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Return Receipt Requested
July 05, 2023
K Owen Scott, Mayor
Town of Littleton
PO Box 87
Littleton, NC 27850-0087
SUBJECT: NOTICE OF VIOLATION
Tracking Number: NOV-2023-DV-0269
Sanitary Sewer Overflows - June 2023
Collection System Permit No. WQCS00236
Littleton Collection System
Halifax County
Dear Mayor Scott:
The self-reported Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) 5-Day Report submitted by Town of Littleton 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
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
202300985 6/27/2023 210 222 Oak St, Littleton, Debris in line 3,000 0 Notice of Violation
NC, 27850 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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)
in the response. The submittal will be considered in determining whether the Division will assess a civil penalty for
the cited violations.
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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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