NC0061930_Renewal (Application)_20220707

ROY COOPER
Covemor
ELIZABETH S. BISER
Secretary
RICHARD E. ROGERS, JR.
Director
Mark Lauren Homeowner's Association
Attn: Ronnie Waller, Board Member
PO Box 155
Highlands, NC 28741
Subject: Permit Renewal
Application No. NCO061930
Mark Laurel WWTP
Macon County
Dear Applicant:
NORTH CAROLINA
Environmental Quality
July 13, 2022
The Water Quality Permitting Section acknowledges the July 7, 2022 receipt of your permit renewal application and
supporting documentation. Your application will be assigned to a permit writer within the Section's NPDES WW permitting
branch. Per G.S. 150E-3 your current permit does not expire until permit decision on the application is made.
Continuation of the current permit is contingent on timely and sufficient application for renewal of the current permit. The
permit writer will contact you if additional information is required to complete your permit renewal. Please respond in a
timely manner to requests for additional information necessary to allow a complete review of the application and renewal
of the permit.
Information regarding the status of your renewal application can be found online using the Department of Environmental
Quality's Environmental Application Tracker at:
https•//deq nc aov/permits-regulations/permit-guidance/environmental-application-tracker
If you have any additional questions about the permit, please contact the primary reviewer of the application using the
links available within the Application Tracker.
9;ko
Administrative Assistant
Water Quality Permitting Section
cc: Mark Teague -Environmental, Inc.
ec: WQPS Laserfiche File w/application
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality I Division of Water Resources
D_E AshevNe Regional Office 12090 US. Highway 70 I Swannanoo. North Carolina 28778
828296.4500

North Carolina
Department of Environmental Quality Modified Application Form 2A
Division of Water Resources Revised March 2021
Modified Application
Form 2A
Minor Sewage Facilities < 0.1 MGD
and No Pretreatment Program
NPDES Permitting Program
Note: Complete this form if your facility is a MINOR new or existing publicly owned treatment works.

NPDES Permit Number Facility Name
Moddied Application Form 2A
NModified
March 2021
Form
NC Department of Environmental Quality - Application for NPDES Permit to Discharge Wastewater
MINOR SEWAGE FACILITIES (Before completing this form, please read the instructions. Failure to follow
NPDES
the instructions ma result in denial of the application)
SECTION•N
INFORMATION FOR i
1.1
Facility name
Mart t.aurLt
Mailing address (street or P.O. box)
City or town
State
ZIP code
1-ki o�id5
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a89AA
Contact name (firsYand last)
Title
Phone number
Email address
romie-dwail
Location address (street, route number, or other specific identifier) ❑ Same as mailing address
City or town
State
ZIP code
1.2
Is this application a facility that has yet to commence discharge?
❑ Yes 4 See instructions on data submission No
requirements for new dischargers.
1.3
Is applicant different from entity listed under Item 1.1 above?
❑ Yes ( No 4 SKIP to Item 1.4.
Applicant name
Applicant address (street or P.O. box)
City or town
State
ZIP code
Contact name (first and last)
Title
Phone number
Email address
1.4
Is the applicant the facility's owner, operator, or both? (Check only one response.)
Owner ❑ Operator ❑ Both
1.5
To which entity should the NPDES permitting authority send correspondence? (Check only one response.)
❑ Facility ❑ Applicant Facility and applicant
(they are one and the same)
1.6
Indicate below any existing environmental permits. (Check all that apply and print or type the corresponding permit
number for each.
Existing Environmental Permits.
NPDES (discharges to surface
❑ RCRA (hazardous waste)
❑ UIC (underground injection
water
control)
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❑ PSD (air emissions)
❑ Nonattainment program (CAA)
❑ NESHAPs (CAA)
❑ Ocean dumping (MPRSA)
❑ Dredge or fill (CWA Section
❑ Other (specify)
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NPDES Permit Number Facility Name Modified Application Form 2A
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1.7
Provide the collections
stem information
requested below for the treatment works.
