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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNC0066516_Wasteload Allocation_19931206PERMIT NO.: NCO066516 PERMITTEE NAME: Town of Fuquay-Varina FACILITY NAME: Terrible Creek WWTP Facility Status: Proposed Permit Status: Renewal Major 1l Minor Pipe No.: 001 Design Capacity: 6.0 MGD Domestic (% of Flow): Industrial (% of Flow): 95 % 5% NPDES WASTE LOAD ALLOCATION Comments: Three 2.0 MGD phases vlanned Please provide limits for the three phases. RECEIVING STREAM:Terrible Creek Class: C-NS W Sub -Basin: 03-04-03 Reference USGS Quad: E 23 SE (please attach) County: Wake Regional Office: Raleigh Regional Office Previous Exp. Date: 1/31/94 Treatment Plant Class: 3 or 4 Classification changes within three miles: none yT' PLO Requested by: Grgg Nizich ()w*� Date: 7/16/93 Prepared by: Date: Reviewed by:L_YYAA l 5 :t \3 Date: a Modeler Date Rec. # irk, Drainage Area (mi2): 9.90 Avereage Streamflow (cfs): 11.0 s7010 (cfs): 0.0 w7010 (cfs): 0.51 30102 (cfs): 0.96 Toxicity Limit(s): IWC 98.7 % : 2.0 mgd Chronic P / F Limit [Qrtly] 99.4 % : 4.0 mgd Chronic P / F Limit [Qrtly] � 9o% 99.6 % : 6.0 mgd Chronic P / F Limit [Qrtly]yo% Instream Monitoring: Upstream Location: Dam spillway Downstream Location: NCSR 2751 [near mouth of Swift Creek] Parameters: Temperature, dissolved oxygen, fecal coliform, conductivib Monthly Average Wasteflow (MGD): Summer 2.0 Winter Summer Winter Summer Winter BOD5 (mg/1): 5.0 10.0 4.0 5.0 10.0 6.0 5.0 10.0 NH3N (mg/I): DO (mg/1): 2.0 6.0 4.0 2.0 4.0 2.0 4.0 TSS (mg/1): 30 6.0 30 6.0 30 6.0 30 6.0 6.0 Fecal Col. (/100 ml): 200 200 200 200 30 200 30 200 PH (SU): Residual Chlorine (µg/I): 6-9 17.0 6-9 17.0 6-9 17.0 6-9 6-9 6-9 Oil & Grease (mg/I): nr nr nr 17.0 17.0 17.0 TP (mg/1): 2.0 2.0 2.0 nr 2.0 nr 2.0 nr 2.0 TN (mg/1): Copper (µg/I): monitor monitor monitor monitor monitor monitor Lead (µg/1): monitor monitor monitor monitor monitor monitor monitor monitor Zinc (µg/1): monitor monitor monitor monitor monitor monitor monitor monitor monitor monitor "In light of the extremely limited assimilative capacity for oxygen -consuming wastes in Middle Creek, no new wastewater outfalls should be permitted within the basin. The existing municipal facilities, Apex, Cary South and the proposed Fuquay-Varina WWTP should serve as regional treatment facilities to handle future wastewater needs." [A Water ouality Analysis of the Proposed and Existing Dischargers to Middle Creek below Sunset Lake] Reduced instream monitoring has been included in this NPDES permit under the assumption that the Neuse River Coalition will be formed and approved by the Division of Environmental Management. If the coalition does not materialize or you choose not to participate, the NPDES permit may be reopened by administrative letter to include additional instream monttonng requirements determined to be necessary to adequately characterize the effects of the discharge on the Neuse River Basin's water quality. TSB requests Toxicity Reopener Clause be included in the Permit for Toxic Specific Limits pending additional Industrial tie-ons. Due to lack of information as to possible SIU's and quantities of domestic flows, monitoring of possible toxicants in effluent is recommended to take place through the facility's Pretreatment Long-term Monitoring Plan. a TOWN OF FUQUAY-VARINA 1300 East Academy Street Ev Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina 27526 (919) 552-3178 MAY.WWA, NNYW CAR06NA ` July t, 1993 Permits & Engineering Unit Division of Environmental Management NC Dept Environment, Health and Natural Resources P.O. Box 29535 Raleigh, NC 27626-0535 Re: Request for Renewal NPDES permit No. 0066516 Town of Fuquay-Varina, Wake County Gentlemen: The Town of Fuquay-Varina has spent vast amounts of time, effort and funds to secure a NPDES discharge permit on Terrible Creek. The process was begun in 1986 in response to the Town of Cary's issuance of a discharge permit for :6.0 mgd into Middle Creek to which Terrible Creek is tributary. Fuquay-Varina desires to maintain its current discharge permit capacity to support future development in the Neuse River basin. Fuquay-Varina's original discharge permit application followed the requirements of the State Environmental Policy Act. A very protracted environmental review of the project resulted in the issuance of a Finding of No Significant impact (FONSI) by the Department of Administration in 1991. A discharge permit was issued subsequent to the FONSI. The Town has purchased a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) site on Terrible Creek. The Town has annexed and rezoned the site. Preliminary design of the WWTP and its interceptor sewers is underway. Additional environmental documents for the interceptor sewers are being