090044_NOD-2020-PC-0475_20201216

ROY COOPER
Governor
MICHAEL S. REGAN
Secretary
S. DANIEL SMITH
Director
Mr. Byron Melvin
4912 NC Hwy. 87 W
Elizabethtown, NC 28337
NORTH CAROLINA
Environmental Quality
December 16, 2020
Subject: Notice of Deficiency
Melvin Bros Farms LLC
NCA209044
Bladen County
NOD-2020-PC-0475
Dear Mr. Melvin:
On September 29, 2020, staff of the NC Division of Water Resources (DWR), Water Quality
Regional Operations Section (WQROS) inspected the Melvin Bros. Farms LLC waste disposal
system. We wish to think Mr. Melvin, who was present and assisted during the inspection.
As a result of this incident, you are hereby notified that, having been permitted to have a non -
discharge permit for the subject animal waste disposal system pursuant to North Carolina
General Statutes G.S. 143-215 et seq. Section .402, you have been found to have been found to
be in violation of your permit as follows:
Deficiency 1:
Failure to test and calibrate all waste application equipment at least once per year. The results
must be documented on forms provided by, or approved by, he Division [15A NCAC
02T .1305(b)] NCA200000 Section IV 12.
On September 29, 2020 during your routine compliance inspection, it was documented that you
failed to calibrate your waste application equipment during 2019. The last documented
calibrations were done in 2018.
DNorth Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Division of Water Resources
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Mr. Byron Melvin
December 16, 2020
Required Corrective Action for Deficiency 1:
Calibrate all waste application equipment that is used on this farm every year. You have other
permitted swine farms that operate under the State General Permit AWG100000. If you use any
waste application equipment from these farms it must also be calibrated every year.
You are required to take any necessary action to address the above violation:
The Division of Water Quality requests that, in addition to the specified corrective action above, please
submit the following items on or before January 16, 2021.
1. An explanation from the OX for this farm regarding how this violation occurred.
2. A list from the O1C concerning the steps that will betaken to prevent these violations from
occurring in the future.
3. Documentation that the waste application equipment has been calibrated for 2020.
Failure to comply with conditions in the permit may result in a recommendation of enforcement
action, to the Director of the Division of Water Resources who may issue a civil penalty
assessment of not more than twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars against any "person" who
violates or fails to act in accordance with terms, conditions, or requirements of a permit under
authority of G.S. 143-215.6A
If you have any questions concerning this Notice, please contact Steve Guyton at [phone]
or at Steve. uyion o,ncdenr.gov.
Sincerely,
Trent Allen Regional Supervisor
Water Quality Regional Operations Section
Fayetteville Regional Office
Division of Water Resources, NCDEQ
cc: DWR - WQROS - CAFO Unit — Central Office
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