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NCS PERMITS
PERMIT NO.
DOC TYPE
❑ FINAL PERMIT
❑ MONITORING REPORTS
VAPPLICATION
❑ COMPLIANCE
❑ OTHER
DOC DATE
❑ Zo 13 iz 19
YYYYM M D D
Permit Coverage Permit Number
Renewal Application Form NCS000106
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
Stormwater Discharge Permit
The following is the information currently in our database for your facility. Please review this information carefully and make all
corrections/additions as necessary in the space provided to the right of the current information.
Owner Affiliation Information • Reissued Permit will he mailed to the owner address
Owner / Organization Name:
Owner Contact:
Mailing Address:
Phone Number:
Fax Number:
E-mail address:
Kapstone Kraft Paper Corporation
Anitra Collins
100 Gaston Rd
Roanoke Rapid, NC 27870
Facility/Permit Contact Information
Facility Name: Roanoke Rapids Mill
Facility Physical Address: 100 Gaston Rd
Roanoke Rapids, NC 27870
Facility Contact:
Mailing Address:
Phone Number:
Fax Number:
E-mail address:
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Receiving Stream
Stream Class:
Basin:
Sub -Basin:
Number of Outfalls:
ROANOKE RIVER
WS-IV
Roanoke River Basin
03-02-08
Wilbur G. Kessinaer, Jr.
252-533-6000
bill.kessinger@kaystonepaper.com
Neal R. Davis
100 Gaston Road
Roanoke Rapids, NC 27870
252-533-6295
neal.davis®kapstonepaper.com
Impaired Waters DL
Does this facility discharge to waters listed as impaired or waters with a finalized TM DL? l] Yes ❑ No ® Don't Know
( for information on these waters refer to http://h2o.enr.state.nc.us/su/Impaired Waters TMDL/ )
CERTIFICATION
1 certify that I am familiar with the information contained in the application and that to the best of my knowledge and belief such
information is true, complete and accurate.
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40 Stormwater Permitting Program
Please return this completed renewal application form Individual Permit Renewal
and other required supplemental information to: 1612 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699.1612
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STORMWATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN
DEVELOPMENT ANDJMPLEMENTATION
CERTIFICATION
North Carolina Division of Energy, Mineral, and Land Resources - Stormwater Permitting
Facility Name:
Roanoke Rapids Mill
Permit Number:
NCS000106
Location Address:
100 Gaston Rd
Roanoke Rapids, NC 27870
County:
Halifax
"1 certify, under penalty of law, that the Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SPPP) document and all attachments were developed and
implemented under my direction or supervision in accordance with a system designed to assure that qualified personnel properly gather
and evaluate the information required by the SPPP. Based on my inquiry of the person or persons who manage the system, or those persons
directly responsible for gathering the information, the information gathered is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true, accurate and
complete."
And
I certify that the SPPP has been developed, signed and retained at, the named facility location, and the SPPP has been fully implemented at
this facility location in accordance with the terms and conditions of the stormwater.discharge permit"
®And
"1 am aware that there are significant penalties for falsifying information, including the possibility of fines and imprisonment for knowing
violations."
Sign (according to permit signatory requirements) and return this Certification. DO NOT SEND
STORMWATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN WITH THIS CERTIFICATION.
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SPPP Certification 10/13
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR RENEWAL OF INDIVIDUAL NPDES
STORMWATER PERMIT
®Two copies of each of the following shall accompany this submittal in order for the application to be
considered complete:
(Do not submit the site Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan)
Initials
NRD 1. A current Site Map from the Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan. The location of
industrial activities (including storage of materials, disposal areas, process areas and
loading and unloading areas), drainage structures, drainage areas for each outfall,
building locations and impervious surfaces should be clearly noted.
NRD 2. A summary of Analytical Monitoring results during the term of the existing permit (if your
permit required analytical sampling). Do not submit individual lab reports. The summary
can consist of a table including such items as outfall number, parameters sampled, lab
results, date sampled, and storm event data. H
NRD 3. A summary of the Visual Monitoring results. Do not submit individual monitoring reports.
