NC0023906_Correspondence_20180608

Weaver, Charles
From: Weaver, Charles
Sent: Friday, June 8, 2018 10:12 AM
To: 'Jimmy Pridgen'
Cc: Manuel, Vanessa; Grzyb, Julie
Subject: RE: [External] RE: Total Hardness in NC0023906
Jimmy — you probably did talk to me, as I'm one of 2-3 people with permission in BIMS to add parameters to an active
permit. I don't have it my email archive because we handled it over the phone. I should have sent you an email
confirming the change, but I probably had 20 other people [as usual] nagging me for changes/updates.
You don't need to do anything. I'm sorry all this computer incompatibility has caused a headache for you. You're not
alone. Both ICIS and ECHO are riddled with bad data, either entered incorrectly or processed by EPA into something
different than what was uploaded.
As I mentioned in an earlier message, I'll vouch for you regarding the Hardness issue if EPA or any 3rd party gives you
grief about it. Sorry for all this trouble.
Have a good weekend.
CHW
From: Jimmy Pridgen [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Friday, June 8, 2018 10:03 AM
To: Weaver, Charles <[e-mail]>
Subject: [External] RE: Total Hardness in NC0023906
Charles,
I remember having a conversation with someone back then. I would assume it was you. I don't know for sure though.
can't find anything in my archived emails either so I assume it may have just been a phone conversation. At the time,
we were running upstream hardness monthly but there was no provision in BIMS for us to get it onto eDMR. We were
still pretty new to eDMR at the time. I think I recall being told that it had to be entered as Monthly so it would allow us
to enter the data each month. I didn't realize at the time that the Monthly designation would eventually run into a big
headache by triggering erroneous non -reporting violations. Sorry about that or I would at least tried to resolve
sooner. NCDEQ never contacted us to indicate they were seeing as violation. We only saw it when we looked at ECHO
web page.
I did ask that Hardness be added so we could get our Upstream hardness data into the BIMS database. Hardness is used
to adjust dissolved metals limits and we need historical hardness data to do that. That is why we wanted the info in the
BIMS database so it would be available at permit renewal. We moved from monthly to quarterly monitoring once we
felt we had enough info in database for permit writers. That is why we looked to be non -reporting in each quarter. We
missed two months in each quarter. We also run hardness on our effluent for all the same reasons.
If we hand entered our data into eDMR, then we could have probably entered as needed but we have our own access
database that uploads all of our eDMR data at one time. Computers and software are great but they can create some
headaches at times.
i

Thanks again for all your help with this Charles. Let me know if I can assist in any way. Hope you have a great weekend!
JP
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Water Reclamation Manager
City of Wilson
Water Reclamation Facility
P.O. Box 10
3100 Stantonsburg Road
Wilson, NC 27894-0010
Office: 252-399-2491
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Website: www.wilsonnc.org
From: Weaver, Charles [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2018 9:23 AM
To: Jimmy Pridgen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Total Hardness in NCO023906
Jimmy — I added Total hardness to BIMS for NCO023906 in late 2016, but the parameter is not required by your current
permit. Did you request that I add it, or was there some other reason?
I keep all the emails related to limit & monitoring changes, corrections, etc. I just got a new computer and not all of my
old messages transferred over. I can't find any archived messages relating to NCO023906 & Hardness.
Do you recall why this change was made?
Please forgive an old man's failing memory, and thanks for your help.
Charles H. Weaver
Environmental Specialist
N.C. Division of Water Resources
N.C. Department of Environmental Quality
919-807-6391
charles.weaver(@ncdenr.gov
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