NC0049867_NOV-2019-LV-0334 Response_20190520

Town of Cleveland
302 East Hain Street
P.O. Box 420
Cleveland, NC 27013
(''04-)z&4''77
May 20, 2019
W. Corey Basinger, Regional Supervisor
Ratter: Quality Regional Operabous Section
NCDEQ-mwresvtUe Regional Office
610 East Center Ave., Suite 301
Mooresville, NC 28115
SUBJECT:. Response to NOV 2019-LV-0334
Dear Mr. Basinger:
This Fetter is in response to the abovo Notice of Violation. Daring march, the 13CO continued to
be irregular with gwse results 3I3=38.5, 311 2$A 3113=64,8 and 31 0=1 7,7:.A.pril was alsq
viable with BOB resale: 413=56.2, �1B�--27 ;.1fr=18 ad�23 3b:.2.
Wilts continue-
to show variability: 5i1=18.9 an1518 20.9. See the attached w&i.ty far May with Copy of
email correspondence sent to Roberto Scheder.andthe-itwolvement of Consultant Joe McCottgan
on May 1.
On May 13 new scales for:CL2 and Sfl2 were approved along with a new PH System for the
influent. These have been ordered and �ltaulci be i!nsta Cd as soon as they am-recowa
Monitoring of specific manholes confinue by our maintenance and Police Department. Sampling
of each lift station is being done during MAY -
As you can see, the Town has diligently conftued searching tee.. of the high BO D
violations and taken nuczoas stems to try icy alleviate the impact to our vstem. ifthe is 9ny
technical assistanedthat. you offer"drat help tip: stabs the. wastewatertreatawnt system, we
would greatly appreciate it.
S�
Danny Gabriel
Mayor
cc: Commissioner Gerald Osborne
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Date: es/09/2019 [01:26:34 PM CDT]
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Subject: Town of Cleveland high BODE update
Hell, Roberto. My last email to you on this subject was April the 1 th. I wanted to giveyou a quick
update.
You were right about changing the sample tubings and Ming a. new Jug probably not helping cause it
didn't.
on sample date 413 we got a ROD Of 56.2 but the GO grab I did of the horning of collection was a al.
on.sample date 4/16 the compos ti BOD was 18.4 and the COD gram of that morning was a 40_ I also did
3 other COD grabs starting the.morning z started:the sampler. at gam a 32, 11:30 a 30 and then 230pm a
25. That day seemed to he pretty consistent.
on 4/17 I had Miller septic service come in a completely clean out my influent. and.splitter box and
blowout incoming lines. It was incredible.the amount of grit was: in the system. I have video to show
you the next time I see you. Even they wereamazed how much it was. Needed to be done a long time agQ
to say the least.
They were here until 63®pm and when done we went pack th4 influent.'to have a look ,and saw blat
water coming in that had a oily sheen on top. This was at lbast.1.5 hours after they had cleaned it
so couldn't have been from their cleaning earlier, They fel-tthat look sgspirious. I then noticed the
satire thing again on the morning of 511. Going to try and get a.sapple the next time I see it.
Also on 511 we had the towns engineer bring. in a guy fry.his group named Joe McGougan
from MBD counsulting to land some ideas Otis ending suggestion was to seed our plant with sludge from
another which we did on 5/2. His thoughtwas'it could give:.th� plant a %oust then if the KDs go back
up then we'd know -for sure there is something beitig dumpedory, us periodically; we transferred 7,0N
gallons from the Cooleemee plant to oetrs, i
The ortelhing I.. have noticed already from this
is that my PHs hwe, come up without the need :of weekly lime Not sore if i had Mentioned that to you
or not but I have been having to add lime several days a week just to Stay ahead of falling PiS sine
all this had started. This week the PHs avere good without any help.
Last week I setup portable samplers in both clarifiers to get a 24 composite from them at the save
time as the effluent. I have not received tbe:offic al results, yet except that the cl:ar filers BODs
were around a 2 but the effluent was a 18. Not. sure what to do with this data. yet but still good to
have. Will run this several more times to see if it's; consistent,
And one last thing, before I tie up your whole day- with this,, I hav usedyour skofirg
the bugs several times a week and even hard.the lab take a look for rite as well. Sd far they seem to
feel we have a good diversity.of life but will continue to look especially if the Bobs take another
dive.
Thanks for your time and I apologize 'for the length. I meant -for it to be quick but it got away from
me.
Hope you have a great weekend and thanks again,
Paul Land