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NC0064726
East Bend Industrial Park WWTP
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State of North Carolina
Department of Natural Resources and Community Development
Division of Environmental Management
512 North Salisbury Street • Paleigh, North Carolina 27611
James G. 1Martiu, Governor R. Paul Wilms
William W. Cobey, Jr., Secretary Director
July 24, 1989
Mr. John Pruett
Route 4, Box 43
East Bend, North Carolina 27108
Subject: Expansion of East Bend Industrial Park Discharge
NPDES No. NCO064726, Yadkin County
Dear Mr. Pruett:
Thank you for your letter of June 16, 1989, expressing your
heartfelt concerns about the expansion of the subject discharge
from 0.01 mgd to 0.05 mgd. I was quite -interested to read about:
the historic mill site and active use of the water downstream of
the proposed discharge. The Division of Environmental
Management.(DEM) often gains valuable information about the
potential impacts of management decisions from, concerned
citizens such as yourself that might otherwise go undetected.
Because of the issues that you and several others of your
community have raised, I have directed my staff to take certain
steps to further investigate this matter.
Your request for reclassification of the subject receiving
waters has been referred to Mr. Steve Zoufaly of DEM's Standards
& Assessment Unit. He will need to know the specific
classification type which you are seeking for the stream segment
of interest, and his office should be in touch with you in the
near future.
A copy of your letter has been sent to Mr. Arthur Mouberry of
the Division's Permits & Engineering Unit to keep on file and to
register your request for a public meeting. Currently, the
proposed permit expansion :is undergoing review by the Division
of Health Services. If approved, the permit will be noticed in
the Winston-Salem Journal and Yadkin Ripple newspapers for
public review and comment. The period for public comment lasts
30 days. Following the comment period, I will make a decision
whether to hold a public meeting, issue the permit, or deny the
expansion. Should I decide to hold a public meeting, 30 days
advanced notice will be given in the local newspapers, and the
meeting will be held in the geographic area of the proposed
discharge.
P.O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687 Telephone [phone]
An Equal Opportuniry Affirmative Action Employer

Mr. John Pruett
Page Two
Finally, I have been told by the Chief of our Water Quality
Section that a biological study of the receiving waters is
underway. Data gathered during this survey will be used to
assess the current health of the receiving waters, and will be
helpful in establishing a baseline for comparison to future
studies. In addition, this data will provide the information
necessary to evaluate the potential of the receiving waters for
an alternative classification. No decision regarding the
issuance of the NPDES permit for the expanded discharge will be
made until these studies have been completed.
Thank you again for your comments. I assure you that this
agency will do everything in its power to ensure maintenance
with the water quality standards of the State of North
Carolina. If you have further questions or comments regarding
this matter, please contact either Mr. Trevor Clements or
Mr. Arthur Mouberry at [phone].
Sincerely
J.
R. Paul Wilms
RPW:TC/am
CC: -,Tr.e.uor Clements
Arthur Mouberry
Ken Eagleson
Steve Zoufaly
Steve Mauney
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John Pruett
Mr. Paul Wilms
Director of Environmental
P. 0..Box 27687
Raleigh, N. C. 27611
Dear Mr. Wilms:
�F Route 4, Box 43
East Bend, N. C. 27108
h' June 16,1989
OUR 59
Management
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Having no word from the people connected with East Bend Industrial Park,
I decided that it was time to find out what is happening to the quality
of the water in the creek and its effect on the lake.
I telephoned Jim Johnston of the North Carolina Department of Natural
Resources and Community Development and he informed me that he would be
in the area on June 't to look at my situation and report what activities
are in progress. On June 7, he informed me that prior to his actual in-
vestigation he did not realize that such clean ground water existed in
Yadkin County. The large number of invertibrates and the existance of fresh
water clams are clear evidence of very pure water. According to'his words,
,Jim Johnston informed the mayor of East Bend that as soon as a parking
lot were to be built at the beginning of the creek all invertibrate life
would cease. HP stated that he recommended denial of Yadkin County's ap-
plication for permit to dump; treated sewage into the creek and that Raleigh
had obviously over -ridden his assessment of the situation.
It was during this meeting tnat _.s informed for the fir::.' is ...
Yadkin County is presently dumping sewage which is flowing into the
lake in which the neighbors, friends and myself swim and fish. '__
This community, presently called the Flint Hill Community, is historically
significant. There have been gristmills since 1788 and distilleries up
to Prohibition and a town of Shore incorporated in 1905. The mill was the
center of economic activity.
The lake is quite an institution in itself. I have made acquaintances of
over 100 peaple who fished its waters and so many have used this lake that
they a*- most assume that it is a public park. Only two and one half years
ago, wE purclased this property for the purpose of.living in the pristine
surroundings and restoring the mill, the house and grounds and promoting
the historical community. Several of our community are members of the
Yadkin County Historical and Geneological Society working toward this goal
for the pas-.; fifteen years. A large number of people have devoted their
time and teients to reworking the mill. Money and effort have been invested,
According to Mrs. Carrie Mae Algood, wife of the late Robert Algood, her
husband spent two years of weelends and much money repairing the beautiful
stone dam and removing the sediment that had accumulated during the past
century.( The dam was built by the Happ family of East Bend.) This area is
teeming with wildlife, w'_th beaver and fresh water clams as examples.
The property of the will is only fifty-six acres. most of the other farms
are between 100 and 500 acres. These people are hard-working folk and every
one I have met is concerned withis this issue of preservation of natural
resources and most of them with the historical background of the community.

