WQ0007026_NOD-2020-PC-0107 Remail_20200721

ROY COOPER
Governor
MICHAEL S. REGAN
Secretary
S. DANIEL SMITH
Director
NORTH CAROLINA
Environmental Quality
Certified Mail # 7016 3560 0000 4428 7311
Return ReceiRt Re uest d
July 21, 2020
Ashley Innman — Administrator
Sanford Health and Rehabilitation Co.
2702 Farrell Road
Sanford, NC 27330
SUBJECT: RE -MAILING NOTICE OF DEFICIENCY
ASSOCIATED WITH CERTIFIED RECEIPT # 7 12 1640 MI 9605 7065
Case Number: NOD-2020-PC-0107
Permit No. WQ0007026
Sanford Health and Rehabilitation
Chatham County
Dear Permittee:
The subject document may have been lost in the mail. This is another attempt to deliver the subject
Notice of Deficiency to you. You are required to respond to this notice before September 1, 2020.
E Q�� North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality I Division of Water Resources
Raleigh Regional Office 13800 Barrett Drive I Raleigh. North Carolina 27609
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P.O'r COOPER
MICHAEL S REGAN
S. DANIEL SPAITH
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CERTIFIED HAIL9 7012 1640 0001 9605 7065
RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
,4shley [unman -- Adnunistrator
Sanford Health and Rehabilitation Co-
2702 Farrell Road
Sanford, NC 27330
Subject: Notice of Violation
NOD-2020-PC-0107
Permit No.1VQ0007026
Sanford Health and Rehabilitation Co.
Lee Countv
Dear ivIs. lnnman,
Staff of the NC Division of Water Resources (DNVR), Water Quality Regional Operations Section
inspected the subject wastewater irrigation system on February 27, 2020 to inspect recent repairs that were
done to the existing sand filter that is covered under permit WQ0007026.
The following permit conditiontlimitation violations were observed durin-the time of the inspection.
Please also refer to the attached inspection report.
III. OPER-ATION AND 11a1NTEN_\\CE RLOUIREMENTS
Condition 1 which states "The facilities shall be properly maintained and operated at all times."
During the inspection, permit condition violations were noted as follows:
A. Wastewater remained ponded on the surface of the sandfilter throughout the 25-minute
inspection which is an indication ofa failing sand filter. There does not appear to be a
biological mat built up that could impede drainage. It appeared that the: surface of sand filter
was recently raked, but water was still ponding.
B. The switch on the control panel that should test the function of the alarm activates the sand
Filter pump instead,

You are required to respond to this notice on or before April 15, 2020. Specifically, the response:
should minimally include the following information.
1. Please have the en-ineer or consultant submit an engineering= certification statinu that the: correct
sand was used and that the sanditlter was properly rebuilt according to the originally approved
plans.
2. Please provide a time table for how you will determine the cause of the failure and also when and
how the drainage problem will be addressed, as well as when the: control panel alarm will be fixed.
This office requires that the Violations, as detailed above, be abated and properly resolved.
Environmental damage and violations of North Carolina Administrative Codes have been documented for
the subject site as stated above. Your efforts to undertake activities to brim_ the subject site back into
compliance is not an admission, rather it is an action that must be taken to begin to resole a ongoing
environmental issues.
Failure to comply with conditions in a permit may re,ult in a reconimendation of enforcement action, to the
Director of the Division of Water Quality who may issue a civil penalty assessment of not more that twenty-
five thousand (S25,000) dollars against any -person" who violates or fails to act in accordance with the
terms, conditions, or requirements of a permit under authority of G.S_ 143-215.6A.
Should you have any questions regarding these matters, please contact Ray Milosh or me at (919) 791-
4200.
Sincerely,
Scott Vinson
Regional Supervisor - Raleigh Regional Office
Water Quality Regional Operations Section
NCDEQ - Division of Water Resources
cc: DWR RRO files
DWR Central Office Files
Lee County Enviroprrigntal Health,- 1 t5 Chatham St, Sanford, NC 27330
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