The summary can consist of a table including such items as outfall number, parameters
surveyed, observations, and date monitoring conducted.
NRD 4. A summary of the Best Management Practices utilized at the permitted facility. Summary
® should consist of a short narrative description of each BMP's in place at the facility. If the
implementation of any BMP's is planned, please include information on these BMP's.
NRD 5. A short narrative describing any significant changes in industrial activities at the permitted
facility. Significant changes could include the addition or deletion of work processes,
changes in material handling practices, changes in material storage practices, and/or
changes in the raw materials used by the facility.
NRD 6. Certification of the development and implementation of a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan
for the permitted facility (Sign and return attached form).
If the final year analytical monitoring of the existing permit term has not been completed prior
to filing the renewal submittal, then the last years monitoring results should be submitted within 30
days of receipt of the laboratory reports. (i.e. do not withhold renewal submittal waiting on lab results)
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December 12, 2013
Stormwater Permitting Program
Individual Permit Renewal
1612 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1612
KAPSTONE
KRAFT PAPER CORPORATION
A Division of KAPSTONE PAPER AND PACKAGING CORPORATION
100 Gaston Road Roanake Rapids, NC 27870
252.533,6000 fax: 252,533.6401 KAPSTONEPAPER.com
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DEC 1 9 2013
DENR - WATER QUALITY
WETLANDS AND STORMINATERBRANCH
Re: Stormwater Discharge Permit Renewal, KapStone Kraft Paper Corporation, Roanoke
Rapids NC, NCS000106.
Mr. Bradley Bennett;
Kapstone Kraft Paper Corporation in Roanoke Rapids, NC is requesting renewal of their
NPDES stormwater permit NCS 000106. Enclosed you will find three copies of the
Renewal Application and the Supplemental Information that was requested for renewal.
If there are any questions or concerns. I can be reached by phone at 252-533-6295.
Sincerely, mz
Neal R. Davis
Environmental Engineer
KapStone Kraft Paper Corporation
Roanoke Rapids, NC
Enclosures
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100 Gaston Road
Roanoke Rapids, NC 27870
NPDES Stormwater Permit Coverage Renewal Request
Roanoke Rapids Mill
Permit Number
NCS000106
Halifax County
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STORMWATER PERMIT NCS 000106
OUTFALL: TENT
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BENCH MARK
DATE COLLECTED TOTAL FLOW
MG
120
COD
mg/I
100
TSS
mg/I
2
TOTAL PHOSPHORUS
mg/I
0.03
TOTAL LEAD
mg/I
6-9 30
Ph OIL & GREASE
Standard mg/I
2009
9/22/2009
0.138
13
31
0.064
< 0.010
6.25
< 5
2010
7/10/2010
0.062
28
23
0.093
< 0.010
7
< 5
10/25/2010
0.173
24
15
0.076
< 0.010
6.9
< 5
2011
5/23/2011
0.086
57
19
0.037
< 0.010
6.9
< 5
9/21/2011
0.0498
< 15
5
0.04
< 0.010
7.3
< 5
2012
5/30/2012
0.909
94
100
0.894
< 0.010
6.5
< 5
11/27/2012
0.104
23
15
0.156
< 0.010
6.7
< 5
2013
6/17/2013
0.0589
30
15
< 0.020
< 0.010
6.9
< 5
11/7/2013
0.665
19
36
0.052
< 0.010
7.4
< 5
KAPSTO RAFT PAPER CORP.
