520027_NOV-2021-PC-0159_20210303

ROY COOPER
Governor
MICHAEL S. REGAN
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Robert Cox
1006 Old Kinston — Trenton Rd.
Trenton, NC 28585
NORTH CAROLINA
Environmental Quality
March 3, 2021
Subject: Notice of Violation
Robert L. Cox Farm (Griffin Farm) #52-27
AWS520027
Jones County
NOV-2021-PC-0159
Dear Mr. Cox:
On February 16, 2021, staff of the NC Soil and Water Conservation (NCSWC), notified the
Division of Water Resource (DWR), of a violation at your facility.
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 15A NCAC 2T
Section .1300, you have to have failed to complete a sludge survey in accordance with your
Certified Animal Waste Management Plan and the Swine Waste System General Permit No.
AWG100000 that you are covered to operate under.
Violation 1:
Failure to complete a sludge survey in accordance with the facility's Certified Animal Waste
Management Plan in accordance with Condition I1I.22. of Swine Waste System General Permit
No. AWG100000.
The facility failed to complete a sludge survey in 2020. A sludge survey is required annually,
unless an extension is granted.
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Division of Water Resources
Washington Regional Office 943 Washington Square Mall I Washington, North Carolina 27889
252.946.6481

Required Corrective Action for Violation 1:
Please complete an annual sludge survey in your lagoon .
You are required to take any necessary action to address the above violation. You are
required to provide a written response to this Notice, including any additional information
that you wish to provide related to this incident that you wish for the Division to consider,
within 30 days of receipt of this letter. Please include in your response all corrective actions
already taken and a schedule for completion of any corrective actions not addressed.
Failure to comply with conditions in a 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 me at [phone].
Sincerely,
V4 Auk'
David May, L.G., Supervisor
Water Quality Regional Operations Section
Division of Water Resources
Washington Regional Office
cc: Jones County Soil and Water Conservation District
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