prepared currently. Therefore, the Town is actively working towards an Authorization to Construct the proposed facilities. The Terrible Creek discharge is vital to the Towns future growth and development. There are large amounts of land adjacent to the Town or in the Town's extra -territorial jurisdiction which are in the Terrible Creek basin. Logic would suggest that the wastewater generated by future development would be more economically treated within the same drainage basin. r r .r r;, •f Permits & Engineering Unit July , 1993 Page 2 The Town's existing Kenneth Creek WWTP is appTerroachible ng itsdi hydraulic aulic capacity. Since the Town has securedt permit, end expansion of the viewKenneth ConstructionTofwthedTerzible Creek Protracted environmental re a Tp was deemed more prudent than uthe rsuit Of CreeksNPAESEdischarge Creek WWTP. Therefore, without permit, the lengthy process of expanding the Kenneth Creek WWTPnew would be required, and the Town toriumewouldebeforcd idevagtatingnto a otouthenTown's sewer connections. A morn tax base. We strongly request that the Town's earliexe theeTownDhaspermit alreadYe renewed as submitted. As explained complied with the State Enviare acc`�tivelyal 1pursuing icy Act fan Authorization mto through lengthy review. We are a Construct the WWTP and interceptors- our current situation dictates construction in the very n Sincerely, L.W. Bennett, Jr. Town Manager Enclosures co, Mayor Alfred Johnson Jonathan Howes Preston Howard William Diehl 10 Facility Name: , Permit Number: Engineer: Subbasin: Recleving Stream: USGS quad #: Request Number: Date: Expiration date: Town of Fuquay-Varina NCO066516 Nizich 03-04-03 Terrible Creek E23SE 7547 7/19/93 1 /31 /94 Terrible Creek WWTP Existing WLA checked: x Staff Report: x plus Report on Middle Creek 10 / 92 Topo checked: x USGS Flows confirmed: PIRF / APAMS: nr IWC Spreadsheet: Stream Classification: x Nutrient Sensitivity: x Instream Data: Proposed facility This facility was originally issued a permit in 1986 with limits of adavanced secondary treatment, (i.e. 6 mg/I BODS, 3 mg/I N1­13-N, 6 mg/I DO, and 1,000 / 100 ml, etc.]. Since that time, extensive monitoring, modeling, and reports have been made on Middle Creek, (Terrible Creek is a tributary to Middle Creek) and this has in turn changed our recommended limits to advanced tertiary with 0.5 - 2 mg/I total phosphorus and a potential for nitrogen limits from 3 - 6 mg/l. The town, obviously, was very upset by this and questioned many aspects of it, including the 7Q10 and final nutrient removal rates. Extensive review by our staff and the USGS was done for the 7010 with the same resulting zero 7Q10 summer value. The bottom line was that with a proposed 6.0 mgd plant, the facility would dominate the stream -flow at low flow periods even if the 7Q10 was found to be a slight bit higher. With regards to the nutrient issue, a 2 mg/I total Phosphorus limit was applied with a monitoring requirement for Nitrogen and a caveat of more stringent nutrient controls in the future applied. Slu's Parameter Guilford Fibers Business Unit [Proposed] Polyester Resin Chips and Finish Oil OCPSF facility (town considers domestic) Pretreatment The last permit has limits and monitoring requirements for metals and organics for a company called RayChem,. (which will probably not tie -on), but very little documentation as to what SIU's would tie -on. The SIU .mentioned above would probably tie -on from their old plant in the Cape Fear Basin, (NC0028118). I have requested an evaluation from Pretreatment. 8/27/93 Dana Foley has recently finished a headworks analysis on this facility, (recieved 8126/93), but unfortunately was not able determine what the percent domestic and percent industrial, The facility proposed to tie -on is an OCPSF facility, but none of their OCPSF flow would be sent to this plant; the quantity of flow proposed to be sent is not finalized.. **Since this facility is not yet constructed, and such a large amount of uncertainty about the constituents in their effluent exists, Dana and I determined that the best approach would be to recommend that Copper, Lead , and Zinc be monitored per the Pretreatment Long-term Monitoring plan, and the permit contain Toxicity Re -opener Language such that if they go on-line before their five-year permit is up, we can re -assess their waste load and apply any necessary requirements upon them at that time. I will also continue their Chronic Toxicity Test requirement as a mechanism for determining effluent problems. ** The PIRF I recieved is based on spurious data and all removal rates are "literature" values, thus I felt it was unnecessary to run a PIRF Spreadsheet since the results would be so suspect. Middle Creek Report October,1992 The bottom -line of this report is in the