NC0035904_NPDES Draft Permit_20090421

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North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Division of Water Quality
Beverly Eaves Perdue Coleen H. Sullins Dee Freeman
Governor Director Secretary
April 21, 2009
GJ Freeman, PE
North Carolina Department of Correction
4216 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699 -4216
Subject: Draft NPDES Permit
Permit NC0035904
McCain Correctional Hospital WWTP
Hoke County
Dear Mr. Freeman:
Enclosed with this letter is a copy of the draft permit for your facility. Please review the draft carefully to
ensure a thorough understanding of the conditions and requirements it contains.
The noted changes within the draft permit are the following additions to the Supplement to Permit Cover Sheet:
■ Manual bar screen,
Backup disinfection equipment — chlorine tablets, and
• Standby power — emergency generator
If these treatment units do not correctly represent your overall wastewater treatment system, then please let me
know at your earliest.
Pleasesubmit any comments to me no later than thirty (30) days following your receipt of this draft. Comments
should be sent to the address listed at the bottom of this page. If no adverse comments are received from the
public or from you, this permit will likely be issued in mid -June 2009, with an effective date of August 1, 2009.
If you have any questions or comments concerning this draft permit, contact me at [phone] or via email
at "[e-mail]".
Attachments
Cc: NPDES Files
DWQ/SWP — Belinda Henson, FRO (via email)
DWQ/ESS — Cindy A. Moore, Aquatic Toxicology Unit (via email)
1617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1617
Location: 512 N. Salisbury St. Raleigh, North Carolina 27604
Phone: [phone] \ FAX: [phone] \ Customer Service: 1-877-623-6748
Internet: www.ncwaterquality.org
An Equal Opportunity \ Affirmative -Action Employer
Sincerely,
Vanessa E. Manuel
Eastern NPDES Program
One
NorthCarolina
Naturally

Permit NC0035904
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
N.C. Department of Correction
is hereby authorized todischarge wastewater from .a facility located at the
McCain Correctional Hospital WWTP
NC Highway 2.11 south of McCain
Hoke County
to receiving waters designated as an unnamed tributary to Mountain Creek in the
Lumber River Basin in accordance with effluent limits, monitoring requirements,
and other conditions set forth in Parts I, II, III and IV hereof.
This permit shall become effective JVIC
This permit 'and authorization to discharge shall expire at.midnight on July31, 2014.
Signed this day
DRAFT (4/13/2009)
Coleen H. Sullins, Director
Division of Water Quality
By Authority of the Environmental Management Commission

• Permit NC0035904
SUPPLEMENT TO PERMIT COVER SHEET
All previous NPDES Permits issued to this facility, whether for operation or discharge are hereby revoked. As of
this permit issuance, any previously issued permit bearing this number is no longer effective. Therefore, the
exclusive authority to operate and discharge from this facility arises under the permit conditions, requirements,
terms, and provisions included herein.
The N.C. Department of Correction is hereby authorized to:
1. Continue to operate an existing 0.200 MGD wastewater treatment facility with
the following components:
• Manual and mechanical bar screens
• 296,000-gallon aeration basin with 3 floating aerators
• 40,500-gallon clarifier
• 72,000-gallon clarifier
• 99,000-gallon aerobic sludge digester with 2 diffused aerators
• 7500 ft2 drying bed
• Ultraviolet disinfection equipment
♦ Backup disinfection equipment - chlorine tablets
• Effluent flow measurement
♦ Standby power - emergency generator
This facility is located at the McCain Correctional Hospital WWTP off NC Highway
211 south of McCain in Hoke County.
2. Discharge from said treatment works at the location specified on the attached
map into an unnamed tributary to Mountain Creek, currently classified C waters
in the Lumber River Basin.

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Permit NC0035904
A. (1.) EFFLUENT LIMITS AND MONITORING REQUIREMENTS — DRAFT
During the period beginning on the effective date of the permit and lasting until expiration, the permittee is
authorized to discharge treated wastewater from outfall 001. Such discharges shall be limited and monitored by
the permittee as specified below:, p•,
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Footnotes:
1. Upstream: at least 100 feet upstream froni he outfall. Downstream: Downstream approximately 2.1 miles
at NCSR 1214.
2. The Total Residual. Chlorine (TRC) monitoring and limit requirements apply only if chlorine or chlorine
derivative is used for. disinfection. The Division shall consider all effluent TRC values reported below 50
µg/L to be in compliance with the permit. However, the permittee shall continue to record and submit all
values reported by a North Carolina certified lab (including field certified), even.if.these values fall below 50
µg/L. Again, only applicable if chlorine is used..
3. The temperature of the effluent shall not cause an increase in temperature of the receiving stream of more
than 2.8°C. In no case shall the temperature of the effluent cause the ambient water temperature to exceed.
32°C. .
4. The daily average Dissolved Oxygen effluent concentration shall not be less than 5.0 mg/L.
5. Samples collected must be analyzed by EPA_Method 1631.
6. Chronic Toxicity (Ceriodaphnia) P/F at 67%: January, April, July, October (see. Part I. A. (3) below).
There shall be no.discharge of floating solids or visible foam in other than trace amounts.

