NC0005363_Annual Monitoring_20210621

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1621 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1621
Subject: Weatherspoon's Acute Toxicity Monitoring (Episodic) Submittal
Dear Sir or Madam:
W. H. Weatherspoon Plant
491 Power Plant Rd
Lumberton, NC 28358
Mailing Address:
L. V. Sutton Energy Complex
801 Sutton Steam Plant Rd
Wilmington, NC 28401
o: 910.341.4775
In accordance with Part I, Condition A. (6) of our National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
(NPDES) Permit No. NC0005363, after monitoring of the first five toxicity tests for Duke Energy Progress,
LLC., Weatherspoon Steam Electric Plant's Outfall 001 - Cooling Pond, Duke will conduct one test
annually, with the annual period beginning in January of the next calendar year. The annual test
requirement must be performed and reported by June 30. If no discharge occurs by June 30, notification
will be made to the Division within 2 weeks after June 30.
Weatherspoon's NPDES permit became effective 11/1/2018 and has had episodic discharges on:
1. March 14, 2019 due to maintenance activities associated with constructing Outfall 003; data was
previously submitted.
2. June 19, 2020 due to maintenance activities associated with tree and vegetation maintenance;
data was previously submitted.
3. November 12, 2020 due to significant rainfall from a Cold Front and Tropical System Eta causing
Jacobs Creek overtopping the cooling pond dam and inundating the cooling pond; data was
previously submitted.
4. February 3, 2021 due to a maintenance activity associated with exercising equipment per O&M
recommendation; data was previously submitted.
There has been no additional toxicity test to date due to no discharge from this facility. Toxicity testing will
be performed on the next discharge event for the annual test requirement.
If there are any questions, please contact either:
• Mr. Kent Tyndall, EHS Professional for the W. H. Weatherspoon Plant, phone [phone] or
e-mail Kent.Tvndall@duke-energvcom• or
• Ms. Elizabeth Glenn, Environmental Specialist with our Environmental Permitting and Compliance
Group, phone [phone] or email [e-mail].
I certify, under penalty of law, that this document and all attachments were prepared under my direction or
supervision in accordance with a system designed to assure that qualified personnel properly gather and evaluate the
information submitted. Based on my inquiry of the person or persons who manage the system, or those persons
directly responsible for gathering the information, the information submitted is, to the best of my knowledge and
belief, true, accurate, and complete. I am aware that there are significant penalties for submitting false information,
including the possibility of fines and imprisonment for knowing violations.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Fla htafjan
Station Manager
Certified Mail # 70192280 0001 4397 2931 (1 copy)
C: Trent Allen, NCDENR-DWQ, FRO
225 Green Street, Ste 714, Fayetteville, NC 28301