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NPDES DOCUMENT SCANNIMS COVER SHEET
NPDES Permit: NC0006220
Kannapohs WTP
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Document Date: October 11, 1999
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State of North Carolina
Department of Environment •
and Natural Resources
Division of Water Quality
James B. Hunt, Jr., Governor NCDENR
Bill Holman, Secretary NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF
Kerr T. Stevens, Director ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
October 11, 1999
Mr. David Hales
City Manager
P.O. Box 107
Kannapolis, North Carolina 28081
Subject: Issuance of NPDES Permit NCO006220
Kannapolis WTP
Rowan County
Dear Mr. Hales:
The Division received your application for a wastewater discharge permit on March 2, 1999.
Division personnel have reviewed and approved your application. Accordingly, we are forwarding the
attached NPDES discharge permit. This permit is issued pursuant to the requirements of North
Carolina General Statute 143-215.1 and the Memorandum of Agreement between North Carolina and
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency dated December 6, 1983, and as subsequently amended.
If any parts, measurement frequencies or sampling requirements contained in this permit are
unacceptable to you, you have the right to an adjudicatory hearing upon written request within thirty
(30) days following receipt of this letter. This request must be in the form of a written petition,
conforming to Chapter 150B of the North Carolina General Statutes, and filed with the Office of
Administrative Hearings, Past Office Drawer 27447, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7447. Unless such
demand is made, this decision shall be final and binding.
Please note that this permit is not transferable except after notice to the Division. The Division
may require modification or revocation and reissuance of the permit.
This permit does not affect the legal requirements to obtain other permits which may be
required by the Division of Water Quality or permits required by the Division of land Resources, the
Coastal Area Management Act or any other Federal or Local governmental permit that may be
required.
If you have any questions concerning this permit, please contact Charles Weaver at telephone
number [phone]. extension 511.
Sincerely,
Original Sighed By
David A Goodrich
Kerr T. Stevens
cc: Central Files
Mooresville Regional Office/Water Quality Section
NPDES Unit
Point Source Compliance Enforcement Unit
1617 Mail Service Center,Raleigh,North Carolina 27699-1617 Telephone[phone] FAX[phone]
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Permit NC0006220
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
DIVISION OF WATER (QUALITY
PERMIT
TO DISCHARGE WASTEWATER UNDER THE
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM
In compliance with the provision of North Carolina General Statute 143-215.1, other lawful
standards and regulations promulgated and adopted by the North Carolina Environmental
Management Commission, and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, the
City of Kannapolis
is hereby authorized to discharge wastewater from a facility located at the
Kannapolis WTP
NCSR 1109
northwest of Kannapolis
Rowan County
to receiving waters designated as Irish Buffalo Creek in the Yadkin-Pee Dee River
Basin
in accordance with effluent limitations, monitoring requirements, and other
conditions set forth in Parts I, I1, Ill and IV hereof.
This permit shall become effective November 1, 1999.
This permit and authorization to discharge shall expire at midnight on October 31, 2003.
Signed this day October 11, 1999.
Original Signed By
David A. Goodrich
Kerr T. Stevens, Director
Division of Water Quality
By Authority of the Environmental Management Commission
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Permit NCO006220
SUPPLEMENT TO PERMIT COVER SHEET
The City of Kannapolis is hereby authorized to:
1. Continue to operate an existing water-treatment system discharging filter
backwash. This facility is located at the Kannapolis Water Treatment Plant on
NCSR 1109 northwest of Kannapolis in Rowan County.
2. Discharge from said treatment works at the location specified on the attached
map into Irish Buffalo Creek, classified C waters in the Yadkin-Pee Dee River
Basin.

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Pennit NCO006220
A. (l.) EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS AND MONITORING REgUIREMENTS — FINAL
During the period beginning on the effective date of this permit and lasting until expiration, the Permittee is
authorized to discharge filter backwash from outfall 001_ Such discharges shall be limited and monitored by
the Permittec as specified below:
EFFLUENT LIMITS MONITORING REQUIREMENTS
CHARACTERISTICS
Monthly Daily Measurement Sample Type Sample Location
Average Maximum Frequency
Flow Weekly Instantaneous Effluent
Total Suspended Solids 30.0 mg/1 45.0 mg/1 2/Month Grab Effluent
Settleable Solids 0.1 mg/1 0.2 mgll Weekly Grata Effluent
Turbidity' Weekly Grab upstream&Downstream
Iron Weekly I Grab Effluent
Total Residual Chlorine Weekly Grab Effluent
Aluminum Weekly Grab Effluent
Footnotes:
1. The discharge from this facility shall not cause turbidity in the receiving stream to exceed 50 NTU. If the
instream turbidity exceeds 50 NTU due to natural background conditions. the discharge cannot cause
turbidity to increase in the receiving stream.
All samples collected should be collected from a representative discharge event.
There shall be no discharge of floating solids or visible foam in other than trace amounts.

