NC0080381_permit issuance_20031229

NPDE!i DOCUWEN'I' SCANNINK COVER SNEE'I'
NPDES Permit:
NC0080381
Monroe — John Glenn WTP
Document Type:
Permit Issuance
Wasteload Allocation
Authorization to Construct (AtC)
Permit Modification
Complete File - Historical
Engineering Alternatives (EAA)
Staff Report
Instream Assessment (67b)
Speculative Limits
Environmental Assessment (EA)
Document Date:
December 29, 2003
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Mr. Allen Killough
City of Monroe
P.O. Box 69
Monroe, North Carolina
Dear Mr. Killough:
Michael F. Easley
A Governor
fML� William G. Ross, Jr., Secretary
NCDENR North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Alan W. Klimek, P.E., Director
Division of Water Duality
28111-0069
December 29, 2003
Subject Issuance of NPDES Permit NCO080381
John Glenn WfP
Union County
Division personnel have reviewed and approved your application for renewal of the subject permit.
Accordingly, we are forwarding the attached NPDES discharge permit. This permit is 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 May 9, 1994 (or as subsequently amended).
This final permit includes no major changes from the draft permit sent to you on November 5, 2003.
This permit includes a TRC limit that will take effect on August _1.2005. If you wish to install
dechlorination equipment, the Division has promulgated a simplified approval process for such projects. Guidance
for approval of dechlorination projects is attached.
If any parts, measurement frequencies or sampling requirements contained in this permit are unacceptable to
you, you have the right to an adjudicatory hearing upon written request within thirty (30) days following receipt of
this letter. This request must be in the form of a written petition, conforming to Chapter 150B of the North Carolina
General Statutes, and filed with the Office of Administrative Hearings (6714 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North
Carolina 27699-6714). Unless such demand is made, this decision shall be final and binding.
Please note that this permit is not transferable except after notice to the Division. The Division may require
modification or revocation and reissuance of the permit. This permit does not affect the legal requirements to obtain
other permits which may be required by the Division of Water Quality or permits required by the Division of Land
Resources, the Coastal Area Management Act or any other Federal or Local governmental permit that may be
required. If you have any questions concerning this permit, please contact Dawn Jeffries at telephone number (919)
733-5083, extension 595.
Sincerely,
04W ftn1d BY
DaWd A. 160drich
Alan W. Klimek, P.E.
cc: Central Files
Mooresville Regional Office/Water Quality Section
NPDES Unit
N. C. Division of Water Quality / NPDES Unit Phone: [phone]
1617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699.1617 fax: [phone]
Internet: h2o.enr.state.nc.us DENR Customer Service Center..1800623.7748

Permit NCO080381
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
DIVISION OF WATER QUALITY
PERMIT
TO DISCHARGE WASTEWATER UNDER THE
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM
In compliance with the provisions of North Carolina General Statute 143-2.15.1, other lawful
standards and regulations- :promulgated and adopted by the North Carolina Environmental
Management Commission, and the Federal Water Pollution.Control Act, as amended; the
t
City of Monroe
is hereby authorized to discharge wastewater from a facility located at the
John Glenn WTP
211-9 Old Camden Road (NCSR.1606)
Monroe
Union County
to receiving waters designated as Stewarts Creek in the Yadkin -Pee Dee River Basin
in accordance with effluent limitations, monitoring requirements, and other
conditions set forth in Parts I, II, III and IV hereof.
This permit shall become effective February 1, 2004.
This permit and authorization to discharge shall expire at midnight on January 31, 2009.
Signed this day December 29, 2003.
Alan W. Klimek, P.E., Director
Division of Water Quality
13y Authorityy of the Environmental Management Commission

Permit NCO080381
SUPPLEMENT TO PERMIT COVER SHEET
All previous NPDES Permits issued to this facility, whether for operation or discharge are hereby revoked. As of this permit
issuance, any previously issued permit bearing this number is no longer effective. Therefore, the exclusive authority to operate
and discharge from this facility arises under the permit conditions, requirements, terms, and provisions included herein.
The City of Monroe is hereby authorized to:
1. Continue to operate a water treatment plant with a discharge of filter -backwash
wastewater. Filter -backwash treatment components include:
➢ Clarifier
➢ 18 sand beds
➢ 2 vacuum beds
➢ Sludge storage lagoon
➢ 2 submersible centrifugal decant pumps
➢ Effluent parshall flume
➢ Flow metering device
This facility is located at the John Glenn WTP (conventional facility, surface
water intake), northeast of Monroe at 2119 Old Camden Road (NCSR 1606) .in
Union County.
2. Discharge from said treatment works at the location specified on the attached
map into Stewarts Creek, classified C waters in the Yadkin -Pee Dee River Basin.

