NC0033227_NOVNOI2023LM0019_Response_20230330

P.O. Box 1325 Asheville, N.C. 28802
(828)-251-1900 (828)-251-1945

March 30, 2023

Mr. Dan Boss
North Carolina Department of
Environmental Health and Natural Resources
Water Quality Section
2090 U.S. Highway 70
Swannanoa, NC 28778

Re: Notice of Violation
NOV-2023-LM-0019
NPDES Permit NC0033227 TE Connectivity
Buncombe County

Dear Dan,

This letter is written on behalf of the TE Connectivity to provide information as to
remedial action taken to the above referenced facility in reference to NOV-2023-LM-
0019 attached.

As stated in our monthly report, RPB Systems started operations for TE Connectivity on
6-20-23 and understood James & James resigned on 6-17-23. We sampled TSS on 6-22-
23 with a result of 30.8 mg/L which appeared to match the condition of the wastewater
plant in our first week of operation. We later found out James & James collected a TSS
the day before our first sample with a result of 306 mg/L. We do not accept this test
result from James & James as an accurate result based on observations and test results the
day after from our third party lab, Pace Analytical. Even the NH3N results of 42.8 mg/L
verses our 28.9 mg/L taken a day apart are abnormal.

When this was discovered we reached out to you to see if the results of James & James
could be excluded since we did not sample these and were unaware of the sampling event
days after they ended their services. We were told we had to report their data as well as
ours, which we complied with. As a result we were in violation for daily and monthly
TSS.

The monitoring violations for dissolved oxygen and pH, missing from the first week of
June were before we began inspecting the system. The data up to the start of our
operation on 6-20-23 were from the field sheet from James & James sent to the owner.
The sheet is attached for your review. We had assumed the data would be included in
the DO and pH on the last Tuesday of May, since this is their normal sampling and field
test date.

NOV-2023-LM-0019 Page 2
March 30, 2023

I trust you will call if you have any further questions or concerns.

Robert Barr

Robert Barr