summary: "If the four existing dischargers reach their permitted loads (Cary at 6.4 MGD), the model predicts that instream DO concentrations will sag to 1.4 mg/I. However, the model indicates that it will be difficult under any management strategy to meet the 5.0 mg/I stream standard for dissolved oxygen under critical conditions because of existing physical conditions (e.g., low streamflow and slow velocities). Even with no discharges, a DO sag to 3.1 mg/I is predicted, if background and runoff BOD concentrations remain as high as found during the calibration study. The model was also run assuming all permitted discharges will implement "Best Available Technology" (BAT) to achieve tertiary treatment (i.e., BOD5 = 5 mg/l, NH3-N =1 mg/I, and DO = 6-7 mg/1). With these effluent limits, the added wasteflow and dissolved oxygen is expected to cause the DO concentrations to sag 3.1 mg/I below Cary and to 3.0 mg/I below Fuquay-Varina. The DO profile is higher for the actual average loading scenario than the no discharge or BAT scenario due to Cary's addition of highly treated wastewater (1991 summer averages: BODs = 1.45 mg/I, NH3-N = 0.1 mg/I, and DO=8.3 mg/I). "In light of the extremely limited assimilative capacity for oxygen -consuming wastes in Middle Creek, no new wastewater outfalls should be permitted within the basin. The existing municipal facilities, Apex, Cary South and the proposed Fuquay-Varina WWTP should serve as regionalNatment facilities to handle future wastewater needs." [A Water Quality Analysis of the Proposed and Existing Dischargers to Middle Creek below Sunset Lake] Terrible reek MIDDLE CREEK SR 1387 2 R 1404 F., SR 1507 Sq r.s„ NEUSE RIVER NO 50 A usgs gage SR Mill Branch 4 3 SR 1375 6 1 ills Branch anther Bran Little Creek Permitted Facility Flow (mgd) Limits Existing? 1 Cary South WWTP 6.4(16) 6/3/6 Yes 2 Wyndridge 0.15 12/1/5 N 3 Amherst Subdivision 0.02 (.053) 9/1/6 Yes 4 Pleasant Grove 0.0065 18/12/5 N 5 Brighton Forest 0.277 6/3/6 N 6 Levinson Steel 0.025 712/5 N 7 Fuquay-Varina WWTP 6 5/1/6 N 8 Springhaven 0.15 9/7/5 N (ATC Issued) 9 R.P. Holding 0.4 25/2/6 N 10 Countryside MHP 0.025 1 a/5/5 Yes 11 Wake Technical College 0.02 18/5/5 Yes SWIFT CREEK Page 1 Note for Farrell Keough From: Dana Folley Date: Fri, Jul 30, 1993 2:25 PM Subject: RE: Fuquay-Varina To: Farrell Keough NC0028118. Your recommendation sounds good to me. I'll still follow up with the Town Pretreatmetn Contact to confirm, and will let you know if I find anything different. -Dana F. From: Farrell Keough on Fri, Jul 30, 1993 2:20 PM Subject: Fuquay-Varina To: Dana Folley Everything I've read seems to indicate that this plant will not replace their old one, but it will take on the old plants SIU's. At this point I want to recommend the same PIRF requirements for this plant as for their old one. What is the NPDES # of the old plant and what are your feelings about this approach? I. NPDES PP.E,TRFFFATMENT INFORMATION REQUEST FARM I. FACIi.ITy NAME: G � i NPDES NO. NCO ' I I t RFXXIES'I'ER' U DATE: �/ � / 13 REGION: : �� � 0 ' I PST CONDITIONS COVERING PREI'REATMENI' This facility has no SIUs and should not This facility should and/or is developing Please include the following conditions: This facility is currently implementing Please include the following conditions: SI'r. • CANT INDUSTRIAL #6. •, have pretreatment language. a pretreatment program. Program Development Phase I dlle Phase II due Additional Conditions (attached) a pretreatment program. Program Implgnentation Additional Conditions (attached) i 1 SIU FI,(]W - TOTAL: PPS ec I ' I - Fxr�ODMPOSIMON: T ; ' METAL FIN'AING:O.OlS (}..UaS ' 1 U = CL:..: MGD I I I I I I I � I I MGD I HEAD;qORKS REVIE-,�,7 IS Q(So OCPGhl�t I �tOC'SYt 15��/tC+✓CAL' f PARAMETER PASS 1THROUGH sAPYe ;L I ALLOW]JUE DAILY LOAD I1'' BNS /sD ACTUAL Cd ' ---------- D�STIC V �Q M�j PER 11 � INDUSTRIAL % REMOVAL I I Cr Cu v - _ • 0 1 Zn CN -----__ d•d4� rK Q b - ` OK� --�._ _ I P Phenol ------ - 6 �� Q --� _ _ � ' �__ Other ---- _ — --- c ,�,/-? /Ia NOV O 2 1993 Facility Name: NPDES No.: Type of Waste: Facility Status: Permit Status: Receiving Stream: Stream Classification: Subbasin: County: Regional Office: Requestor: Date of Request: Topo Quad: FACT SHEET FOR WASTELOAD ALLOCATION ®EHNR-RAL RO Request # 7547 Fuquay-Varina Terrible Creek Waste Water Treatment Faci,�,itry� RECEIVED NCO066516 WR'SHINGTON OFFICE 95% Domestic 5% Industrial Proposed Renewal Terrible Creek C-NSW 03-04-03 Wake Raleigh Nizich 7/19/93 E23SE Wasteload Allocation Summary (approach taken, correspondence with region, EPA, etc.) NOV 1 71993 D. E M. Stream Characteristic: USGS # 02.0879.6590 Date: 1991 Drainage Area (mi2): 9.90 Summer 7Q10 (cfs): 0.0 Winter 7Q 10 (cfs): 0.51 Average Flow (cfs): 11.0 30Q2 (cfs): 0.96 IWC (%): 98.7% : 2.0 mgd 99.4% 