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Return Receipt Requested
July 05, 2023
Donald F Greeley
City of Durham
101 City Hall Plz
Durham, NC 27701-3329
SUBJECT: NOTICE OF VIOLATION
Tracking Number: NOV-2023-DV-0267
Sanitary Sewer Overflows - June 2023
Collection System Permit No. WQCS00005
Durham Collection System
Durham County
Dear Mr. Greeley:
The self-reported Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) 5-Day Report submitted by City of Durham indicates violations
of permit conditions stipulated in the subject permit and North Carolina G.S. 143-215.1. Violations include failing to
effectively manage, maintain, and operate the subject collection system so that there is no SSO to the land or
surface waters and making an outlet to waters of the State for purposes of G.S. 143-215.1(a)(1), for which a
permit is required.
Specific incident(s) cited in the subject report include the following:
Total Vol
Total Surface
Incident Start Duration Vol Water
Number Date (Mins) Location Cause (Gals) (Gals) DWR Action
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
202300886 6/1/2023 142 1805 Milan St, Other 710 710 Notice of Violation
Durham, NC, 27704
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
202300901 6/9/2023 55 419 Monticello Ave, Joint Failure 130 130 Notice of Deficiency
Durham, NC, 27707 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Remedial actions, if not already implemented, should be taken to correct the above noncompliance. Please submit
a written response to this Notice of Violation. Your response is to be received by the regional office within 15
business days following receipt of this violation. Please include any additional documentation about this incident(s)
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in the response. The submittal will be considered in determining whether the Division will assess a civil penalty for
the cited violations.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Kevin Fowler with the Water Quality Section in the
Raleigh Regional Office at 919-791-4200 or via email at kevin.fowler@deq.nc.gov.
Sincerely,
Scott Vinson, Regional Supervisor
Water Quality Regional Operations Section
Raleigh Regional Office
Division of Water Resources, NCDEQ
Cc: Laserfische
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