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KEN N ETH RAYNOR
1083 Tew Road 1910-271-3177 I [e-mail]
July 3, 2021
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
Division of Water Resources
Fayetteville Regional Offices
225 Green Street, Suite 714
Fayetteville, North Carolina 28310
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Dear North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality:
On April 1, 2021 our farm was out of hogs in House #2. I had recently purchased the farm and
we were trying to clean it up. Because of high lagoon levels, the farm had not been washed
down properly in two turns. There was some solid material in the pit of house #2 that broke up
and flowed down the pipe that goes to the lagoon and stopped up. In turn, the water
backed up in house #2 and leaked out of a crack in the foundation. When this occurred and
found out, I got there as quick as possible, stopped the flow, and stopped up the ditch so it
couldn't go any further. I used pumps and pumped water back out of the ditch into the
lagoon. After this incident occurred, we fixed the cracks in the foundation, cleaned out the
pit, and adjusted the recycle timer where it is only running when someone is on the farm.
Sincerely,
Kenneth Raynor