4.0 mgd 99.6% 6.0 mgd "In light of the extremely limited assimilative capacity for oxygen -consuming wastes in Middle Creek, no new wastewater outfalls should be permitted within the basin. The existing municipal facilities, Apex, Cary South and the proposed Fuquay-Varina WWTP should serve as regional treatment facilities to handle future wastewater needs." to Water Quality Analysis of the Proposed and Existing Dischargers to Middle Creek below Sunset Lake] Reduced instream monitoring has been included in this NPDES permit under the assumption that the Neuse River Coalition will be formed and approved by the Division of Environmental Management. If the coalition does not materialize or you choose not to participate, the NPDES permit may be reopened by administrative letter to include additional instream monitoring requirements determined to be necessary to adequately characterize the effects of the discharge on the Neuse River Basin's water quality. Due to lack of information as to possible SIU's and quantities of domestic flows, monitoring of possible toxicants in effluent is recommended to take place through the facility's Pretreatment Long-term Monitoring Plan.. 4 TSB requests*e any Reopener Clause be included in the Permit�o v 7o1Ci L S�LCCjc Li wuis �ewci; advl fiam -aJ ZVKdvS4A, JTie-&0. Special Schedule Requirements and additional comments from Reviewers: q Ij 0 Uff 1el'i3 Farrell Keough Reviewed by Instream Assessment: �� --- ----Date: �© Regional Supervisor: Permits & Engineering: Date: RETURN TO TECHNICAL SERVICES i\10V 1 iJ r CONVENTIONAL PARAMETERS Existina Limits: Monthly Average Summer Winter Wasteflow (MGD): 2.0 BOD5 (mg/l): 5.0 10.0 NH3N (mg/1): 1.0 2.0 DO (mg/1): 6.0 6.0 TSS (mg/1): 30 30 J Fec fCol. (/100 ml): 200 200 pH (SU): 6-9 6-9 Residual Chlorine (µg/1): 17.0 17.0 Oil & Grease (mg/1):' nr nr TP (mg/1): 2.0 2.0 TN (mg/1): monitor monitor Recommended Limi Monthly Average Summer Winter wQ orE. Wasteflow (MGD) 2.0 BOD5 (mg/1): 5.0 10.0 wQ NH3N (mg/1): +-w-o -"4'0 wQ DO (mg/1): 6.0 6.0 wQ TSS (mg/1): 30 30 Fecal Col. (/100 ml): 200 200 pH (SU): 6-9 6-9 Residual Chlorine (µg/1): 17.0 17.0 wQ Oil & Grease (mg/1): nr. - nr , TP (mg/1): 2.0 2.0 WQ TN (mg/1): monitor monitor i+ Limits Changes Due To: Parameter(s) Affected Change in 7Q10 data Change in stream classification Relocation of discharge Change in wasteflow Other (onsite toxicity study, interaction, etc.) Instream.data ; New regulations/standards/procedures New facility information (explanation of any modifications to past modeling analysis including new flows, rates, field data, interacting discharges) (See page 6 for miscellaneous. and special conditions, if applicable) a CONVENTIONAL PARAMETERS ExistinLy Limits: Monthly Average Summer Winter Wasteflow (MGD): 4.0 EOD5 (mg/1): 5.0 10.0 NH3N (mg/1): 1.0 2.0 DO (mg/1): 6.0 6.0 TSS (mg/1): 30 30 Fecal Col. (/100 ml): 200 200 pH (SU): 6-9 6-9 Residual Chlorine (µg/1): 17.0 17.0 Oil & Grease (mg/1): nr nr TP (mg/1): 2.0 2.0 TN (mg/1): monitor monitor Recommended Limi Monthly Average Summer- Winter WQ or EL Wasteflow (MGD): 4.0 BOD5 (mg/1): 5.0 10.0 , WQ NH3N (mg/1); 4=(Pa.0 2*4..D wQ DO (mg/1): 6.0 6.0 WQ TSS (mg/1): 30 30 Fecal Col. (/100 ml): 200 200 pH (SU): 6-9 6-9 Residual Chlorine (µg/l): 17.0 17.0 WQ Oil & Grease (mg/1): nr nr TP (mg/1); 2.0 2.0 WQ TN (mg/1): monitor monitor Limits Changes Due To: Parameter(s) Affected Change in 7Q10 data Change in stream classification Relocation of discharge Change in wasteflow Other (onsite toxicity study, interaction, etc.) Instream data , New regulations/standards/procedures New facility information (explanation of any modifications to past modeling analysis including new flows, rates, field data, interacting discharges) (See page 6 for miscellaneous and special conditions, if applicable) CONVENTIONAL PARAMETERS Existine Limits: Monthly Average Summer Winter Wasteflow (MGD): 6.0 BOD5 (mg/1): 5.0 10.0 N113N (mg/1): 1.0 2.0 DO (mg/1): 6.0 6.0 TSS (mg/1): 30 30 Fecal Col. (/100 ml): 200 200 pH (SU): 6-9 6-9 Residual Chlorine (µg/l): 17.0 17.0 Oil & Grease (mg/1): nr nr TP (mg/1): 2.0 2.0 TN (mg/1): monitor monitor Recommended Limits: Monthly Average Summer Winter wQ or EL Wasteflow (MGD): 6.0 BOD5 (mg/1): 5.0 10.0 wQ N113N (mg/1):, 4*OX 2=0 4-D wQ DO (mg/1): 6.0 6.0 wQ TSS (mg/1): 30 30 Fecal. Col. (/100 ml): 200 200 pH.