100 GASW ROAD, ROANOKE RAPIDS, NC
STORMWATER PERMIT NCS 000106
SUMMARY OF VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
DATE
COLOR
ODOR
CLARITY
FLOATING SOLIDS
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
FOAM
OIL SHEEN
TENT
9/22/2009
LITE TAN
NONE
TURBID
LEAVES
CLEAR
NONE
NONE
STOREROOM
TAN
NONE
TURBID
LEAVES
CLEAR
NONE
NONE
7/10/2010
TENT
LITE TAN
NONE
VERY GOOD
LEAVES
NONE
NO
NO
STOREROOM
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
10/25/2010
TENT
LITE BROWN
NONE
GOOD
FEW LEAVES
FEW BLACK FLECS
NO
NO
STOREROOM
LITE GRAY
NONE
GOOD
NONE
SLIGHTLYTURBID
NO
NO
EROSION CONTROL DEVICES PUT IN PLACE DECEMBER 2010
5/23/2011
TENT
VERY LITE TAN
NONE
CLEAR
FLOWER PETALS
SMALL SPECS LEAVES
NO
NO
STOREROOM
LITE GRAY
NO
GOOD
FEW TWIGS AN LEAVES
FINE DUST
NO
NO
MAY 16 - 19 REPLACED CHECK DAMS AND RAKED OUT 57 STONE
9/21/2011
TENT
LITE TAN NONE
OPAQUE
SPARSE LEAVES
PARTICLE SPECS
NO
NO
STOREROOM
TAN NONE
MUDDY
NONE
YES SILT
NO
NO
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April 23 2012 I Performed maintenance on Stormwater BMP Removed 57 stone and replaced around drains and discharge
May 14, 2012 Facility Stormwatert Inspection
4/30/2012
TENT
LITE TAN
NONE
OPAQUE
PIECES OF LEAVES
YES
NO
NO
STOREROOM
NONE
NONE
LITTLE COLOR
NONE
NONE
NO
NO
AUG. 25, 2012
MILL FLOODED 11.5 INCH RAIN IN ABOUT4.5 HOURS. PHOTOS
OCTOBER 1, 2012 REPLACED EROSION CONTROL DEVICES REMOVED FROM FLOOD
11/27/2012
TENT
LITE TAN
NONE OPAQUE
LEAVES
SMALL PARTICLES
NO
NO
STOREROOM
LITE GRAY
NONE OPAQUE
LEAVES
LIGHT
NO
NO
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March 28,2012
Stormwater Inspection Replaced Rip Rap in Ditches and 57 stone around drains in Trailer Yard, Scale House and Storeroom
6/17/2013
TENT
LIGHTTAN NONE OPAQUE
NONE VISIBLE
SOME
NO
NO
STOREROOM
CLEAR NONE LITE SCUM
NONE VISIBLE
NONE VISIBLE
NO
NO
7/18/2013IPAINTED
AND REPAINTED DRIANSTO STORMWATER BLUE, SUMMER CALL BOARD
® Preventive Maintenance and Good Housekeeping Program
The KapStone Kraft Paper Corporation facility (KapStone) is located at 100 Gaston Road,
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina approximately 1 mile west of Interstate 95. Approximate
facility coordinates are 36-28-30 N and 77-38-30 W. The site is located directly along the
Roanoke River and functions under NPDES Stormwater Permit NCS000106. KapStone
produces bulk rolls of unbleached paper from pine round wood and purchased chips.
The mill is adjacent to, and generally drains to the Roanoke River through three major sub -
basins.
The largest sub -basin contains about 155.8 acres, and includes: the pulp mill, paper
mill, the wood yard, supporting facilities, and the north portion of a gravel trailer yard.
The entire sub -basin drains to the mill's wastewater treatment facility. Petroleum
products and chemicals are stored in this area. Petroleum products on site include tall
oil, diesel fuel, #6 fuel oil, hydraulic oil, and lubricants. Chemicals include, but are
not limited to, sulfuric acid, caustic, defoamers, and sodium hypochlorite. Storage
tanks are surrounded by containment.
2. An area of appproximately 0.97 acres known as the "Storeroom" Sub -Basin located
north of the storeroom drains directly into the Roanoke River. There are no
manufacturing processes in this area. Best Management Practice activities in
December 2010, installed block and gravel at this discharge to the river.
3. The third sub -basin drainage area consists of the mill's employee parking, main office,
maintenance shop, shipping building, the south gravel trailer yard and truck scales.
This area contains about 12.75 acres and drains generally south to a series of
stormwater conveyance pipes and ditches and is known as the "Tent" Sub -Basin.
