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ROY COOPER
Governor
JOHN NICHOLSON
Interim Secretory
S. DANIEL SMITH
Director
Dalton K Jones
Diamond J Farms
688 Bethel Church Rd
Mount Olive, NC 28365
Subject: Notice of Deficiency
Diamond J Farms
AWS310219
Duplin County
NOV-2021-PC-0411
Dear Mr. Jones:
NORTH CAROLINA
Environmental Quality
July 28, 2021
On June 24, 2021, staff of the NC Division of Water Resources (DWR), Water Quality Regional
Operations Section (WQROS) noted during a compliance inspection a failure to have an analysis
of the representative sample of the animal waste to be applied.
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, a deficiency has been noted for failing to provide a waste analysis for the waste to
be applied with your Certified Animal Waste Management Plan and the Swine Waste System
General Permit No. AWG100000 that you are covered to operate under.
Deficiency 1:
Failure to provide an analysis of a representative sample of the animal waste to be applied,
conducted in accordance with recommended laboratory sampling procedures as close to the time
of application as practical and at least within sixty (60) days (before or after) of the date of
application. Every reasonable effort shall be made to have the waste analyzed prior to the date of
application and as close to the time of waste application as possible, per Condition III.5. of
Swine Waste System General Permit No. AWG100000.
Between August 12th, 2020 and August 23rd, 2020, 8 spraying events occurred with no valid
waste analysis. The COVID amendment for waste analyses ended in June of 2020. On the
previous years inspection, a note was made by the inspector to complete a waste analysis as soon
as possible to cover the above mentioned spraying events. An analysis was never completed.
Required Corrective Action for Deficiency 1:
NORTH
oeperanent of Environmental Ouaiity
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Division of Water Resources
Wilmington Regional Office 1127 Cardinal Drive Extension I Wilmington, North Carolina 28405
910.796.7215

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The facility should plan to obtain an analysis of a representative sample of the animal waste to be
applied, conducted in accordance with recommended laboratory sampling procedures, as close to
the time of application as practical and at least within sixty (60) days (before or after) of the date
of application.
You are required to take any necessary action to address the above violation. 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 Quality 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] or Jennifer
Ryan at [phone].
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NORTH CAROLINA
Deamhnent of Environmental llualiry
Sincerely,
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Tom Tharrington, Assistant Regional Supervisor
Water Quality Regional Operations Section
Wilmington Regional Office
Division of Water Resources, NCDEQ
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Division of Water Resources
Wilmington Regional Office 1127 Cardinal Drive Extension I Wilmington, North Carolina 28405
910.796,7215