(SU): 6-9 6-9 Residual Chlorine (µg/1): 17.0 17.0 wQ Oil & Grease (mg/1): nr nr TP (mg/1): 2.0 2.0 wQ TN (mg/1): R@W: monitor monitor Limits Changes Due To: Parameter(s) Affected Change in 7Q10 data Change in stream classification Relocation of discharge Change in wasteflow Other (onsite toxicity study, interaction, etc.) Instream data ; . New regulations/standards/procedures New facility information (explanation of any modifications to past modeling analysis including new flows, rates, field data, interacting discharges) (See page 6 for miscellaneous and special conditions, if applicable) TOXICS/METALS Type of Toxicity Test: Chronic Toxicity (Ceriodaphnia) P/F Test Existing Limit: 90% for all flows Recommended Limit: 90% for all flows Monitoring Schedule:. March, June, September, and December Existing Limits Daily Max. COD (mg/): Cadmium (ug/1): monitor Chromium (ug/1): monitor Copper (ug/1): monitor Nickel (ug/1): monitor Lead (ug/1): monitor Zinc (ug/1): monitor Cyanide (ug/1): monitor 1,1,1 - Trichloroethane (ug/1): monitor Mercury (ug/1): monitor Silver (ug/1): monitor Recommended Limits Daily Max. wQ or EL COD (mgl)e nr Cadmium. (ug/1): Chromium (ug/1): Co er u - monitor Nickel (ug/1): Lead (ug/1): monitor Zinc (ug/1): - monitor Cyanide ugn); Phenols (ug/1): Mercury (ug/1): Silver (ug/1): Limits Changes Due To: Parameter(s) Affected Change in 7Q10 data Change in stream classification Relocation of discharge Change in wasteflow New pretreatment information x all metals and organics Failing toxicity test Other (onsite toxicity study, interaction, etc.) Parameter(s) are water quality limited. For some parameters, the available load capacity of the immediate receiving water will be consumed. This may affect future water quality based effluent limitations for additional dischargers within this portion of the watershed. WS _x_ No parameters are water quality limited, but this discharge may affect future. allocations. INSTREAM MONITORING REQUIREMENTS Upstream Location: Dam spillway Downstream Location: NCSR 2751 [near Swift Creek mouth] Parameters: Temperature, dissolved oxygen, fecal coliform, conductivity Special instream monitoring locations or monitoring frequencies: MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION & SPECIAL CONDITIONS Adequacy of Existing Treatment Has the facility demonstrated the ability to meet the proposed new limits with existing treatment facilities? Yes No If no, which parameters cannot be met? Would a "phasing in" of the new limits be appropriate? Yes No If yes, please provide a schedule (and basis for that schedule) with the regional office recommendations: If no, why not? Special Instructions or Conditions Wasteload sent to EPA? (Major) (Y or N) (If yes, then attach schematic, toxics spreadsheet, copy of model, or, if not modeled, then old assumptions that were made, and description of how it fits into basinwide plan) Additional Information attached? (Y or N) If yes, explain with attachments. Facility Name Fuquay-Varina Terrible Cr. WWTP Permit # NC0066516 Pipe # 001 CHRONIC TOXICITY PASS/FAIL PERMIT LIMIT (QRTRLY) The effluent discharge shall at no time exhibit chronic toxicity using test procedures outlined in: 1.) The North Carolina Ceriodaphnia chronic effluent bioassay procedure (North Carolina Chronic Bioassay Procedure - Revised *September 1989) or subsequent versions. The effluent concentration at which there may be no observable inhibition of reproduction or significant mortality is 90 % (defined as treatment two in the North Carolina procedure document). The permit holder shall perform auarterly monitoring using this procedure to establish compliance with the permit condition.. The first test will be performed after thirty days from the effective date of this permit during the months of Mar., Jun., Sep., and Dec. Effluent sampling for this testing shall be performed at the NPDES permitted final effluent discharge below all treatment processes. All toxicity testing results required as part of this permit condition will be entered on the Effluent Discharge Monitoring Form (MR-1) for the month in which it was performed, using the parameter code TGP313. Additionally, DEM Form AT-1 (original) is to be sent to the following address: Attention: Environmental Sciences Branch North Carolina Division of Environmental Management 4401 Reedy Creek Road Raleigh, N.C. 27607 Test data shall be complete and accurate and include all supporting chemical/physical measurements performed in association with the toxicity tests, as well as all dose/response data. Total residual chlorine of the effluent toxicity sample must be measured and reported if chlorine is employed for disinfection of the waste stream. Should any single quarterly monitoring indicate a failure to meet specified limits, then monthly monitoring will begin immediately until such time that a single test is passed. Upon passing, this monthly test requirement will revert to quarterly in the months specified above. Should any test data from this monitoring requirement or tests performed by the North Carolina Division of Environmental Management indicate potential impacts to the receiving stream, this permit may be re -opened and modified to include alternate monitoring requirements