Run-off from this system was untreated until December 2010, when the Tent Sub -
Basin received additional Best Management Practices. These were submitted and
approved by the state and include block and gravel at two inlets, and check dams and
silt fences along the open ditches. This discharge area combines with a larger
stormwater drainage area of approximately 770 acres from the City of Roanoke
Rapids.
Based on observations, the areas within the Tent Sub -Basin that would be most likely
to contribute to any water quality issues would be the south gravel trailer yard and the
roads running through and around the basin.
Loading and Unloading Activities
Oil and chemicals are located in storage tanks within the mill. A map of their locations is
contained within the Stormwater Plan and the Emergency Action Plan. The chemical tanks
are filled from rail -cars or tractor -trailers. The unloading points are on concrete pads that
® drain to our process sewer in case of any spills. All chemical tanks are on concrete pads that
drain to the process sewer or within concrete containment areas. These containment areas
have locked valves that also drain to the process sewer. They are inspected once a week and
after a rain event. Records of these inspections are kept in the Containment Log and are part
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Best Management Plan
In July of 2010, a Stormwater Best Management Plan was submitted to the North Carolina
Division of Water Quality. The Study was conducted by Eco Engineering a Division of John
McAdams Company, Durham, NC. Approval from the NCDENR was received on August
26, 2010.
A copy of the manual as submitted is maintained in Neal Davis' EHS Office.
Erosion Control devices were installed December of 2010
Stormwater Erosion Control Devices Installed
• Check Dams were put in the large ditches surrounding the Scale House.
• A 6-inch layer of 57-stone was placed around the parameter of the ditches. The stone
is cleaned and/or replaced as needed.
• Grass was allowed to grow lining the ditches.
• Erosion Control measures were constructed in the Trailer Yard.
o The existing drain was raised 16 inches using concrete block. The block was
surrounded with 57-stone. The stone is cleaned and/or replaced as needed.
o A chain was also installed to keep vehicles out of the area.
® • A check dam of Railroad blast was installed at the Storeroom discharge along with 57-
stone for better filtration. The stone is cleaned and/or replaced as needed.
Environmental Awareness Training is conducted annually for each employee of KapStone
Kraft Paper Corporation, Roanoke Rapids.. A signed copy of the Check for Understanding is
kept on file in the EHS trailer. The Environmental training slides are in a tab in the
Stormwater Plan.
KapStone Roanoke Rapids has a Hazardous Materials Team that receives 32 hours of training
annually. Eight hours are Technician Level Training.
As part of the mill's Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure Plan and the Facility
Response Plan, two boats are maintained on -site with outboard motors and 1,000 feet of
boom.
In Case of Spill:
Mill Personnel are trained to immediately attempt to stop or control the source of a spill. The
mill's Emergency Response Team will take measures to contain and clean up any spilled
materials utilizing the adsorbent materials stored in the hazmat truck. Since bulk storage
containers are located outside, particular attention is paid to protecting the drainage pathways
in the direction of the spill. Use of material to dike, dam or divert the spill may also be used if
necessary to prevent the spill from entering the storm drain. Incident and response activities
40 are documented.
All but 13.7 acres of the Roanoke Rapids Mill Facility drains to the mill's Wastewater
Treatment Plant. The mill has also deployed erosion control devices in the 13.7 acres that
could be exposed to stormwater.
® of the Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure Plan. An electronic copy of the log
location: S: drive\Groups\EOHS\EOHS\2013 Containment Log SPCC & Stormwater
Tote bins of chemicals are stored at the Paper mill Spra White slab. Empty tote bins are also
stored on the cement slab West side of the Paper mill, directly south of the Spra White slab.
All of these locations drain to the wastewater treatment plant.
Outdoor Process Areas
Logs, Bark, Chips, and Sawdust are brought into the mill through the Scale house and stored
on the mill site and transported around the mill pneumatically or on conveyor belts. Logs are
debarked in the debarking drum and cut into chips. The chips are transported to the Pulp Mill
or Chip Storage by conveyor belts to be processed. The sawdust is burned in the boiler. Log
and chip holding areas have drains and ditches around them that carry any run-off to the
Stormwater Holding Pond, which is then pumped to the emergency pond and later returned to
the head of the wastewater plant.
