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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNC0025461_Special Order by Consent_20000225NPDES DOCUMENT SCANNING COVER SHEET NPDES Permit: NC0025461 Bakersville WWTP Document Type: Permit Issuance Wasteload Allocation Authorization to Construct (AtC) Permit Modification Complete File - Historical Special Order by Consent (SOC) Speculative Limits Instream Assessment (67b) Environmental Assessment (EA) Permit History Document Date: February 25, 2000 This document is priated oa reuse paper - ignore any content oa the resrerse side A771 NCDENR JAMES B. HUNT JR. GOVERNOR BILL HOLMAN SECRETARY KERR T. STEVENS DIRECTOR NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES March 2, 2000 The Honorable Charles E.Vine Town of Bakersville P. O. Box 53 Bakersville NC 28705 Subject: Special Order by Consent EMC WQ 99-008 Town of Bakersville Mitchell County Dear Mayor Vine: DIVISION OF WATER QUALITY PoC,00a 5 to l Attached for your records is a copy of the signed Special Order by Consent approved by the Environmental Management Commission. The terms and conditions of the Order are in full effect, and you are reminded that all final permit limits contained in the permit must be met except those modified by the conditions of the Order. Additionally, as specified in paragraph 2(d) of the Order, submittal of written notice of compliance or non compliance with any schedule date is required to be submitted to this office. Pursuant to amended North Carolina General Statute 143-215.3D, effective January 1, 1999, water quality fees have been revised to include an annual fee for any permit covered under a Special Order by Consent in addition to the annual fee for the permit. The facility will be subject to a fee of $250.00 on a yearly basis while under this order, in addition to an annual NPDES permit fee of $715.00. The facility will be billed for this at a later date. If you have questions concerning this matter, please contact Marcia Lieber at (919) 733-5083 ext. 530. Sincerely, Kerr T. Stevens Attachment: cc: Regional Office, Feille Mike Hom, EPA SOC Files Central Files Jeanne Phillips 1617 MAIL SERVICE CENTER, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA 27696.1617 website: h2o.enr.state.nc.us PHONE 919-733-5083 FAX 919-733-9919 AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY / AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER - 50q RECYCLED/10 POST -CONSUMER PAPER NORTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMMISSION COUNTY OF MITCHELL IN THE MATTER OF ) NORTH CAROLINA NPDES PERMIT NUMBER NC0025461 ) HELD BY TOWN OF BAKERSVILLE SPECIAL ORDER BY CONSENT EMC SOC WQ 99-008 Pursuant to provisions of North Carolina General Statutes (G.S.) 143- 215.2 and 143-215.67, this Special Order by Consent is entered into by the Town of Bakersville, hereinafter referred to as the Town, and the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission, an agency of the State of North Carolina created by G.S. 143B-282, and hereinafter referred to as the Commission: 1. The Town and the Commission hereby stipulate the following: (a) The Town holds North Carolina NPDES Permit Number NC0025461 for operation of an existing wastewater treatment works and for making an outlet therefrom for treated wastewater to Cane Creek, Class C-Trout waters of this State in the French Broad River Basin, but is unable to consistently comply with final effluent limitations for Flow, Biochemical Oxygen Demand, Total Suspended Solids and Fecal Coliform as set forth in NPDES Permit Number NC0025461. Compliance will require preparation of plans and specifications for construction and operation of additional treatment works. (b) Non-compliance with final effluent limitations constitutes causing and contributing to pollution of the waters of this State named above, and the Town is within the jurisdiction of the Commission as set forth in G.S. Chapter 143, Article 21. (c) The Town desires to cause or allow the discharge of 0.01375 MGD of additional wastewater to the treatment works, and the discharge of such additional wastewater will not result in any significant degradation to the quality of any waters. (d) The Town has secured a grant or has otherwise secured financing for planning, design, or construction of a new or improved waste disposal system which, once constructed and operated, will be sufficient to adequately treat wastewater presently being discharged and the additional wastewater desired to be discharged, to the extent the Town will be able to comply with final effluent permit limitations. -1- (e) Since this Special Order is by Consent, neither party will file a petition for a contested case or for judicial review concerning its terms. 