or limits. NOTE: Failure to achieve test conditions as specified in the cited document, such as minimum control organism survival and appropriate environmental controls, shall constitute an invalid test and will require immediate retesting(within 30 days of initial monitoring event). Failure to submit suitable test results will constitute noncompliance with monitoring requirements. h 7Q10 0.0 Permitted Flow 2.0 IWC 9&7 Basin & Sub -basin Receiving Stream County QCL P/F Version 9191 cis MGD 03-04-03 Terrible Creek Fake _Recommended Date -ES Keough t`i°t 3 Facility Name Fuquay-Varina Terrible Cr. WWTP Permit # NCO066516 Pipe # 001 CHRONIC TOXICITY PASS/FAIL PERMIT LIMIT (QRTRLY) The effluent discharge shall at no time exhibit chronic toxicity .using test procedures outlined in: 1.) The North Carolina Ceriodaphnia chronic effluent bioassay procedure (North Carolina Chronic Bioassay Procedure - Revised *September 1989) or subsequent versions. The effluent concentration at which there may be no observable inhibition of reproduction or significant mortality is 90 % (defined as treatment two in the North Carolina procedure document). The permit holder shall perform quarterly monitoring using this procedure to establish compliance with the permit condition. The first test will be performed after thirty days from the effective date of this permit during the months of Mar., Jun., Sep., and Dec.. Effluent sampling for this testing shall be performed at the NPDES permitted final effluent discharge below all treatment processes. All toxicity testing results required as part of this permit condition will be entered on the Effluent Discharge Monitoring Form (MR-1) for the month in which it was performed, using the parameter code TGP3B. Additionally, DEM Form AT-1 (original) is to be sent to the following address: Attention: Environmental Sciences Branch North Carolina Division of Environmental Management 4401 Reedy Creek Road Raleigh, N.C. 27607 Test data shall be complete and accurate and include all supporting chemical/physical measurements performed in association with the toxicity tests, as well as all dose/response data. Total residual chlorine of the effluent toxicity sample must be measured and reported if chlorine ' is employed for disinfection of the waste stream. Should any single quarterly monitoring indicate a failure to meet specified limits,. then monthly monitoring will beginimmediately until such time that a single test is passed. Upon passing, this monthly test requirement will revert to quarterly in the months specified above. Should any test data from this monitoring requirement or tests performed by the North Carolina Division of Environmental Management indicate potential impacts to the receiving stream, this permit may be re -opened and modified. to include alternate monitoring requirements or limits. NOTE: Failure to achieve test conditions as specified in the cited document, such as minimum control organism survival and appropriate environmental controls, shall constitute an invalid test and will require immediate retesting(within 30 days of initial monitoring event). Failure to submit suitable test results will constitute noncompliance with monitoring requirements.. A 7Q10 0.0 cfs Pemutted.Flow 4.0 MGD IWC 99.4 % . Basin & Sub -basin 03-04-03 Receiving Stream Terrible Creek County Wake QCL P/F Version 9191 Recommended Date Z5 Farrell Keough 1991 5 Facility Name Fuquay-Varina Terrible Cr. WWTP Permit # NCO066516 Pipe # 001 CHRONIC TOXICITY PASS/FAIL PERMIT LIMIT (QRTRLY) The effluent discharge shall at no time exhibit chronic toxicity using test procedures outlined in: 1.) The North Carolina Ceriodaphnia chronic effluent bioassay procedure (North Carolina Chronic Bioassay Procedure - Revised *September 1989) or subsequent versions. The effluent concentration at which there may be no observable inhibition of reproduction or significant mortality is 90 % (defined as treatment two in the North Carolina procedure document). The permit holder shall perform ,quarterly monitoring using this procedure to establish compliance with the permit condition. The first test will be performed after thirty days from the effective date of this permit during the months of Mar., Jun., Sep., and Dec. Effluent sampling for this testing shall be performed at the NPDES permitted final effluent discharge below all treatment processes. All toxicity testing results required as part of this permit condition will be entered on the Effluent Discharge Monitoring Form (MR-1) for the month in which it was performed, using the parameter code TGP3B. Additionally, DEM Form AT-1 (original) is to be sent to the following address: Attention: Environmental Sciences Branch North Carolina Division of Environmental Management 4401 Reedy Creek Road Raleigh, N.C. 