Municipality
Population
Collection System Type
Ownership Status
Served
Served
indicate percentage)
% separate sanitary sewer
Own ❑ Maintain
m�
% combined storm and sanitary sewer
❑ Own ❑ Maintain
❑ Unknown
❑ Own ❑ Maintain
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% separate sanitary sewer
[I Own El Maintain
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% combined storm and sanitary sewer
❑ Own ❑ Maintain
❑ Unknown
❑ Own ❑ Maintain
a%
separate sanitary sewer
❑ Own ❑ Maintain
o
% combined storm and sanitary sewer
❑ Own ❑ Maintain
❑ Unknown
❑ Own ❑ Maintain
% separate sanitary sewer
❑ Own ❑ Maintain
% combined storm and sanitary sewer
❑ Own ❑ Maintain
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.Total Populationi%rServed ANN"""
lSeparate
Sanitary Sewer System
Sanitary Sewer
Total percentage of each type of
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Now—D 070
sewer line in miles
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1.8
Is the treatment works located in Indian Country?
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❑ Yes No
a1.9
Does the facility discharge to a receiving water that flows through Indian Country?
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❑ Yes &No
1.10
Provide design and actual flow rates in the designated spaces.
Design Flow Rate
DIPLAa mgd
Annual Average Flow Rates(Actual)
nTwo
Years Ago
Last Year
This Year
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mgd
mgd
mgd
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Maximum Daily Flow Rates Actual
d
Two Years Ago
Last Year
This Year
mgd
0. O mgd
mgd
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1.1 ",
Provide the total number of effluent discharge points to waters of the State of North Carolina by type.
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Total Number of Effluent Discha a Points b Type
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Constructed
0 >.
Treated Effluent
Untreated Effluent
Combined Sewer
Bypasses
Emergency
9.
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Overflows
Overflows
Pace �

NPDES Permit Number Facility Name Modified Application Form 2A
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Modified March 2021
Outfalls Other Than to Waters of the State of North Carolina
1.12
Does the POTW discharge wastewater to basins, ponds, or other surface impoundments that do not have outlets
for discharge to waters of the State of North Carolina?
❑ Yes V No 4 SKIP to Item 1.14.
1.13
Provide the location of each surface impoundment and associated discharge information in the table below.
Surface Im oundment Location and Dischar a Data
Average Daily Volume
Continuous or Intermittent
Location
Discharged to Surface
(check one}
Impoundment
❑ Continuous
gpd
❑ Intermittent
❑ Continuous
gpd
❑ Intermittent
❑ Continuous
gpd
y
❑ Intermittent
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1.14
Is wastewater applied to land?
❑ Yes No 4 SKIP to Item 1.16.
1.15
Provide the land application site and discharge data requested below.
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Land Application Site and Discharge Data
N
n
Average Daily Volume
Continuous or
as
Location
Size
Applied
Intermittent
check one
v
acres
gpd
❑ Continuous
0
❑ Intermittent
❑ Continuous
sacres
,.
gpd
❑ Intermittent
0
Macres
gpd
❑ Continuous
❑ Intermittent
1.16
Is effluent transported to another facility for treatment prio to discharge?
❑ Yes No 4 SKIP to Item 1.21.
0
1.17
Describe the means by which the effluent is transported (e.g., tank truck, pipe).
1.18
Is the effluent transported by a party other than the applicant?
❑ Yes ❑ No + SKIP to Item 1.20.
1.19
Provide information on the transporter below.
Trans orter Data
Entity name
Mailing address (street or P.O. box)
City or town
State
ZIP code
Contact name (first and last)
Title
Phone number
Email address
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NPDES Permit Number Facility Name Modified Application Form 2A
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1.20
In the table below, indicate the name, address, contact information, NPDES number, and average daily flow rate of the
receiving facility.
Receiving F cility Data
Facility name
Mailing address (street or P.O. box)
4)
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City or town
State
ZIP code
0
Contact name (first and last)
Title
0
Z
Phone number
Email address
aNPDES
number of receiving facility (if any) ❑ None
Average daily flow rate mgd
m
0
1.21
Is the wastewater disposed of in a manner other than those already mentioned in Items 1.14 through 1.21 that do
0
not have outlets to waters of the State of North Carolina (e.g., underground percolation, underground injection)?