2. The Town desiring to comply with the Permit identified in paragraph 1(a) above, hereby agrees to do the following: (a) As settlement of all alleged violations of NPDES Permit NC0025461 prior to entering into this Special Order by Consent, the Town agrees to pay the sum of $3000.00. A certified check must be made payable to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and forwarded to the Director of the Division of Water Quality, 1617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1617 by no later than fifteen (15) days following the date on which this Order is approved and executed by the Commission and received by the Town of Bakersviile. (b) Provide the Asheville Regional Office of the North Carolina Division of Water Quality (DWQ), located at 59 Woodfin Place, Asheville, NC, with a list of all additions of flow under the Town's Special Order by Consent, and update this list each time flow is added to the system. (c) Undertake the following activities in accordance with the indicated time schedule: 1) Apply for project grant funding through DENR High Unit Cost Program on or March 31, 1999. (met) 2) Apply for project grant funding through N.C. Rural Development Center Supplemental Grant Program on or before July 1, 1999. (met) 3) Resubmit application for grant funding through DENR High Unit Cost Program on or before November 30, 1999. (met) 4) Submit NPDES Permit application for expansion of,M c--1 wastewater treatment plant on or before December 31, 1999. 5) Receive notification of HUC and Rural Center GranffMC awards and begin project design on or before February 1, 2000. 6)* Obtain NPDES permit for expanded wastewater discharge, submit Authorization to Construct (A to C) request on or before August 1, 2000. -2- 7)* Begin Construction of wastewater treatment plant expansion on or before March 1, 2000. 8) Submit construction progress report on or before December 1, 2000.. 9) Submit construction progress report on or before August 1, 2001. 10)* Complete construction of wastewater treatment plant expansion on or before January 1, 2002. 11)* Comply with Final Effluent Limits on or before March 1, 2002. * Denotes activity subject to attainment of suitable amount of grant funding to finance project. (d) The Town shall comply with all terms and conditions of the permit except those effluent limitations identified in. paragraph 1(a) above. See Attachment (s) A for all monitoring requirements and effluent limitations. The Permittee may also be required to monitor for other parameters as deemed necessary by the Director in future permits or administrative letters. (e) During the time in which this Special Order by Consent is effective, the Town shall comply with interim effluent limitations as contained in Attachment(s) A. -3- Under this Special Order by Consent, ONLY the parameters listed below have been modified from the most current NPDES Permit currently in effect. Pipe Number 001 Permit Limitations Modified Limitations (SOC) Parameters Unit Monthly Avq. Daily Max. Monthly Avq. Daily Max. Flow MGD 0.075 0.150 BOD mg/1 30 45 45 TSS mg/1 30 45 45 Fec. Coliform /100 ml 200 400 400 Resd.chlorine ug/1 64 60 60 Monitor only- (f) No later than fourteen (14) calendar days after any date identified for accomplishment of any activity listed in 2(c) above, submit to the Director of DWQ written notice of compliance or non-compliance therewith. In the case of noncompliance, the notice shall include a statement of the reason(s) for non-compliance, remedial action(s) taken, and a statement identifying the extent to which subsequent dates or times for accomplishment of listed activities may be affected. (g) Enforce the North Carolina State Building Code as it applies to Water Conservation (Volume II -Plumbing, Chapter 9, 901 General Requirements -Materials, 901.2 Water Conservation, and Table 901.2.2-Maximum Allowable Water Usage For Plumbing Fixtures). (h) Develop and adopt sewer use ordinance limitations for non - conventional pollutants. Implement the pretreatment program as approved by the Director, including the enforcement of both categorical pretreatment standards and local limits. (i) Identify any Infiltration and Inflow problems associated with the facility and establish a program to correct. (j) Use forty percent (40%) of the revenue received by a municipality from additional one-half percent (1/2%) sales and use taxes levied during the first five (5) fiscal years in which the additional taxes are in effect in the municipality and thirty percent (30%) of the revenue received by a municipality from these taxes in the second five (5) fiscal years in which the taxes are in effect in the municipality for water and sewer capital outlay purposes or to retire any indebtedness incurred by the municipality for these purposes. -4- 3. The Town agrees that unless excused under paragraph four (4), the Town will pay the Director of DWQ, by check payable to the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, stipulated penalties according to the following schedule for failure to meet deadlines set out in paragraphs 2(c) and 2(f), or failure to attain compliance with the effluent limitations/monitoring requirements contained in Attachment(s) A. Failure to meet a schedule date. Failure to maintain compliance with any modified limit contained in the SOC . Failure to achieve compliance with final effluent limitations at final compliance deadline. Monitoring frequency violations. Failure to submit progress reports. $100/day for the first 7 days; $500/day thereafter. $1000/violation $2000/violation $100 per omitted value per parameter. $50/day for the first seven (7) days; $250/day thereafter. 