%low is it possible that, with so few families along the creek, everyone
knows nothing about the sewage? Unless, of course those promoting the
industrial complex were trying to sneak through an undesireable action
with the assumption that the community should not or must not become
informed. As of this date I have informed neighbors and the continuing
flow of people stopping at he lake and no one had known that the stream
has been receiving sewage from the industrial park area and that the water
is undiinkable any more.
With as much sewage as a furniture plant may produce, would not a septic
tank and drainage field not be sufficient ? Would not better treatment
be accomplished by spreading the water over a forested area before putting
it into the stream.
Out of all the people who knew what was happening, no one (until June 7,198S
informed us at the mill about these conditions. They have let my family
purchase the mill with its magnificant lake and let me use 2 1,2 years of
my life rebuilding the house, the mill, the dam and the grounds. The
appearance of the community is improved and I am expected to educate the
young about history. I keep hearing that people want business in Yadkin
County, but I see them under -utilizing their resources and present activitie
People come from all over to visit the lake and mill. School children are
brought by their teachers to experience nature and history.I feel that these
perspectives need to be established. Now the lake and its later supply are
affected and Mrs. Plemmons in Winston-Salem informs me theclassification
will take from two months to a year. Mr. Cobb informs me hat I can do
nothing to stop the 10,000 gallons per day of treated sewage for five years
For all the people concerned, I am requesting:(1) peclassi.':.cs ion o,. he
creek as soon as possible,(2) A public hearing be held after July 12 and
(3) An :�nvironmental Impact Study be made. It would be at least a gesture
of good -will and might even be preventing disease if someone from the
polluters would go about the community to inform the residents to not
drink the water as they may have in the past.
I anticipate your serious consideration and your favorable reply.
Sincerely,
John Whidden Pruett

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State of North Carolina
Department of Natural Resources and Community Developmen
Division of Environmental Management
512 North Salisbury Street • Raleigh, North Carolina 27611
James G. Martin, Governor
J-,31.y 19, 1989
William W. Cobey, Jr., Secretary
John Pruett
Route 4 Box 43
East Bend, NC 27018
Dear Mr. Pruett:
JUL 20 1989 i s
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R. Paul Wilms
Director
Thank you for your request for the reclassification of the
creek that receives wastewater discharge from the East Bend
Industrial Park. The Standards and Assessment Unit has already
received a request to designate the pond on Butner Road as
Outstanding Resource Waters and we are in the process of
responding to that request. Your letter did not specify the area
that you request to be reclassified, nor did it indicate which
classification that you are seeking. If- your intentions differ
(in area or classification) from those of the request that we
have already received, please respond in writing specifying the
details of your request.
If you were planning to request that the area be designated
an Outstanding Resource Water (ORW), (please specify the area
that you are requesting if it is more than just the pond on
Butner Road), any information that you may have that would
support. an ORW designation would be helpful. Please keep in mind
that the area must have excellent water quality and meet at least
one of the following five values or uses:
1) an outstanding fish habitat or fisheries;
2) an unusually high level of water -based recreation or
potential for such recreation;
3) a previously assigned designation, such as a national or
state Natural and Scenic River, which does not provide any
water quality protection;
4) an important component of a state or national park or
forest; or
5) habitat for rare and endangered species or an area for
research and education where the waters are of special
ecological/scientific significance.
P.O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687 Telephone [phone]
An Equal Opportuniry Affirmative Action Employer

If the area appears to qualify, the State will conduct a full
study in order to assess the area's suitability for designation
as an ORW. It is very beneficial for us to have information
regarding resource values, etc. from people more familiar with
the area in order to make our assessment. We will continue to
proceed with your request once we have received your response
regarding this additional information.
The types of information that you might provide would be a
narrative description of the area including a county or U.S.
Geological Survey topographical map delineating the area. The
narrative description should include: the type and locations of
recreational activities such as swimming locations, hiking or
canoeing; church activities such as baptisms; land disturbing
activities such as logging, development or landfills; local
ordinances that would offer protection; any known or proposed
discharges of water; information with regards to the resource
values described above; or any other information relevant to
designation as an outstanding resource. (Note: You may reference
your letter of June 16 that discusses the historical mill if you
do not wish to add anything, but more details on the resources
that you touched on in that letter would be helpful.)
Sources of information might be your local and county
planning departments, outing clubs, church and civic groups,
universities, or various government agencies. In addition,
helpful information can be obtained by contacting Chuck Roe of
the Division of Parks and Recreation Natural Heritage Program
([phone]) and Fred Harris of the Wildlife Resources
Commission can direct you to an appropriate fisheries biologist
who would be knowledgeable of existing fisheries and fish
habitats. He can be reached at [phone].
It is not necessary for all of this information to be
provided in order for us to proceed with your request, but it
would certainly be useful in our determination of the suitability
of the waters for reclassification as ORW. We do, however, need
to receive more information from you regarding the specifications
of your request.
In the near future, the Division's Biological Assessment
Group will be conducting studies in order to establish the
existing water quality of some of the waters of the area. We
will keep you informed of such information as it becomes.
available.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact myself
or Suzanne Keen at [phone].
Sincerely,
I
\ J
Steve Zoufaly
cc: Trevor. _Clements '
Ken Eagleson
Jimmie Overton
Arthur Mouberry
Larry Coble