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Water•Wastewater•Solid Waste
Administration,P.O.Box 2511,Winston-Salem,NC 27102
336-727-8000• wsfcutilities.org
RECEIVED
August 24, 2022 SEP 01 2022
Jeff Poupart, Supervisor NCDEQ/DWR/NPDES
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
PERCS Unit
1617 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1617
Re: FY 2021-2022 System Performance Report
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Utilities
Dear Mr. Poupart,
Enclosed you will find our annual performance report for Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Utilities
wastewater collection and treatment system as mandated by the North Carolina Clean Water Act of
1999.This report covers the period from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022.
Our report was made available to the public by publishing a Notice of Availability in the August 26, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal. A copy of that legal ad is enclosed and the Affidavit of Publication will be
emailed upon receipt. Copies of this report can also be obtained at the Forsyth County Central Library,
from our office or City Link.The report is posted on our website at cityofws.org/wwreports.
Please call me at 336-747-7315 if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
CPA ki)AheN--
Courtney L. Driver, P.E.
Utilities Director
Cc: Michael Stover, P.E., Assistant Utilities Director-Operations
Frank Crump, Wastewater Treatment Superintendent
Kenny Atkins, Utilities Field Operations Manager
Antonio Martinez, ORC
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John C.Larson,South Ward;Jeff Macintosh,Northwest Ward;Kevin Mundy,Southwest Ward;Annette Scipplo,East Ward;James Taylor,Jr.,Southeast Ward;
City Manager:Lee D.Garrity
County Commissioners:David R.Plyler,Chair;Don Martin,Vice Chair;Fleming El-Amin;Ted Kaplan;Richard V.Linville;Tonya McDaniel;Gloria D.Whisenhunt;
Call 311 or 336-727-8000 County Manager:Dudley Watts,Jr.
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Utility Commission:L.Wesley Curtis,Jr.,Chair;Chris Parker,Vice Chair;Simpson O.Brown,Jr.;Harold Eustache;Tom Griffin;
[e-mail] Yvonne H.Hines;Hugh W.Jernigan;Duane Long;Charles Wilson;Allan Younger

NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY
Annual Performance Report for Wastewater Collection & Treatment Systems
Fiscal Year 2021-2022
Effective October 1, 1999, all wastewater facilities that collect or treat wastewater must
notify the public of wastewater spills. The second part to this rule requires the owner or
operator of the wastewater treatment/collection systems to provide an annual report to
its users, customers and the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. This
report summarizes the performance of the treatment works/collection systems and
states the extent to which any terms of its permit, federal laws, or any state laws,
regulations or rules related to the protection of water quality have been violated.
The Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Annual Performance Report for WSFC Utilities Wastewater
Collection and Treatment Systems will be available to the public at the front desk of
Stuart Municipal Building, 100 E. First St., at the Forsyth County Central Library, by
calling City Link 336-727-8000 and at cityofws.org/wwreports.
Winston-Salem Journal:Aug. 26, 2022 Lesal Notices
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Winston-Salem/Forsyth County
Utilities
Water•Wastewater•Solid Waste
Wastewater Collection&Treatment System—Performance Report for Fiscal Year 2021-2022
This report is published annually and released to our customers in accordance with the requirements of the
North Carolina Clean Water Act of 1999 and provides information on the Publicly Operated Treatment Works
(POTW) and Collection System operated by Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Utilities (WSFC Utilities). It covers
the period of July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022.
WSFC Utilities operates two wastewater treatment plants with a combined treatment capacity of 51 million
gallons per day.The wastewater collection system includes 1,790 miles of sewer lines and 45 lift stations. During
the period covered by this report, a total of 12.43 billion gallons of wastewater was collected and treated at
these facilities. WSFC Utilities staff work hard to meet or exceed the requirements mandated by the North
Carolina Clean Water Act and th6 requirements of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
permits that regulate the actual operation of the treatment plants,the disposal of our biosolids, and the
operation and maintenance of our collection system. We continue to send staff to Collection and Wastewater
Treatment Plant Operator schools to obtain the appropriate certification and training.
The wastewater collection system operates under NPDES Permit WQCS00003.The Archie Elledge Wastewater
Treatment Plant(WWTP) operates under NPDES Permit NC0037834 and the Muddy Creek WWTP operates
under NPDES Permit NC0050342.The treatment and disposal of residual biosolids produced by the plants is
accomplished by anaerobic digestion followed by processing in a biosolids drying facility at the Archie Elledge
WWTP under Permit WQ0029804.The biosolids dryer facility produced 8,136 dry tons of pelletized biosolids
during FY 2021-2022 which were beneficially applied to farmland.The water system has three additional NPDES
permits,one associated with each water treatment plant.Swann Water Treatment Plant(WTP) operates under
General Permit NCG590003,Thomas WTP under Permit NC0079821 and Neilson WTP under Permit NC0086011.
All three water plant permits operated within compliance of their permit conditions during this performance
period.The treatment process at the water treatment plants generates a Class-A residual that is land applied
under Permit WQ0031314. During this compliance period, a total of 1,647.48 dry tons of residuals were hauled
from Neilson WTP and applied on farmland in Davidson County.A total of 64.8 dry tons were hauled from
Swann WTP and applied on farmland in Yadkin County.Thomas WTP hauled 457.54 dry tons of residuals to the
city-owned and operated Hanes Mill Road Landfill.
Archie Elledge and Muddy Creek WWTPs and the Biosolids Dryer Facility reported no violations of their permit
limits during the reporting period.The two wastewater treatment plants met the minimum requirements
imposed by the State of North Carolina's Division of Water Resources by a safety factor of 4.75.The bar chart in
Appendix B shows the performance of the wastewater treatment plants during this period. Approximately
13,565 tons of regulated pollutants were removed by the treatment processes during the period of July 1, 2021
through June 30, 2022.
The remainder of this document includes details about monitoring system discharges and overflows from our
wastewater collection system and preventative maintenance programs established to prevent potential
problems. WSFC Utilities'goal is to have zero sanitary sewer overflows (SSO)from the wastewater collection
system. However, during the last fiscal year, 55 events totaling 0.00013%of the wastewater collected was
spilled/overflowed from the sanitary sewer system.Appendix A and D of this report list a detailed summary of
plant and collection system overflows reported in FY 2021-2022.
Since the passage of the North Carolina Clean Water Act in 1999 the total annual SSOs have been tracked
against the baseline year of FY 1998-1999 (Appendix C). Diligence by maintenance personnel performing
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