4. The Town and the Commission agree stipulated penalties are not due if the Town satisfies the Division of Water Quality non- compliance was caused solely by: a. An act of God; b. An act of war; c. An intentional act or omission of a third party, but this defense shall not be available if the act or omission is that of an employee or agent of the defendant or if the act or omission occurs in connection with a contractual relationship with the Permittee; d. An extraordinary event beyond the Permittee's control. Contractor delays or failure to obtain funding will not be considered as events beyond the Permittee's control; or e. Any combination of the above causes. Failure within thirty (30) days of receipt of written demand to pay the penalties, or challenge them by a contested case petition pursuant to G.S. 150E-23, will be grounds for a collection action, which the Attorney General is hereby authorized to initiate. The only issue in such an action will be whether the -5- thirty (30) days has elapsed. 5. In accordance with provisions of G.S. 143-215.67(b) the Commission allows the Town to accept the additional waste specified below to its waste disposal system: 0.01375 MGD of additional wastewater. The nature of the additional flows is such that the waste characteristics do not exceed those generally associated with domestic waste or are pretreated to domestic strengths. Waste of greater than normal domestic strength may be accepted if the parameter(s) that exceed normal domestic strength wastewater are not those for which interim limitations have been developed and it can be demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Director the additional waste will not adversely affect the treatment efficiency of the treatment system for any modified parameter or result in the violation of any other permit limitation. All new and proposed industrial waste tributary to the system must be controlled using all needed mechanisms including but not limited to adoption and implementation of industrial waste control and pretreatment ordinances. No wastewater can be accepted which will add toxic pollutants in quantities not generally associated with domestic wastewater characteristics, unless the acceptance of the additional wastewater can be supported through appropriate analyses acceptable to the Director. 6. This Special Order by Consent and any terms, conditions and interim effluent limitations contained herein, hereby supersede any and all previous Special Orders, Enforcement Compliance Schedule Letters, terms, conditions, and limitations contained therein issued in connection with NPDES Permit No. NC0025461. In the event of an NPDES Permit modification or renewal, any effluent limitations or monitoring requirements contained therein shall supersede those contained in Attachment A of this Special Order by Consent, except as modified and contained in paragraph 2.(e) above. 7. Any violation of terms of this Special Order by Consent, including paragraphs 2(c) and 2(f) above and Attachment (s) (i.e., A, B, or C) shall terminate paragraph five (5) of this Order and any authorized additional waste not previously connected to the system shall not thereafter be connected until the necessary sewerage system improvements have been completed and placed in operation. 8. Non-compliance with the terms of this Special Order by Consent are subject to enforcement action in addition to the above stipulated penalties, including injunctive relief pursuant to G.S. 143-215.6.(C). -6- 9. The Permittee, upon signature of this Special Order by Consent, will be expected to comply with all schedule dates, terms, and conditions of this document. 10. This Special Order by Consent shall expire June 1, 2002. For the Town of Bakersville: Charles E. Vines, Mayor Print Name and Title of Signing Official 14,1( Signature of Signing Official Date PLeC, 3 /Oaf For the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission: Chairman of the Commission Date A - ZS--ov -7- EMC SOC WQ 99-088 Attachment A Town of Bakersville NPDES Permit Number NC0025461 Mitchell County EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS AND MONITORING REQUIREMENTS -Interim During the period beginning on the effective date of this Special Order and lasting until June 1, 2002, the Permittee is authorized to discharge from outfall serial number 001. Such discharges shall be limited and monitored by the Permittee as specified below: Effluent Characteristics Discharge Limitations Monitoring Requirements Units as Specified Measurement Sample *Sample Monthly Average Daily Max Frequency Type Location Flow BOD5 Total Suspended Residue 45 NH3 as N Fecal Coliform (geometric mean) 0.150 MGD Continuous Recording IorE 45 mg/1 60 mg/1 Weekly Composite E,I mg/1 60 mg/1 Weekly Composite E,I, 400/100 ml Total Residual Chlorine Temperature Total Nitrogen (NO2 + NO3 + TKN) Total Phosphorus 2/month Composite E Weekly Grab E , U; D, 2/Week Weekly Semi-annually Semi-annually Grab Grab E Composite E Composite E * Sample Location: I -Influent, E-Effluent, U-Upstream, D-Downstream The pH shall not be less than 6.0 standard units nor greater than 9.0 standard unit and shall be monitored 2/month at the effluent by grab sample. There shall be no discharge of floating solids or visible foam in other than trace amounts. The 85% rule between the influent and effluent BOD5 and TSS values shall not apply during the term of this Special Order by Consent. The Permittee may also be required to monitor for other parameters as deemed necessary by the Director in future permits or Administrative Letters. Note: Parameters underlined and noted in bold lettering above are the only parameters modified as part of this Special Order by Consent (SOC).