Latitude: 35°02'57°
Longitude: 79°21'26°
Quad # G21SE (McCain, NC)
Stream Class: C
Subbasin: 03-07-50
Receiving Stream: UT. Mountain Creek
NC0035904
McCain Correctional
Hospital WWTP
SCALE 1 :24000

Permit NC0035904'
A. (2) MERCURY REOPENER
The Division may re -open this permit to require mercury load limits, mercury minimization
plans, and/or. source water characterization following completion of the Phase.2 Mercury
TMDLs for the Lumber and Waccamaw River watersheds.
A. (3) CHRONIC. TOXICITY PERMIT LIMIT (Quarterly)
The effluent discharge shall at no time exhibit observable inhibition of reproduction or significant
mortality to Ceriodaphnia dubia at an effluent concentration of 67%.
The permit holder shall perform at a minimum, quarterly monitoring using test procedures outlined
in the "North Carolina Ceriodaphnia Chronic Effluent Bioassay Procedure," Revised February 1998,
or subsequent versions or "North Carolina Phase II Chronic Whole Effluent Toxicity Test Procedure"
(Revised -February .1998) or subsequent versions. The tests will be performed during the months of
January, April, July & October. Effluent sampling for this testing shall be performed at the NPDES "
permitted final effluent discharge below all treatment processes.
If the test procedure performed as the first test of any single quarter results in a failure or ChV
below the permit limit, then multiple -concentration testing shall be performed at a minimum,
in each of the two following months as described in "North Carolina Phase II Chronic Whole
Effluent Toxicity Test Procedure" (Revised -February 1998) or subsequent versions.
The chronic value for multiple concentration tests will be determined using the geometric mean of the
highest concentration having no detectable impairment of reproduction or survival and the lowest
concentration that does have a detectable impairment of reproduction or survival. The definition of
"detectable impairment," collection methods, exposure regimes, and further statistical methods are
specified in the "North Carolina Phase II Chronic Whole Effluent Toxicity Test Procedure" (Revised -
February 1998) or subsequent versions;
All toxicity testing results required as part of this. permit condition will be entered on the Effluent
Discharge Monitoring Form (MR-1) for the months in which tests were performed, using the
parameter code TGP3B for the pass/fail results and THP3B for the Chronic Value.
Additionally, DWQ Form AT-3 (original) is to be sent to the following address:
NC DENR / DWQ / Environmental Sciences Section
1621 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, North Carolina . 27699-1621
Completed Aquatic Toxicity Test Forms shall be filed with the Environmental Sciences Section no
later than 30 days after the end of the reporting period for which the report is made.
Test data shall be complete, accurate, include all supporting chemical/physical measurements and.
all concentration/response data, and be certified by laboratory supervisor and ORC or approved
designate signature. Total Residual Chlorine of the effluent toxicity sample must be measured and
reported if chlorine is employed for disinfection of the waste stream.
Should there be no discharge of flow from the facility during a month in which toxicity
monitoring is required, the permittee will complete the information located at the top of the
aquatic toxicity (AT) test form indicating the facility name, permit number, pipe number,
county, and the month/year of the report with the notation of "No Flow" in the comment area
of the form. The report shall be submitted, to the Environmental Sciences Section at the
address cited above.
Should the permittee fail to monitor during a month in which toxicity monitoring is required,
monitoring will be required during the following month.

Permit NC0035904
Should any test data from this monitoring requirement or tests performed by the North
Carolina Division of Water Quality indicate potential impacts to the receiving stream, this
permit may be re -opened and modified to include alternate monitoring requirements or limits.
If the permittee monitors any pollutant more frequently then required by this permit, the results of
such monitoring shall be included in the. calculation & reporting of the data submitted on the DMR &
all AT Forms submitted.
NOTE: Failure to achieve test conditions as specified in the cited document, such as minimum
control organism survival, minimum control organism reproduction, and appropriate environmental
controls, shall constitute an invalid test and will require immediate follow-up testing to be completed
no later than the last day of the month following the month of the initial monitoring.