27607 Test data shall be complete and accurate and include all supporting chemical/physicalmeasurements performed in association with, the toxicity tests, as well as all dose/response data. Total residual chlorine of the effluent toxicity sample must be measured and reported if chlorine is employed for disinfection of the waste stream. Should any single quarterly monitoring indicate a failure to meet specified limits, then monthly monitoring will begin immediately until such time that a single test -is passed. Upon passing, this monthly test requirement will revert to quarterly in the months specified above. Should any test data from this monitoring requirement or tests performed by the North Carolina Division of Environmental Management indicate potential impacts to the receiving stream, this permit may be re -opened and modified to include alternate monitoring requirements or limits. NOTE: Failure to achieve test- conditions as specified in the 'cited document, such as minimum control organism survival and appropriate environmental controls, shall constitute an invalid test and will require immediate retesting(within 30 days of initial monitoring event). Failure to submit suitable test results will constitute noncompliance with monitoring requirements. A 7Q10 0.0 cfs Pennnitted Flow 6.0 MGD Recommended by `�► IWC . 99.6 % _ Basin & Sub -basin 03-04-03 Receiving Stream Terrible Creek County Wake _Date QCL P/F Version 9191 Farrell Keough ZS Oc4ecie , ►at53 SOC PRIORITY PROJECT: Yes No ✓ If Yes, SOC No. _ To: Permits and Engineering Unit Water Quality Section Attention: (Greg Nizich) Date August 13, 1993 NPDES STAFF REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION County Wake Permit No. NC0066516 Renewal r c �SUppCRr 9RAN i PART I - GENERAL INFORMATION -Varina Terrible Creek of Fu ua 1. Facility and Address: Town q y WWTP c/o 1300 E. Academy Street Fuquay-Varina, N.C. 27526 2. Date of Investigation: August 13, 1993 3. Report Prepared by: Michael C. Wicker 4. Persons Contacted and Telephone Number:L.W. Bennent, Town Manager, 919-552-3178 5. Directions to Site: Hwy 401 South from Raleigh, left on SR2751 (Hilltop Rd.), travel to Terrible Creek bridge proposed discharge and WWTP site is to the right 6. Discharge Point(s), List for all discharge points: Latitude: 35036'50" Longitude:78°43'32" Attach a USGS map extract and indicate treatment facility site and discharge point on map. U.S.G.S. Quad No. E24SW U.S.G.S. Quad Name Angier, N.C. 7. Site size and expansion area consistent with application ? X Yes No If No, explain: 8. Topography (relationship to flood plain included): The site slopes moderately ( less than 10% ) upward from the creek to the proposed treatment plant site, which is above the flood plain. The lower area appears to be wetland and plant acccess may have to cross this area. A 404 permit may be necessary. 9. Location of nearest dwelling: There are a few houses which are several hundred feet from the proposed treatment plant, and one which is about 300 feet from the proposed discharge. 1 SOC PRIORITY PROJECT: If Yes, SOC No. Yes No ti - 10. Receiving stream or affected surface waters: Terrible Creek a. Classification: C NSW b. River Basin and Subbasin No.: Neuse 03:04:03 C. Describe receiving stream features and pertinent downstream uses: The creek bed is about 20 feet wide, and the creek was about 1 foot deep and fast flowing at the proposed discharge site at the time of the visit. Upstream dischargers to Terrible Creek include a swimming pool backwash at Bentwinds Country Club which formerly held an NPDES permit . No other facilities are noted. The NPDES permit for Willow Springs Elementary School has been rescinded. It formerly discharged upstream. No downstream dischargers are known. Cow pastures are located downstream and run-off may affect future downstream monitoring. Terrible Creek flows into Middle Creek. These waters are rated Fair -Good and Support -Threatened in the Neuse River Basin Study. PART II - DESCRIPTION OF DISCHARGE AND TREATMENT WORKS 1. a. Volume of Wastewater to be permitted: 6.0 MGD(Ultimate Design Capacity) with 2.0 MGD phased increments b. What is the current permitted capacity of the Waste Water Treatment facility? 