Dust Control Process
A large portion of the Tent Sub -Basin is gravel and dust is controlled by spraying the roads
with river water. The Environmental Programs Department hires a contractor to provide this
service. During dry weather, the roads are sprayed three days a week.
A Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure Plan is contained in the Emergency Action
® Plan. It contains procedural and contact information in case of spills and what response is
recommended. These can be found in the Emergency Management System on the mills
intranet and the EHS trailer.
On Site Vehicle Maintenance Monitoring
Vehicle maintenance is performed on site in what is known as the Truck shop and the
Woodyard Maintenance shop. These areas are enclosed from the weather. Spills are cleaned
up with sawdust. Drains in the buildings go to the process sewer. Waste oil is collected in
drums that are hauled away by a contractor.
General spills from the vehicles and heavy equipment in the mill are cleaned up with sawdust.
The sawdust is then burned in the boiler.
Waste Disposal Practices
The mill has a lined landfill that is permitted for primary clarifier residuals, flyash, and lime
mud. This landfill has two of four phases complete with a footprint of 25 acres. The two
additional phases will be constructed when the current cells near capacity. Leachate from the
landfill is gravity fed to the Aeration Basin of the wastewater treatment facility.
All trash is put into dumpsters located throughout the mill and hauled away by a Contractor.
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KAPSTONE
KAPSTONE
KRAFT PAPER CORPORATION
A DiNsion of KAPSTONE PAPER AND PACKAGING CORPORATION
100 Gaston Road Roanoke Rapids. NC 27870
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To Whom It May Concern;
Kapstone Kraft Paper Corporation has not made any significant changes in the industrial activities
at the Roanoke Rapids facility. The only exposure to stormwater runoff is the 12.5 acres listed in
the permit. Any other areas of the mill that are exposed to stormwater are piped to our Wastewater
Treatment Plant. Permit Number NC0000752.
® Sincerely,
Neal 6avis
Environmental Engineer
Kapstone Kraft Paper Corporation
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WestRock
September 24, 2019
Ms. Lauren Garcia
DEMLR Stormwater Division
Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources
512 North Salisbury St.
1612 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1612
100 Gaston Road
Roanoke Rapids, NC 27870
office: 252.533.6295
neal.davis@ westrock.com
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Ov? 27 2019
DENR-LAND QUALITY
STORMINATER PERMITTING
Subject: KapStone Kraft Paper Corp. / WestRock Kraft Paper LLC
Stormwater Permit NCS000106
Dear Ms. Garcia;
Please note below, comments from KapStone Kraft Paper Corporation/WestRock Kraft Paper, LLC
on the Draft Stormwater Permit dated August 27, 2019, Permit No. NCS000106.
i. In November of 2018, WestRock acquired KapStone Kraft Paper Corporation. WestRock is
in the process of converting KapStone Kraft Paper Corporation from a corporation to a
Limited Liability Company (LLC) and changing the name of the entity to WestRock Kraft
Paper, LLC. The electronic form from the edos.deq.nc.gov website will be submitted for
the storm water permit ownership change. Please change KapStone Kraft Paper
Corporation on the title page of the permit to WestRock Kraft Paper, LLC.
Enclosed is a letter from Thomas M. Sigers, Executive Vice President, WestRock, which
delegates authority for environmental matters for the Roanoke Rapids mill to Ben White,
General Manager (Formerly Mill Manager under KapStone).
Page 8 of 29 Footnote 3: We have an email from Ken Pickle dated June 11, 2009, granting
ROS status to a stormwater outfall on the site which is behind our storeroom. A copy of the
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mail is enclosed with this letter.
3. Page 10 of 29: This is a stipulation about Impaired Waters. In the old permit, page 8 of 11,
it is stated that the reason for Roanoke River impaired waters is a mercury Fish Advisory.
In the new permit it declares that "This site discharges to impaired waters experiencing
problems with turbidity, fluoride, nickel, fecal coliform, arsenic, water temperature,
chloride, copper, pH, fish tissue mercury, lead, dissolved oxygen, cadmium, iron and zinc.