W
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❑ Yes No 4 SKIP to Item 1.23.
V
0
1.22
Provide information in the table below on these other disposal methods.
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Information on Other Disposal Methods
Disposal
Location of
Size of
Annual Average
Continuous or Intermittent
a
Method
Disposal Site
Disposal Site
Daily Discharge
(check one)
R
Description
Volume
acres
9Pd
El
❑ Intermittent
o
ElContinuous
acres
gpd
❑ Intermittent
acres
gpd
❑ Continuous
❑ Intermittent
1.23
Do you intend to request or renew one or more of the variances authorized at 40 CFR 122.21(n)? (Check all that apply.
Consult with your NPDES permitting authority to determine what information needs to be submitted and when.)
c m
Discharges into marine waters (CWA ❑ Water quality related effluent limitation (CWA Section
❑ Section 301(h)) 302(b)(2))
Not applicable
1.24
Are any operational or maintenance aspects (related to wastewater treatment and effluent quality) of the treatment works
the responsibility of a contractor?
j�Yes _ Jo 4SKIP to Section 2.
1.25
Provide location and contact information for each contractor in addition to a description of the contractor's operational
and maintenance responsibilities.
Contractor Information
Contractor 1
Contractor 2
Contractor 3
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Conuactor name
(company name
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Mailing address
(yN X n
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street or P.O. box
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City, state, and ZIP
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code
Contact name (first and
last
AOL
Phone number
lA J%
Email address
erwi n
®ail•
Operational and
maintenance
responsibilities of
contractor
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NPDES Permit Number
M a0 LQ is
Facility Name
A/Uil Laurel
Modified Application Form 2A
Modified March 2021
SECTION
2. ADDITIONAL .• t ,
Outfails to Waters of the State of North Carolina
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2.1
Does the treatment works have a design flow greater than or equal to 0.1 mgd?
c
❑ Yes 12/ No 4 SKIP to Section 3.
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2.2
Provide the treatment works' current average daily volume of inflow
Average Daily Volume of inflow and Infiltration
and infiltration.
9Pd
Indicate the steps the facility is taking to minimize inflow and infiltration.
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3
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2.3
Have you attached a topographic map to this application that contains all the required information? (See instructions for
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specific requirements.)
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❑ Yes ❑ No
E
2.4
Have you attached a process flow diagram or schematic to this application that contains all the required information?
!2
m
(See instructions for specific requirements.)
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❑ Yes ❑ No
2.5
Are improvements to the facility scheduled?
❑ Yes ❑ No 4 SKIP to Section 3.
Briefly list and describe the scheduled improvements.
1.
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2.
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3.
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2.6
Provide scheduled or actual dates of completion for improvements.
Scheduled
or Actual Dates of Completion for Im rovements
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Scheduled
Affected
Begin
End
Begin
Attainment of
>
o
Q.
Improvement
Qutfalls
(list outfall
Construction
Construction
Discharge
Operational
Level
(from above)
number
(MMIDD/YYYY)
(MM/DD/YYYY)
(MM/DD,YYYY)
MM/DD/YYYY
a�
a�
s
2.
3.
4.
2.7
Have appropriate permits/clearances concerning other federal/state requirements been obtained? Briefly explain your
response.
❑ Yes ❑ No ❑ None required or applicable
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Explanation:
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NPDES Permit Number Facility Name Modified Application Form 2A
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SECTION••
• ON 1 1
Provide the following information for each outfall. (Attach additional sheets if you have more than three outfalls.)
3.1
Outfall Number W1
Outfall Number
Outfall Number
State
pr+K C,cozil
County
morm
0
0
City or town
c
Distance from shore
ft.
ft.
ft.
w
Depth below surface
ft.
ft.
ft.
c
Average daily flow rate
mgd
mgd
mgd
Latitude
3 o2 54 "' 1'�3
° "
°
Longitude
$' ILA " 01"VV
3.2
Do any of the outfalls described under Item 3.1 have seasonal or periodic discharges?
a
❑ Yes [� No 4 SKIP to Item 3.4.