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ROWAN COUNTY AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
Before the undersigned.a Notary Pubic of said County and Stale -lul. 'ncnruissioneSl,gmnliii,•d, -i l authorized by law to administer
oaths,personally appeared STEVE JC i'INSON,who being first du;st^ n.deposes and says that Ile is Advellisinq Ir
PUBLISHING COMPANY,INC.,enga(-ed in the publication of a n!wrl net known as TI IE POST, publish &Lw
second class mail in the City of Salisb Pry,in said County and Star 1W he i,authorized to make Ibis:IEfid d r ur statement,
that the notice or other legal advertisement a true copy of which Ir:nr h(nf hereto.was Onblish—i in THE POST, onfl �the folnf
dates: A1�� 1L Vol
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August 23, 1999
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every such publication,a newspaper meeting all of the requirements and qualifications of Section 1-597 of tyneral Statutes of
North Carolina and was a qualified newspaper within the meaning of Section 1-597 of the General Statutes of North Carolina.
This 24 th day of August 19 99
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this 24th day of August, l099 i
NOTARV PUBLIC
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NC DENR / DWQ / NPDES Unit - FACT SHEET FOR PERMIT DEVELOPMENT
Permit NC0006220
Facility Information
Facility: City of Kanna olis WTP
NPDES Permit: NCO006220
Permitted Flow: No Limit
Facility Class: I
Type of Waste: WTP — Filter Backwash
Permit Status: Renewal
County: Rowan
Stream Characteristics
Receiving Stream: Irish Buffalo Creek
Stream Classification: C
Subbasin: 30712
Miscellaneous
Regional Office: Mooresville
USGS TooQuad: E16SW
Changes Incorporated into Permit Renewal
Proposed Changes Parameters Affected Basis for change(s)
No changes None Permit meets requirements
for WTPs
Summar,C
This facility is a conventional WTP using aluminum sulfate. Since issuance of the last permit, there
have been 4 Compliance Evaluation Inspections (CEIs) by personnel from the Mooresville Regional
Office.
CEI 16 November 1995
• No violations noted at the site.
• DMRs reviewed October 1994 — September 1995. Errors in frequency of sampling were noted, but
no limit violations..
CEI 8 August 1996
• No violations noted at the site.
• DMRs reviewed October 1995 — May 1996. No violations noted on the DMRs.
CEI 29 July 1997
• No violations noted at the site. Notice served that the on-site laboratory must be certified by Nc
DENR prior to providing sample analyses for several parameters (lab was not evaluated).
• DMRs reviewed July 1996 —June 1997. No violations noted on the DMRs.
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NC DENR / DWQ / NPDES Unit - FACT SHEET FOR PERMIT DEVELOPMENT
Permit NC0006220
CEI 20 April 1999
• No violations noted at the site.
• DMRs reviewed March 1998 — February 1999. No violations noted.
I reviewed DMRs for the period July 1997 — February 1998. One violation of the Total Suspended
Solids limit occurred in October 1997 (an NOV was issued at the time of DMR submission). Turbidity
violations occurred in November 1997 (Upstream = 9.0 NTU, Downstream = 59.7 NTU); December
1997 (Upstream = 30.1 NTU, Downstream = 50.5 NTU) and January 1998 (Upstream = 55.2 NTU,
Downstream = 56.3 NTU). No other effluent violations were noted.
The receiving stream is not impaired or threatened. Irish Buffalo Creek does not appear on the latest
303(d) list.
Proposed Schedule for Permit Issuance
Draft Permit to Public Notice: August 20, 1999
Permit Scheduled to Issue: October 6, 1999
State Contact
If you have any questions on any of the above information or on the attached permit, please contact
Charles Weaver at:
[phone], extension 511
charies—[e-mail]
Copies of the following are attached to provide further information on the permit development:
• Draft Permit
NPDES Recommendation by: Date:
Regional Office Comments
Regional Recommendation by: Date:
Reviewed By:
Regional Supervisor: Date:
NPDES Unit: Date:
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PILLOWTEX
w KANNAPOLIS WATER TREATMENT PLANT
KANNAPOLIS, NC 28081
February 22, 1999
Mr. Charles H. Weaver, Jr.
NCDENR/DWQ/NPDES
P.O. Box 29535
Raleigh, NC 27626-0535
Subject: Renewal of NPDES
Permit NC 0006220
Kannapolis, W.T.R.
Rowan County
Dear Mr. Weaver:
We are requesting the Renewal of our NPDES permit to discharge
backwash water from the City of Kannapolis W.T.P. No changes have taken
place since issuance of the last permit pertaining to backwash operations.
The amount of backwash and its constituents have not changed.
We discharge our settled solids-Alum Residual to a lagoon. The
decanted water is sent to.a pre-treatment W.W.T.P. This does not include our
backwash water. A sludge management Plan Preliminary Design was completed
by FPS on 11/98. It includes an Equalization Basin, Sludge Thickner, Sludge
Holding Basin, and Sludge Drying Beds. We are currently waiting on Funding
Approval,
Please call John Erickson (704-939-2503 if.you have any questions.
Sincerely,
John Erickson