WestRock takes issue with this.
WestRock
Michael E. Knudson
Environmental Manager
100 Gaston Road direct 252-533 6280
Roanoke Rapids, INC 27870 mobile: 252-326 5288
westrack.com mike. knudson®westrock.com
At the ncdenr.maps website that you referenced in your September 20, 2019, email,
"Impaired" is not mentioned. The Roanoke River, downstream of the Roanoke River Dam,
is classified Gray and states: "There are only data inclusive assessments or at least one
pathogen assessment is data inconclusive (except for Mercury in Fish Tissue). The website
map shows that the Roanoke River continues Gray all the way to the Albermarie Sound.
WestRock objects to labeling the Roanoke River as impaired in the permit for all these
parameters when the official NCDENR website does not. Please only note mercury in this
stipulation, which is consistent with the old permit as well as State and EPA determinations.
If there are any question or concerns please contact Neal Davis at neal.davis(u,westrock.com or
252-533-6295
Sincerely,
Benjamin P. White, General Manager
WestRock Kraft Paper LLC
100 Gaston Road
Roanoke Rapids, NC 27850
Enclosure
Copies: Neal Davis
Danny Smith (RRO)
�OestRock
DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS
CONTAINERBOARD MILLS
As Executive Vice President of Containerboard Mills, I hereby ratify and confirm the authority
of each General Manager (GM) and Designated Representative (DR) listed below to act as
the responsible official and/or the duly authorized representative for the purpose of overseeing
environmental compliance matters at the facility(ies) he manages (Covered Facilities). This
Delegation of Authority includes, without limitation, the authority to execute and submit all
environmental applications, certifications and reports required by the Covered Facilities, as
well as the authority to act with respect to facilities in the U.S. as the °responsible official" as
that term is defined at 40 C.F.R. § 70.2 and corresponding U.S. federal, state and local agency
regulations.
To the extent allowed by applicable law, the GM or DR may re -delegate this authority, in
writing, to any appropriately trained facility manager for the specific purpose of executing any
monthly discharge monitoring or similar wastewater report that may be required under a
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) or comparable state or local
wastewater discharge permit.
This Delegation of Aut y will rem in in effect until revoked or superseded.
Thomas M. Stigers
Executive Vice Pr ident, Containerboard Mills
WestRock
Effective Date: September 9, 2019
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From: Pickle, Ken (ken.pickle®ncdenr.gov]
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:36 PM
To: Ransmeier, MARY
Cc: myd.nisely®ncmail.net; Davis, Neal; Bennett, Bradley; Lowther, Brian
Subject: RE: KapStone Kraft NCS000106
Dear Ms. Ransmeier,
Thanks for being available on such short notice for our unscheduled visit. It really helps the permitters when
we can see the site conditions. Based on your note, we are in agreement as to the Storeroom Outfall and as to the
sample point for the Tent Outfall. I've re -stated below your points just to confirm our agreement on them; please
contact us if I have missed any minor point.
I have relayed our conversation and my observations at Kapstone to your permit writer, Brian Lowther, and to
our supervisor, Bradley Bennett. Please take this note as written confirmation of certain comments I made while on
your site. Specifically, as to your current coverage under the expired individual permit, NCS000106, you are authorized
for Representative Outfall Status from this time forward. DWQ will consider the Tent Outfall representative of the
stormwater discharges from both the Tent Outfall and the Storeroom Outfall, until and unless significant changes in on -
site activities suggest that the Representative Outfall Status is no longer appropriate. Scheduled analytical samples
need only be taken for the Tent Outfall. Visual monitoring is to be continued at both outfalls. Further, we are in
agreement with the relocation of the sample point for flows from the Tent Outfall to a location further downstream
than previously located. As you note and as we discussed, the new location will be close to, but still upstream of the
junction with the large flows from off site, i.e. the city stormwater flows.
As to provisions in the pending renewed permit, we intend that the Representative Outfall Status will continue
for the Tent Outfall, and we will so note in the transmittal letter that will accompany the renewed permit.