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3.3
If so, provide the following information for each applicable outfall.
P 9 � PP
s
A
Outfall Number
Outfall Number
Outfall Number
0
Number of times per year
tj
tj
discharge occurs
a
Average duration of each
o
discharge (specify units
Average flow of each
mgd
mgd
mgd
y
discharge
Months in which discharge
occurs
3.4
Are any of the ouffalls listed under Item 3.1 equipped with a diffuser?
No 4 SKIP to Item 3.6.
❑ Yes
3.5
Briefly describe the diffuser type at each applicable outfall.
®
Outfall Number
Outfall Number
Outfall Number
N
0
Does the treatment works discharge or plan to discharge wastewater to waters of the State of North Carolina from
y=
3.6
one or more discharge points?
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3 y'
V Yes ❑ No 4SKIP to Section 6.
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NPDES Permit Number Facility Name Modified Application Form 2A
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3.7
Provide the receiving water and
related information if known
for each outfall.
Outfall Number=
Outfall Number
Outfall! Number
Ect-�VvorKUexk1
Receiving water name
rr
Name of watershed, river,
SaVc�ilrl�.
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S.
or stream system
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U.S. Soil Conservation
Service 14-digit watershed
code
Name of state
management/river basin
%tv- h
-
-':
U.S. Geological Survey
8-digit hydrologic
cataloging unit code
Critical low flow (acute)
cfs
cfs
cfs
Critical low flow (chronic)
cfs
cfs
cfs
Total hardness at critical
low flow
mg/L of
CaCO3
mg/L of
CaCO3
mg/L of
CaCO3
3.8
Provide the following information
describing the treatment pr
vided for discharges from each
outfall.
Outfall Number 0 Q(
Outfall Number
Outfall] Number
Highest Level of
Treatment (check all that
Primary
❑ Equivalent to
❑ Primary
❑ Equivalent to
❑ Primary
❑ Equivalent to
apply per outfall)
secondary
secondary
secondary
❑ Secondary
❑ Secondary
❑ Secondary
❑ Advanced
❑ Advanced
❑ Advanced
❑ Other (specify)
❑ Other (specify)
❑ Other (specify)
Design Removal Rates by
Outfall
BOD5 or CBOD5
%
%
%
TSS
%
%
%
❑ Not applicable
❑ Not applicable
❑ Not applicable
Phosphorus
❑ Not applicable
❑ Not applicable
❑ Not applicable
Nitrogen
%
%
%
Other (specify)
❑ Not applicable
❑ Not applicable
❑ Not applicable
%
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NPDES Permit Numberi Facility Name
Modified Application Form 2A
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4 Modified March 2021
3.9
Describe the type of disinfection used for the effluent from each outfall in the table below. If disinfection varies by
season, describe below.
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Outfall Number_
Outfall Number
£futfall Nub
Disinfection type
�kv 1i9-:11,
Seasons used
Ccx* ni v
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Dechlorination used?
Not applicable
❑ Not applicable
❑ Not applicable
❑ Yes
❑ Yes
❑ Yes
Lj No
❑ No
❑ No
3.10
Have you completed monitoring for all Table A parameters and attached the results to the application package?
Yes ❑ No
3.11
Have you conducted any WET tests during the 4.5 years prior to the date of the application on any of the facility's
discharges or on any receiving water near the discharge points?
'
❑ Yes No 4 SKIP to Item 3.13.
3.12
Indicate the number of acute and chronic WET tests conducted since the last permit reissuance of the facility's
k`y
discharges by outfall number or of the receiving water near the discharge points.
t3utfail Number'Outfall
Number
Outfall'Number; _
Acute
Chronic
Acute
Chronic
Acute,
Number of tests of discharge
4
water
Number of tests of receiving
water
1,
3.14
Does the use chlorine for ' infection, use chlorine elsewhere in the treatment process, or otherwise have
reasonable potential to discharge chlorine in its effluent?
�,/
❑ Yes 4 Complete Table B, including chlorine. m No + Complete Table B, omitting chlorine.
