NCG080000_Email RE Buncombe Co Xfer Station and Fleet Maint Facility_20211115

Georgoulias, Bethany
From: Wiggs, Linda
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2021 12:35 PM
To: Aiken, Stan E; Riddle, Shawna; Carson, Brittany; Pinder, Avril;
[e-mail]; Dane (Wesley D.) Pedersen
Cc: Smith, Mike M; Georgoulias, Bethany; Victoria Hoyland; [e-mail];
Ledford, Chad; Bergeron, Shannon
Subject: Buncombe County Transfer Station and Fleet Maintenance Facility - Hominy Creek Rd
Importance: High
Buncombe County Staff and DEMLR staff,
The Buncombe County Transfer Station and Fleet Maintenance Facility located at 190-194 Hominy Creek Road
is required to be covered under a NPDES Permit and to properly monitor and report discharges to surface
waters. This Facility has had two incidents in just over a years' time that resulted in releases from its point
source discharge outfalls that carried potentially highly polluted water to a heavily recreated area of Hominy
Creek. The incidents are as follows:
11/3/2021: Release of diesel fuel from the maintenance fueling area. (Spill - Fleet Maintenance)
8/26/2020: Release of leachate from the transfer station area. (Bypass to MSD sewerline - Transfer Station)
Both of these incidents came into the Asheville Regional Office Water Quality Regional Operations Section
(ARO-WQROS) as complaints from Citizens the following day of the actual incidents. No notification from
Buncombe County staff was received by ARO-WQROS within 24 hours of the incident taking place, nor to our
knowledge were any other appropriate Agencies (DEQ, City, County, MSD etc.) properly notified by Buncombe
County staff. Upon receipt of the complaints, ARO-WQROS staff contacted Buncombe County Solid Waste
staff the following day of the releases and the staff verified the releases had indeed occurred.
This Facility has been verbally informed now twice that a Permit is to be obtained and that proper reporting is
required. To date ARO-WQROS staff is not aware of a NPDES Certificate of Coverage being issued for this
Facility. Proper monitoring and reporting is to take place at this facility. Even though this is a County facility
conducting two different activities onsite it needs to be determines if NPDES Permit coverage for any runoff
from this facility is required. Please schedule an inspection of this facility to determine if it is operating
without a permit and if so what permit is needed for proper coverage to best protect the receiving
streams. Please respond back to me with your findings by December 31, 2021.
Thank you,

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