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NCDENR
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Beverly Eaves Perdue
Governor
Tim Horner
3073 Beaver Hill Drive
Burlington, North Carolina 27215
Dear Mr. Horner:
Division of Water Quality
Coleen H. Sullins Dee Freeman
Director Secretary
September 25, 2009
Subject: Notification of Jordan Lake Nutrient Requirements
NPDES Permit NC0077968
Homers Mobile Home Park
Alamance County
Governor Bev Perdue recently signed legislation to complete passage of rules for the Jordan Lake
Nutrient Management Strategy. The Strategy includes a Wastewater Discharge rule (T15A NCAC 02B
.0270) that applies to your wastewater treatment facility. Pursuant to Sub -Item (6)(d) of the rule, I am
writing to notify you of the nutrient allocations assigned to your facility.
This letter addresses only certain provisions of the Jordan Lake Wastewater Discharge rule. I encourage
you to familiarize yourself with the remainder of this rule.
Nutrient Allocations. The Wastewater Discharge rule establishes the maximum loads of nitrogen and
phosphorus that can be released from wastewater treatment facilities into the Jordan Lake watershed.
The rule provides that these wasteload allocations are to be divided among the existing facilities in
proportion to (with specific exceptions) their 2001 permitted flows. It also provides that facilities
permitted to discharge 100,000 gpd or more are to receive nitrogen and phosphorus limits equivalent to
their individual allocations.
Your facility has been assigned nitrogen and phosphorus allocations. The allocations are expressed as
annual mass loadings delivered to the lake. Due to foreseeable losses between the discharge point and
the lake, they are also expressed as the equivalent discharge loads at the point of discharge. The
delivered and the corresponding discharge allocations assigned to your facility are as follows:
NC0077968
Delivered Allocation
(lb/yr)
Transport
Factor (%)
Discharge Allocation
(lb/yr)
Total Nitrogen
847
58
1,461
Total Phosphorus
119
49
244
2001 Permitted Flow: 0.04 MGD
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Tim Horner
Notification of Jordan Lake Nutrient Requirements
September 25, 2009
Nutrient Limits. Your facility will not receive new nutrient limits at this time. However, any nutrient
limits already in your NPDES permit will remain in effect.
If the facilities permitted for less than 100,000 gpd, as a group, approach their allocations for nitrogen
or phosphorus, the Division will consider whether nutrient limits are necessary to protect water quality
at that time. In the event that nutrient limits become necessary, the limits would equal your facility's
discharge allocations.
Nutrient Trading. The rule provides that, when one utility connects to another, the allocations held by
the closing facility are transferred to the remaining facility. The rule also provides for the trading of
allocations among dischargers within each of the major Jordan subwatersheds. Be sure to consult with
the Division's NPDES staff before you consider selling allocation: transactions can have profound
implications for your facility and its permit.
If you have any questions regarding these allocations, please contact me at (919) 807-6402 or at
mike. templeton@ncdenr.gov.
CC:
Winston-Salem Regional Office
NDPES Files
Central Files
Sincerely,
Coleen H. Sullins
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PUBLIC NOTICE
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMMISSION-
/NPDES UNIT
1617 MAIL SERVICE CENTER
RALEIGH, NC 27699-1617
NOTIFICATION OF INTENT TO ISSUE A NPDES
WASTEWATER PERMIT
On the basis of thorough staff review and applica-
tion of NC General Statute 143.21, Public law 92-
500 and other lawful standards and regulations,
the North Carolina Environmental Management
Commission proposes to issue a National Pollu-
tant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
wastewater discharge permit to the person(s) list-
ed below effective 45 days from the publish date
of this notice.
Written comments regarding the proposed permit
will be accepted until 30 days after the publish
date of this notice. All comments received prior to
that date are considered in the final determination
regarding the proposed permit. The Director of
the NC Division of Water Quality may decide to
hold a public meeting for the proposed permit
should the Division receive a significant degree of
public interest.
Copies of the draft permit and other supporting in-
formation on file used to determine conditions
present in the draft permit are available upon re-
quest and payment of the cost of reproduction.
Mail comments and/or requests for information to
the NC Division of Water Quality at the above ad-
dress or call the Point Source Branch at (919)733-
5083, extension 520. Please include the NPDES
Permit number (attached) in any communication.
Interested persons may also visit the Division of
Water Quality at 512 N. Salisbury Street, Raleigh,
NC 27604-1148 between the hours of 8:00 a.m.
and 5:00 p.m. to review information on file.
The City of Graham, NPDES permit NC0021211,
has applied discharging to the Haw River in the
Cape Fear River Basin, BOD, ammonia, totoal re-
sidual chlorine and total phosphorus are water
quality limited. The discharge may affect future al-
locations in this portion of the receiving stream.
Homers Mobile Home Park (3073 Beaver Hill
Drive, Burlington, NC 27215) has applied for re-
newal of NPDES permit NC0077968 in Alamance
County. This permitted facility discharges 0.040
MGD of treated wastewater to Reedy Fork in the
Cape Fear River Basin. Some parameters may be
water quality limited, which may affect future allo-
cations in this portion of the Cape Fear River Ba-
sin.
H-S: March 21, 2006