NC0024295_approval_20150129

Pat McCrory
Governor
ATIA
NCDENR
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
January 29, 2015
Martin Lashua, Vice President of Operations NC/TN
Transylvania Utilities, Inc.
PO Box 240908
Charlotte, NC 28224
Subject: Adjusted Daily Sewage Flow Rate Approval
Connestee Falls Development
Connestee Falls Wastewater Treatment Plant No. 1
Transylvania County
Dear Mr. Lashua:
Donald R. van der Vaart
Secretary
On December 30, 2014, the Division of Water Resources (Division) received an adjusted daily sewage flow
rate (flow reduction) request that would apply to all permitted but not yet tributary residential connections
tributary to the Connestee Falls Wastewater Treatment Plant No. 1.
In accordance with 15A NCAC 02T .0114(f)(2), the Division has evaluated the request and based on the data
submitted, the Division hereby approves for use by the facility, an adjusted daily sewage design flow rate of
85 gallons per day per bedroom.
For proposed residential connections with flows tributary to the Connestee Falls Wastewater Treatment
Plant No. 1 the following conditions apply:
• The flow reduction is applicable to residential single family dwellings only.
• The minimum flow for 1 and 2 bedroom dwellings shall be 171 gallons per day.
• This flow reduction shall not apply to sewer extension applications and/or permits for any other
public or private organizations whose wastewater flows are or might become tributary to the
Connestee Falls Wastewater Treatment Plant No. 1.
Future residential connections should be made using the flow reduction amount stated above. All other
aspects of the permitting process remain unchanged, and all applications must be in compliance with the
statues, rules, regulations and minimum design criteria as certified by the owner and engineer.
Regardless of the adjusted design daily wastewater flow rate, at no time sh-all the wastewater flows exceed
the effluent limits defined in the NPDES Permit for the treatment facility or exceed the capacity of the
sewers downstream of any new sewer extension or service connection(s).
The granting of this flow reduction does not prohibit the Division from reopening, revoking, reissuing
and/or modifying the flow reduction as allowed by the laws, rules, and regulations contained in 15A NCAC
02T, NCGS 143-215.1, or as needed to address changes in State and/or Federal regulations with respect to
wastewater collection systems, protection of surface waters and/or wastewater treatment.
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Adjusted Daily Sewage Flow Rate Approval
January 29, 2015
If you have any questions, please contact Michael Leggett at [phone], or via e-mail at
[e-mail].
Sincerely,
for S. Jay Zimmerman, Acting Director
Division of Water Resources, NCDENR
by Deborah Gore, Supervisor
Pretreatment, Emergency Response, Collection System Unit
cc: Dales C. Stewart, PE — Land Design ([e-mail])
Asheville Regional Office, Water Quality Section Regional Operations
Water Resources Central Files: NC0024295 & WQCS00219
PERCS (electronic copy)