-
3.15
Have you completed monitoring for all applicable Table B pollutants and attached the results to this application
package?
❑ Yes ❑ No
Have you completed monitoring for all applicable Table D pollutants required by your NPDES permitting authority and
3.18
attached the results to this application package?
No additional sampling required by NPDES
❑ Yes permitting authority.
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NPDES Permit Number Facility Name
Modified Application Form 2A
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_303.19
Cmii(nimum
+ Modified March 2021
Has the POTW conducted either (1) of four quarterly WET tests for one year preceding this permit application
or (2) at least four annual WET tests in the past 4.5 years?
❑ Yes / No 4 Complete tests and Table E and SKIP to
Item 3.26.
3.20
Have you previously submitted the results of the above tests to your NPDES permitting authority?
❑ Yes ❑ No + Provide results in Table E and SKIP to
Item 3.26.
3.21
Indicate the dates the data were submitted to
our NPDES permitting authority and provide a summary of the results.
Date(s) Submitted
Summary of Results
MMQD(YYYY)
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y3.22
Regardless of how you provided your WET testing data to the NPDES permitting authority, did any of the tests result in
o
toxicity?
CO
Y
❑ Yes ❑ No -+ SKIP to Item 3.26.
3.23
Describe the cause(s) of the toxicity:
3
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3.24
Has the treatment works conducted a toxicity reduction evaluation?
❑ Yes ❑ No SKIP to Item 3.26.
3.25
Provide details of any toxicity reduction evaluations conducted.
3.26
Have you completed Table E for all applicable outfails and attached the results to the application package?
V Not applicable because previously submitted
❑ Yes information to the NPDES permitting authority.
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NPDEES PPe//r (__Q ^ /�Numberr � Fadlity Name irEed Application Form 2A
C.. W ILD I ! X) 1 � , 6L tn I I rp M adModified March 2021
6.1
In Column 1 below, mark the sections of Form 2A that you have completed and are submitting with your application. For
each section, specify in Column 2 any attachments that you are enclosing to alert the permitting authority. Note that not
all a Ireants are re u€redo provide, `ac hripr `s
Catumh 2
Section 1 Basic Application
❑ wi vananne request(s) addit€onal attachments
Information for All Applicants
Section 2: Additional
❑ wl topographic map ❑ wf process flow diagram
Information
❑ wi additional attachments
Section 3: Information on
w! Table A ❑ wl Table D
❑ ❑
Effluent Discharges
w1 Table B w/ additional attachments
❑ w? Table C
Section 4. Not Applicable
Section 5: Not Applicable
Section 6: Checklist and
wt attachments
Certification Statement
6.2
Certification Statement
l 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 property 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. t am aware that there are significant penalties for submitting false information, including the possibility of fine
and imprisonment for knowing violations.
Name (print or type last and last name)
Official title
Ronnie waller
Board Member
Signature
Date signed
o--s, �
�p'
r��l.lt.lt, �all.tY
7/7/2022
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NPDES Permit Number Facility Name
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Modified Application Form 2A
Modified March 2021
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Maximum Daily
Value
Discharge Average Daily Discharge
Units Value Units Number of
Samples
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1 " M/) J
Analytical
Method'
ML or MDL
(include units)
_
❑ Mr
,tDL
Pollutant
Bi hemical oxygen demand
ODs or ElCBODs
(report one
I
Fecal coliform
--lO
¢
. C)u
# ILIUMI
6
OML
54DL
Design flow rate
D.
M C L)
Lmllb
"nib
0 C,
O •005
'
M &
0
2-
pH (minimum)
pH (maximum)
Temperature (winter)
U. 4
"+,
r+ -%
Temperature (summer)
2 I•✓
0 G
(P
Total suspended solids (TSS)
l
L
L
62
DL
I Sampling shall be conducted according to sufficiently sensitiveWst procedures (i.e., metnoos) approvea under 4u trm iou tor me anaiybib ui NvuuLanis u, NL)nULaIIL NaI011HU«IO
required under 40 CFR chapter I, subchapter N or 0. See instructions and 40 CFR 122.21(e)(3).
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