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Receiving Stream: Stewarts Creek Long.: 80°28'37"
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Permit NCO080381
A. (1.) EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS AND MONITORING REQUIREMENTS —'FINAL
During the period beginning on the effective date of this permit and lasting until expiration, the Permittee is
authorized to discharge from outfall 001. Such discharges shall be limited and monitored bythe Perniittee as
specified below:
EFFLUENT
CHARACTERISTICS
LIMITS
MONITORING REQUIREMENTS
Monthly
Average
Daily
Maximum
Measurement
Frecluency
Sample Type,
Sample Location '
Flow
Weekly
Instantaneous
Effluent
Total Suspended Residue
30.0. mg/L
45.0 mg/L
2/Month
Grab
Effluent
Settleable Solids
0.1 ml/L
0.2 mVL
Weekly
Grab
Effluent
Turbidityl
Weekly
Grab
Upstream & Downstream..
Iron "
Weekly
Grab
Effluent
Aluminum
Weekly
Grab
Effluent
"
Total Residual Chlorine'
28,ugll
Weekly
Grab
Effluent.
Footnotes:
1. The discharge from thisfacility shall not cause turbidity in the receiving stream to exceed 50 NTU.If the
instream turbidity exceeds 50 NTU due to natural background conditions, the discharge cannot cause
turbidity to increase in the receiving stream.
2. Limit takes effect August 1, 2005. Until the limit takes effect, the permittee shall monitor TRC (with no
effluent limit).
All samples must be collected from a typical discharge event.
There shall be no discharge of floating solids or visible foam in other than trace amounts.

STATE
COMMISSIONANPOes UNIT
NORTH CAROLINA, -
1617MAIL
' SERVICE CENTER
UNION COUNTY.
RALEIGH,NC27699-1617
NOTIFICATION OF INTENT
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
- To ISSUE A NPOES
WASTEWATER PERMIT
Before the undersigned, a Notary Public of said County and State, duly
On the Oasis of
staff review,ant4a"Sm
commissioned, qualified, and authorized by law to administer oaths,
of w~
143.2f:'Pubfic law 92.500
personally appeared Pat Deese ........ .. ... .... .
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who being p y
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Cpa5 es to issue a National
Principal Clerk
. engaged in the publication
116fard Discharge Bimina-
Von - .Systems (NPOES)
of a newspaper known as The Enquirer -Journal, published, issued, and
wastewater discharge permit
entered as second class mail in the City of Monroe in said County and
to the person(s) listed balm
effective days boot ere
State; that he is authorized to make this affidavit and sworn statement;
punish date m .Nis.. noses.
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that the notice or other legal advertisement, a true copy of which is
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Written comments regarding
attached hereto, was published in The Enquirer -Journal on the following
the proposed Penh will be
accepted urdd 30. dag after
the publish dale of this no -
dates:
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and that the said newspaper in which such notice, paper, document, or
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was published was, at the time of each and every such
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publication, a newspaper meeting all the requirements and qualifications
publcarve interest,
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of Section 1-597 of the General Statutes of North Carolina and was a
and otter
and other' supporting I Infm-
qualified newspaper within the meaning of Section I-597 of the General
motion on file wed to dater,
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Statutes of North Carolina.
the draft pemioare avatleb s,
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the dusts of repr6clod in.
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This . day of .. N. .. 20Q3
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at the above address op call
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Please thou de, the ../f
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sd) In a�ry communiba.
Interested persons may
visit the a512,Division W Wa-
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City of Monroe,.North
,line has applied or re -
Glenn WetarTbahnem Plant - in Union County, The bodily
��- 0 permitted to discharge 0%/ � �' inches Cl00 i
treated hoar backwash water 7 y%
hoot one terlkSte warts MONROE, N.C. in//
Creek in the Yadkin- Pee
Dee River Basin. Currently, A&
total residual chlorine is wa- �(%Q / N PDE S %r„r�
yI ter quality limited. This dig- ) ACCOUNT �: O3 00Z,31
` charge may affect future allo-
cations in this portion of the
watershed. .
November 9,2W3 Char ,6f��lf'.eJ acsGr. COST: $ 7ow I3
nc z 701- i6 i 7
—IN ACCOUNT WITH— Ai=r;:w;=r
014e Enquirer -Journal NOV 12 2003
P.O. Box 5040
500 W. Jefferson St. WWSUDUtI UrflGt
Monroe, N.C. 28111-5040
Important Leaal Document. PlPaca Retain

