature, dissolved oxygen, conductivity, and fecal coliform weekly from
September - May and three times per week from June - August. Final NPDES Permits
for subject facilities are anticipated to include this sampling regime for both
upstream and downstream points. If this cooperative plan is unworkable, then
each facility will be responsible for its own upstream and downstream monitoring.
While the Division recognizes many options for such sampling, we strongly support
the proposed plan as suggested during the March 8 meeting. This monitoring
program will eliminate repetitive sampling among the facilities while ac the same
time provide the most consistent data. Additionally, if the plan is properly
managed, then all three facilities will benefit economically as a result of
reduced equipment needs, man hours, and laboratory costs.
All sampling schedules and reporting will be arranged by the operators with the
Division's assistance. Should you have any further questions, please call Scott
Jones or Margie Meares at [phone]. Thank you for your suppor= in this
matter.
Sincerely;
Scs /1%GjI
Scott Jones Marc
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Division of Environmental Management
Washington Regional Office
cc: Permits and Engineering
Instream Assessment Unit
WARO File
1424 Carollno Avenue, Washington, North Carolina 27889 Telephone [phone] FAX [phone]
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Cdn�nmoe Creek at SR 1622 (pt. of DO sag in model)
Contentnea Creek at NC 58. near Stanhmsburg
Commntnea Creek at US 13 / 258 [Proposed Ambient Station]
Contentnea Creek at NC 123 (Ambient Station 02.0915.00001
Contentnea Creek at SR 1004
Contentnea Creek at Hwy 118 [Ambient Station 02.0917.66901
Contontnea Creek at mouth
© Little Contentnea at SR 1218 [Interac6onl
Little Contenmea at US 264 (Interaction: Ambient Station 02.0917.0000]
Little Contentnea at SR 1110 [mouth]
Mocassin Creek at SR 1131; mouth [Proposed Ambient Station, headwaters of Buckhome Reservoir]
Nahunta Swamp at NC 58 [mouth] (ma[or tributary
Toisrwt Swamp at NCSR 1539 [mouth] (major tributary
Taylors Mill Pond impacts

State of North Carolina
Department of Environment,'
Health and Natural Resources
Division of Environmental Management
James B. Hunt, Jr., Governor
Jonathan B. Howes, Secretary
A. Preston Howard, Jr., P.E., Director
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March 4, 1994
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Honorable R. Ben Rayford F"`" Fa
Mayor, Town of Snow Hill
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Snow Hill, North Carolina 28580
Subject: Snow Hill Instream Monitoring
NPDES No. NCO020842
Greene County
Dear Mayor Rayford:
I am writing in response to your letter of February 9, 1994 in which you inquired about the Town of Snow
Hill's instream monitoring requirements. Contentnea Creek is currently under review for the 1998 Neuse
Basin Management Plan. One of the aspects of this review is the coordination of the instream monitoring
requirements for the modeling analysis of this watershed. To this end, the Division of Environmental
Management is attempting to integrate its data collection needs with the economic constraints of the
facilities which are required to collect such data. Therefore, a member of our Washington Regional Office,
Marjorie Meares, will be contacting your facility to establish instream. monitoring sites. Ms. Meares will be
offering the Towns of Snow Hill, Hookerton and Maury the option of sharing the instream monitoring
requirements. This option of sharing monitoring should not only dramatically decrease the amount of
sampling each facility will be required to take, but if the three towns involved choose to hire one individual,
(or company) to perform all the monitoring, the data collected should then establish the most conclusive
and accurate portrayal of this waterbody system.
If you have further questions or need additional information, please contact Ms. Meares through our
Washington Regional Office at (919) 946 - 6481,
Cinerely,
onald L. Safrit,
Assistant Chief f<
m: Marjorie Meares
Dave Goodrich
Central Files
P.O. Box 29535, Raleigh, North Carolina 27626-0535 Telephone [phone] FAX [phone]
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February 9, 1994
Mr. A. Preston Howard, Jr., P.E., Director
Division of Environmental Management
State of North Carolina
Department of Environment, Health and
Natural Resources
P. O. Box 29535
Raleigh, NC 27626-0535
SUBJECT:
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After reviewing the Town's draft for the above subject, it was realized that the sample
points had been relocated. The Town requests that the upstream and downstream sampling
points are not changed and remain at the same location that sampling has also been done.
If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact me.
Sincerely,
R. Ben Rayford
Mayor
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