Administratively it has been our practice to address the granting of Representative Oufall Status by separate letter
outside of the permit text, and we propose to continue that practice if you do not object. Similarly, on large and
complicated sites we typically do not direct the exact location of stormwater sampling, unless we see a need to. We are
in agreement with the current proposed location further downstream, and are agreeable for that location to be
continued under the renewed permit. Please contact us for concurrence if you subsequently judge that another location
might be more representative of the stormwater flows from your site.
Ken Pickle
DWQ Stormwater Permitting Unit
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NC Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources
Review for Permit — NCS000106
Kapstone Kraft Paper Corporation
Facility Activities and Processes:
• SIC Code 2621— Paper Mills
• The facility has a WWTP onsite (NC0000752): limits for BOD, conductivity, copper, DO, flow, TN,
ammonia, Ceriodaphnia, pentachlorophenol, pH, TP, TSS, temp, trichlorophenol.
• The mill is an integrated pulp and paper mill producing unbleached Kraft paper before
packaging.
• 2009 Staff Report: The Lowground SW sampling point is currently in permit held by Capstone
Paper. In the renewal application they requested removal of the Lowground point because
Kapstone no longer is the owner, nut IP is. An email from Myrtl Nisely of the RRO that based on
his knowledge of the site and from occasional observations in the last couple years, as well as
conversations with the Environmental Staff at the paper mill he recommends that the closed
Lowground Landfill not rpq jiy ra a permit. There is no ind st_ riaArr y ry ar rh cation. isolated
at "the back 40" of the paper mill property. The site is everywhere heavily vegetated, and the
capping materials soak rain so well that there has never been any waterfrom the turtle backed
top surface. Any water observed at the toe of the landfill travels through vegetation and is like
wise absorbed before it is able to collect at one corner, from which point it would go through a
culvert in to a channel to the Roanoke River. Even in heavy rain, there is no flow at the
downstream end of the culvert. Therefore, Myrl supports the contention of IP that application
for a stormwater permit for the Lowground is unnecessary.
• On June 23, 2006 Kapstone Paper, through its wholly -owned subsidiary, Kapstone Kraft Paper
Corporation, agreed to purchase the Kraft Papers Business of International Paper Company. The
business consists of an unbleached Kraft Paper manufacturing facility in Roanoke Rapids, NC and
Ride Rite Converting, an inflatable dunnage bag manufacturer. Kraft Paper produces over 300
unbleached and bleached grade types available that offer best -in -class printability, strength,
coatings, and specialized performance characteristics: Multiwall, converting and bag & sack.
• Facility produces grocery bags, concrete bags, and lining for boxes. Bring in logs and wood chips.
Monitoring Information:
• 2009 Staff Report: The visual monitoring shows colors that include brown, tan, gray and orange.
The clarity is often opaque or turbid. There are some suspended solids and others signs of
pollution at the outfalls.
The • lity_hasaa_historyof COD, TSS, Phosphorus, and Lead benchmark exceedances at all
out T_ � _
• The mill is adjacent to the Roanoke River and generally drains to the Roanoke River through
three major sub_has ns The largest sub -basin which includes the actual paper_m _waod_chip
piles and portions of thQ_yard" area drains into the mill's wastewater treatment plant. A small
north portion of the mill site drains untreated directly into the Roanoke River. This sub -basin is
known as the "Storeroom" sub -basin. The third sub -basin drainage area consist of the mill's
employee parking, main office, maintenance shop, shipping building, trailer parking area, and
the truck scales. This area drains generally south to a series of stormwater conveyance pipes
and ditches and is known as the "Tent" sub -basin. Runoff from this system is untreated and
combines with a larger drainage area from the City of Roanoke Rapids before flowing into the
Roanoke River.
Impairment:
• This site discharges to the Roanoke River, an impaired waters experiencing problems with
turbidity, fluoride, nickel, fecal coliform, arsenic, water temperature, chloride, copper, pH, fish
tissue mercury, lead, dissolved oxygen, cadmium, iron, and zinc.