NC DENR / DWQ / NPDES Unit - FACT SHEET FOR PERMIT DEVELOPMENT
Permit NCO075701
FacilitY Information'
Facility:
City of Monroe / John Glenn WTP
NPDES Permit:
NCO080381
Permitted Flow:
No Limit
Facility Class:
I
Type of Waste:
WTP — Filter Backwash
Permit Status:
Renewal
County:
{� i
.'� Str..eam Characteristics _
Receiving Stream:
Stewarts Creek
Stream Classification:
C
Subbasin:
30714
" Miscellaneous
Regional Office:
Mooresville
USGS To o Quad:
G17SW
Changes Incorporated into Permit Renewal
P"ro' os6d Chan es
Parameters Affected
..,Basis for Chan e s .. ,
Add Total Residual Chlorine limit
TRC
I DWQ TRC policy
Summary
This facility is a conventional WTP using aluminum sulfate. Correspondence files for 2002 are missing
and files for 2001 and 2003 show no NOV/MOD's and no Compliance Evaluation Inspections results.
I reviewed DMRs for the period January 2001— August 2003. Turbidity was above the 50NTU limit in
the current permit only once, and then the turbidity downstream was no higher than upsteam. No
effluent violations were noted. The range for TRC was 0.0-0.54 mg/I. For iron, it was <0.05-10.0.
mg/I. Aluminum ranged from <0.1-10.0 mg/I. Although pH levels were not limited by the permit,
levels were recorded and always measured 6-9 standard units.
Per division policy for total residual chlorine, I have added a TRC limit to this permit. I limited it at
28pg/I rather than 17pg/I due to the fact that it is apparent that much dilution is available(although it
cannot be calculated exactly how much. since no permitted flow is stipulated). ,
The receiving stream is not listed in the 303d.
Proposed Schedule for Permit Issuance
Draft Permit to Public Notice: November 12, 2003
Permit Scheduled to Issue: December 29, 2003
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NC DENR / DWQ / NPDES Unit - FACT SHEET FOR PERMIT DEVELOPMENT
Permit NCO075701
State Contact
If you have any questions on any of the above information or on the attached permit, please contact
Dawn Jeffries at:
[phone], extension 595
[e-mail]
Copies of the following are attached to provide further information on the permit development:
• Draft Permit
4
NPDES Recommendation by: Date:
Regional Office Comments
Regional Recommendation by: Date:
Reviewed Bv:
Regional Supervisor: Date:
'' Z !
NPDES Unit: �-n�,� Date:
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FACT SHEET FOR EXPEDITED RENEWAL
Permit Number
Facility Name
Reviewer
Basin/Sub-basin
b �
Receiving Stream
S4r,� -i C
Is the stream impaired (listed on 303(d))?
Is stream monitoring required?
P.S �%vi
Do they need NH3 limit(s)?
No
Do they need TRC limit(s)?
es A
Do they have whole -effluent toxicity testing?
No
Are there special conditions?
d
Any obvious compliance concerns?
/Vo
Existing Expiration Date
o
Proposed Expiration Date
0
Miscellaneous Comments:
GbAll IV -
Circle one: C! XPEDITE DO NOT EXPEDITE
If expedited, is this a simpler permit or a more difficult one?

SOC PRIORITY PROJECT: NO
To: Permits and Engineering Unit
Water Quality Section
Attention: Charles Weaver
u EC
Date: December 4, 2003
NPDES STAFF REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS
County: Union
NPDES Permit No.: NC0080381
MRO No.: 03-85
PART I - GENERAL INFORMATION
1. Facility and address: John Glen WTP
2210 Old Camden Road
Monroe, NC 28110
2. Date of investigation: October 24, 2003
3. Report prepared by: B. Dee Browder, Environ. Engr. I
4. Person contacted and telephone number: Allen Killough, [phone]
5. Directions to site: From the junction of Highway 200 and Olive Branch Road
approximately .5 miles northeast of the Monroe city limits, travel northeast on
Olive Branch Road approximately 3.5 miles to the intersection with Old Camden
Road. Turn left and proceed north on Old Camden Road. The WTP is on the
immediate left (west) side of the road following this turn.
6. Discharge point(s), List for all discharge points: -
Latitude: 350 02' 13"
Longitude: 800 28' 37"
Attach a USGS Map Extract and indicate treatment plant site and discharge point
on map.
USGS Quad No.: G 17 SW Watson, NC
7. Site size and expansion area consistent with application: Yes.
8. Topography (relationship to flood plain included): The site is not located in a
flood plain.

