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Home My WebLink AboutNCG550012_Inspection_20160926PAT MCCRORY Water Resources ENVIRONMENTAL DUALITY Jan Hutton 120 Willow Way Chapel Hill, NC 27516 Dear Ms. Hutton: September 26, 2016 Governor DONALD R. VAN DER VAART Secretary S. JAY ZIMMERMAN Director RECEIVED/N'CDEQ/DINR SEP 2 9 2016 Water Quality Permitting Section Subject: Compliance Evaluation Inspection Single Family Wastewater Treatment System Permit No. NCG550012 Chatham County On September 23, 2016 Ray Milosh from the Raleigh Regional Office visited your single-family residence (SFR) wastewater treatment system to evaluate compliance with the above permit to discharge wastewater. The checked boxes below show what conditions were noted at your facility: ❑ In compliance: You are reminded to regularly maintain the chlorine disinfection and dechlorination systems, have the effluent sampled once a year, and have the septic tank pumped out every 3 to 5 years. Your good record of operation and meeting the permit requirements is highly commended. ❑ Your home is improperly plumbed: Some of the wastewater discharges are going directly to the environment without first passing through the treatment system. This must be corrected immediately. Please submit a schedule to this office within 20 days of receipt of this letter that states your plan for correcting this deficiency. The work is to be completed within the next 3 months. ❑ Disinfection: Your system is lacking disinfection, either chlorine tablets or a UV light system. New rules put into place on August 1, 2007 require all SFR systems to have a means of disinfection (and dechlorination when chlorine tablets are used to disinfect, if the system was installed since that date). Since your system had no disinfection, the installation is to include a chlorine tablet dispenser, a contact chamber capable of providing a minimum 30 minute contact time, and another tablet dispenser that will hold dechlorination tablets. Please submit a schedule to this office within 20 calendar days of receipt of this letter that states your plan for correcting this deficiency. E Treatment tablets missing or are wrong kind: You are responsible for always having chlorine tablets and dechlorination tablets (if a required part of your system) in place. They must be the kind for wastewater treatment and not for swimming pools. ❑ Dechlorination: Your system was installed after August 1, 2007, so must have a means of dechlorination located downstream of the chlorinator and its contact chamber. State of North Carolina Environmental Quality 1 Water Resources 1 Raleigh Regional Office 1628 Mail service Center 1 Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1628 919 7914200 See Disinfection paragraph above. Please submit a schedule to this office within 20 calendar days of receipt of this letter stating your plan for correcting this deficiency. ❑ Pumping the septic tank: The septic tank should be pumped out every 3 to 5 years. A pumping company can check the status periodically and determine when pumping is required. ® Failure to analyze the effluent: The effluent that is discharged from your system must be analyzed once each year. See Part I (A) of your permit about his requirement. A list of NC certified laboratories that provide this service was left at your residence during the inspection. Make arrangements for sampling to be carried out within the next 3 months, and submit results to this office within 3 weeks after the sampling has been done. ❑ Locations of treatment units are unknown: Determine this and report to this office within 30 days of receipt of this letter with a sketch or map. E Other: If you have questions or comments about this inspection or the requirements to take corrective action, please contact the inspector or me at 919-791-4200. Licensed plumbers should be used to make plumbing changes within your home. Contractors for installing disinfection or other equipment may be found in the Yellow Pages under Environmental Consultants. Sincere' Danny Smith, Supervisor Surface Water Protection Raleigh Regional Office cc: RRO/SWP Files Charles Weaver NPDES Permitting Unit Attachments United States Environmental Protection Agency EPA Washington, D.C. 20480 Water Compliance Inspection Report Form Approved. OMB No. 2040-0057 Approval expires 8-31-98 Section A: National Data System Coding (i.e., PCS) Transaction Code NPDES yrlmo/day Inspection 1 E 2 LI 3 I NCG550012 111 12 16/09/23 17 Type 18 I �. I I I I I I Inspector Fac Type 19 I s I 201 211111 11 1 1 1 111 1 I l I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I II I I I I 1 l66 Inspection Work Days Facility Self -Monitoring Evaluation Rating B1 QA 67I I 70 LJ 71 U 72 LJ Reserved 73 1 I74 71 I I I I I I 180 Section B: Facility Data Name and Location of Facility inspected (For industrial Users discharging to POTW, also indude POTW name and NPDES permit Number) 120 Willow Way 120 Willow Way Chapel Hill NC 27516 Entry Time/Date 10:30AM 16/09/23 Permit Effective Date 13/08/01 Exit Time/Date 11:OOAM 16/09/23 Permit Expiration Date 18/07/31 Name(s) of Onsite Representative(s)lTitles(s)/Phone and Fax Number(s) Ill Other Facility Data Name, Address of Responsible Official/Title/Phone and Fax Number - Contacted Jan Hutton,120 Willow Way Chapel Hill NC 275161// No Section C: Areas Evaluated During Inspection (Check only those areas evaluated) Operations & Maintenance • Section D: Summary of Finding/Comments (Attach additional sheets of narrative and checklists as necessary) (See attachment summary) . Names) and Signature(s) of Inspector(s) Agency/Office/Phone and Fax Numbers Date Raymond M Milosh RRO GW//919-715-0588/ q/2.04 na of Management Reviewer Agency/Office/Phone and Fax Numbers Date iiileir,e(77)711/: 2Z_cW EPA Form 3561 (Rev 9-94) Previous editions arelete. i' Page# 1 31 NPDES NCG550012 111 12 yrlmolday 18/09/23 Inspection Type 17 18 L.. 1 Section D: Summary of Finding/Comments (Attach additional sheets of narrative and checklists as necessary) Chatham Co DEH staff Anne Lowry speaks at HOA meetings to educate them. Considering buying CI tabs for HOA and sharing them, but not enough interest. No signs of failure of system. Tank last pumped in 2012 by Carolins Septic Services. Could not find outfall in deeply incised creek. Likely not discharging. Page# 2 Permit: NCG550012 Owner - Facility: 120 Willow Way Inspection Date: 09/23/2016 Inspection Type: Compliance Evaluation Operations & Maintenance Is the plant generally clean with acceptable housekeeping? Does the facility analyze process control parameters, for ex: MLSS, MCRT, Settleable Solids, pH, DO, Sludge Judge, and other that are applicable? Comment: Yes No NA NE ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ El El Page# 3