6.0 MGD with 2.0 mgd phased increments C. Actual treatment capacity of the current facility (current design capacity)? facility not constructed to date d. Date(s) and construction activities allowed by previous Authorization to Construct issued in the previous two years: none to date e. Please provide a description of existing or substantially constructed wastewater treatment facilities: none to date f. Please provide a description of proposed wastewater treatment facilities: 6.0 MGD WWTP to be constructed in 2.0 MGD increments consisting of mechanical bar screens, aerated grit chamber, aerated flow equalization basins, instrumented flow measurement, extended aeration/nitrification/denitrification basins, chemical conditioning, final sedimentation clarifiers, tertiary filters,ultraviolet disinfection, post aeration, aerobic sludge holding, sludge thickening facilities, and sludge land application and associated pumps, piping, laboratory facilities, and stand-by power. g. Possible toxic impacts to surface waters: industrial constiuents in waste stream, ammonia in waste stream SOC PRIORITY PROJECT: Yes No If Yes, SOC No. y h. Pretreatment Program (POTWs only): in development approved X should be required not needed 2. Residuals handling and utilization/disposal scheme: a. If residuals are being land applied,, please specify DEM permit no. W 0000506 for sludges from existing Kenneth Branch WWTP , sited for 150.000 gal/vr on 3._25 acres required, it is anticipated this future sludge from Terrible Creek will be disposed of similarily Residual Contractor Wallace Woodall Telephone No. (919) 387-1906 b. Residuals stabilization: PSRP X PFRP Other C. Landfill: d. Other disposal/utilization scheme (Specify): 3. Treatment plant classification (attach completed rating sheet): Class IV 4. SIC Code(s): 4952 Wastewater Code(s) of actual wastewater, not particular facilities i.e.., non -contact cooling water discharge from a metal plating company would be 14, not 56. Primary 01 Secondary Main Treatment Unit Code: 05 06 00 03 PART III - OTHER PERTINENT INFORMATION 1. Is this facility being constructed with Construction Grant Funds or are any public monies involved. (municipals only)? This facility is currently on the Construction Grants -and Loans Priority List for funding in FY98 and is of low priority. Town funds and/or bonds may initiate construction prior to this date. 2. Special monitoring or limitations (including toxicity) requests: existing monitoring for suspected industrial components from the pretreatment program data, ammonia and residual chlorine and chronic toxicity appear necessary -in renewal 3. Important SOC, JOC or Compliance Schedule dates: (Please .indicate) Date Submission of Plans and Specifications Begin Construction Complete Construction ' SOC PRIORITY PROJECT: Yes No If Yes, SOC No. Y 4. Alternative Analysis -Evaluation: Has the facility evaluated all of the non -discharge options available. Please provide regional perspective for each option evaluated. Spray Irrigation: not economically feasible in this area Connection to Regional Sewer System: N/A Subsurface: N/A Other disposal options: 5. Other Special Items: It has been recommended previously that an environmental review be required at each 2.0 mgd increment expansion. PART IV - EVALUATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS The RRO has reviewed the request for renewal of.NPDES permit no. NC0066516, for the proposed wastewater treatment facilities to. serve the Town of Fuquay-Varina, discharging into Terrible Creek ( C NSW ) in the Neuse River Basin. The proposed facility is necessary as indicated in the reported flows at the existing Town of Fuquay-Varina's Kenneth Branch Wastewater Treatment Facility. This existing facility is operating at over 80% permitted capacity and is subject to the requirements of-T15A: 02H .0223. DEM has notified the permittee of this requirement. The proposed facility will help in this situation. The existing limits and conditions for the 2.0 mgd, 4.0 mgd, and 6.0 mgd discharges from this proposed facility .appear to be in accordance with DEM policy for discharges to 0 cfs 7Q10 streams. It is recommended the supplemental page to the permit address the phased construction and requirement for separate ATC approvals of each phase. The FNSI issued August 3, -1990 recommended that the environmental assessment be updated prior to DEM approval of each future expansion. The definition of "new" facilities would apply to this proposed facility and therefore this renewal is subject to updated information as required under the guidelines set forth in the 15A 2H.O103 regulations. The RRO recommends renewal of NPDES permit no. NC0066515 to the Town of Fuquay-Varina in accordance with the basin wide permitting plan for the Neuse River Basin. SOC PRIORITY PROJECT: If Yes, SOC No. Yes No Signature of report preparer "'Rater Qu lity Regional Supervisor Date s,1' UNITED STATES 0- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Ic 1+1 V, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 78 45' 704000mE. 705 706 MC CULLERS CROSSROAD.'. .1 Mi. 42-30" 35*37'302 1Z 61 7: ny� 13 I P\ 32440DOm-N. 350 01% t Pji F68ED - --DIScHARG.E 0 iblej,, /,-POINT Oo! 3 -A "43 V:K 53 6 c- V 3942 50 '00 . .. .. ............ s 3 6 (png "41 2 53. illo. in 0. Ir RO. 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