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9. Location of nearest dwelling: No dwellings within 1,000 feet of the water
treatment plant.
10. Receiving stream or affected surface waters: Stewarts Creek
a. Classification: C
b. River Basin and Subbasin No.: Yadkin 03-07-14
C. Describe receiving stream features and pertinent downstream uses: The
receiving water is a segment of Stewarts Creek below the dam for Lake
Twitty. Downstream users are agricultural and secondary recreation.
PART H - DESCRIPTION OF DISCHARGE AND TREATMENT WORKS
1. a. Volume of wastewater: N/A(Design Capacity)
b. What is the current permitted capacity: N/A
C. Actual treatment capacity of current facility(current design capacity).N/A
d. Date(s) and construction activities allowed by previous ATCs issued in the
previous two years: N/A
e. Description of existing or substantially constructed WWT facilities: Backwash
water from the water treatment filters is discharged to the wash water lagoon. The
supernatant is then discharged at controlled intervals by the decant pump station or
by gravity through the parshall flume where it is metered, from there it flows into
Stewarts Creek.
f. Description of proposed WWT facilities: N/A
g. Possible toxic impacts to surface waters: Filter backwash waters could
potentially have toxic characteristics.
h. Pretreatment program .(POTWs only): Not Needed.
2. Residual handling and utilization/disposal scheme: Residuals produced at the WTP
are discharged to the City's WWTP for treatment and disposal via land application.
a. If residuals are being land applied specify DEM Permit No. WQ0001346
Residuals contractor: Town of Monroe
Telephone No. [phone]
b. Residuals stabilization: PSRP PFRP N/A
C. Landfill: N/A
3. Treatment plant classification: No treatment

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4. SIC Code(s): 4941 Wastewater Code(s): 21
5. MTU Code(s): 00000
PART III - OTHER PERTINENT INFORMATION
Is this facility being constructed with construction grant funds or are any public
monies involved (municipals only)? No
2. Special monitoring or limitations (including toxicity) requests: None at this time.
3. Important SOC/JOC or compliance schedule dates: N/A
Submission of plans and specifications
Begin construction
Complete construction
4. Alternative Analysis Evaluation
a. Spray irrigation: N/A
b. Connect to regional sewer system: N/A
C. Subsurface: N/A
d. Other disposal options: N/A
PART IV - EVALUATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
The permittee is applying for renewal of the permit to discharge filter backwash water. It
is recommended that the permit be renewed as requested.
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Signature of Report Preparer Date
S, u 1
Water Quality RLjional Supervisor Date
hidsNwW.d.

CITY OF MONROE
P.O. BOX 69 • MONROE, NORTH CAROINA 28111-0069
PHONE [phone] • FAX [phone]
July 30, 2003
'Mrs. Valery Stephens
NC-DENR/Water Quality/Point Source Branch
1617 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1677
Re: Application for Permit Renewal
NPDES Permit NCO080381
City of Monroe John Glenn Water Treatment Plant
Stewarts Creek — Yadkin/Pee Dee Basin
Union County
Dear Ms. Stephens:
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LTY
DENR-WATEqp NCH
Please find enclosed in triplicate an application for renewal of NPDES Permit No. NCO080381 for the
discharge of treated basin sludge and backwash water from a water treatment plant process to the waters
of Stewarts Creek in Union County. This application is being submitted in advance of the 180 days
required to the expiration of the existing permit on January 31, 2004.
We are requesting that you review the enclosed application and renew our permit in accordance with the
requirements of state regulation.
The facility is not a primary industry under Title 40CFR, Appendix A; therefore no priority pollutant
analysis is required. The facility is an existing facility.
Please do not hesitate to contact me at any time during the review process if you have any questions.
Respectfully,
Russell Colbath, P.E.
Director of Water Resources
TASIWR/Filter Plant & Dam/NPDES Permit NCO080381 Application Renewal Letter 7-30-03

NPDES PERMIT APPLICATION - SHORT FORM C
For manufacturing or commercial facilities with a discharge < 1 MGD (or WTPs)
N. C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Division of Water Quality / NPDES Unit
1617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1617
North Carolina NPDES Permit Number NC00 80381
Please print or type
1. Applicant and facility producing discharge
A. Name CITYOFMONROE - John Glenn Water Treatment Plant
B. Mailing address of applicant:
Street address P.O. BOX 69 .
City MONROE County UNION
State NC Zip Code28111-0069
Telephone Number (704 )282-4601
Fax Number [phone]
e-mail address rcolbathamonroenc.org
C. Location of facility:
Contact Person Allen. Killough
Street 2119 Old Camden Road
CityMonroe County Union
State NC Zip Code28110
Telephone Number (704 )282-4668
2. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code(s):4952
3. Number of employees:10
4. Principal product(s) produced Potable Water
Principal raw material(s) consumed: ferric chloride.
5. Principal process(es):flocculation, coagulation, sedimentation, filtration
6. Amount of principal product produced (or raw material consumed)
(List snecific amounts consumed and/nr units of nrnductinnl
Product Produced or Raw Material Consumed
Product Produced or Raw Material Consumed
AVERAGE
PEAK
per Day
6,680,000 gallons
10,000,000 gallons
per Month
202,000,000 gallons
251,270,000 gallons
per Year
2,434,000,000 gallons
2,434,000,000 gallons
7. Check here if discharge occurs all year Z, or
Circle the month(s) in which discharge occurs: January February March April
May June July August September October
November December
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NPDES PERMIT APPLICATION - SHORT FORM C
For manufacturing or commercial facilities with a discharge <1 MGD (or WTPs)
Days per week discharge occurs: 365
NOTE: If the facility has separate discharge points (outfalls) or multiple industrial processes, include a schematic
diagram of wastewater flow at the facility.
8. . Types of wastewater discharged to surface waters only (check as applicable).
Discharge per operating day
Flow
GALLONS PER OPERATING DAY
Volume treated before discharging
PERCENT
Sanitary - daily average
Cooling water, etc. - daily average'
Process water - daily average
315,000
100%
Maximum per -operating day for
total discharge (all types)
732,000
100%
9. If any of the types of wastewater identified in item 8 (either treated or untreated) are discharged to places
other than surface waters, record the amount(s) discharged below:
A. Municipal sewer system N/A gpd
B. Underground well N/A gpd
C. Septic tank N/A gpd
D. Evaporation lagoon or pond N/A gpd
E. Other, specify N/A gpd
10. Number of separate discharge points: 1
11. Name of receiving stream(s):Stewart Creek
12. Does your discharge contain or is it possible for your discharge to contain one or more of the following
substances added as a result of your operations, activities, or processes? Circle all that apply:
aluminum
ammonia
beryllium _ cadmium
chromium c lorine (residual)
copper
cyanide
lead mercury
nickel oil and grease
phenols
selenium
zinc
None of the above
I certify that I am familiar with the information contained in the application and that to the best of my
knowledge and belief such information is true, complete, and accurate.
Russell G. Colbath
Director of Water Resources
Printed name of Person Signing Title
Signature of Applicant Date
North Carolina General Statute 143-215.6E (i) provides that: Any person who knowinglymakes any false statement representation, or certification in any application, record,
report, plan, or other document files or required to be maintained under Article 21 or regulations of the Environmental Management Commission implementing that Article, or
who falsifies, tampers with, or knowingly renders inaccurate any recording or monitoring device or method required to be operated or maintained under Article 21 or
regulations of the Environmental Management Commission implementing that Article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $10,000, or by
imprisonment not to exceed six months, or by both.
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Sludge Management Plan
John Glenn Water Treatment Plant
City of Monroe, North Carolina
Wastewater from the water treatment process consists of backwash water from the filters and ferric
chloride sludge removed from the. sedimentation basins.
The backwash water from the filters is discharged to the -wash water lagoon. In the wash lagoon solids
from the backwash settle to the bottom. The clear water on the top is then pumped to our clarifier by our
wash water lagoon decant pumps.
Ferric chloride sludge from the sedimentation basins is discharged to the clarifier by routine operation of
the trac vac system or during periodic basin cleaning.
In the clarifier the solids and water are separated. The solids are concentrated in the bottom of the
clarifier and pumped to sand drying beds. During the pumping process the sludge is condition with
polymer at the sludge pumping pumps. The dewatered cake from the sand drying beds is currently taken
to the City of Monroe's wastewater plant where it is blended with their sludge and land applied in
accordance with Land Application Permit No. WQ0001346.
The clear water from the top of the clarifier is discharged at controlled intervals by the decant pumping
station or gravity feed through the parshall flume where it is metered, from there it flows into Stewarts
Creek.
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TAS/WR/Filter Plant & Dam/NPDES Permit NCO080381 Application Renewal Letter 7-30-03