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Return Receipt Requested
August 10, 2023
Whit Wheeler, Assistant Director
City of Raleigh
PO Box 590
Raleigh, NC 27602-0590
SUBJECT: NOTICE OF VIOLATION
Tracking Number: NOV-2023-DV-0317
Sanitary Sewer Overflows - July 2023
Collection System Permit No. WQCS00002
Raleigh Collection System
Wake County
Dear Mr. Wheeler:
The self-reported Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) 5-Day Report submitted by City of Raleigh 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
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
202301127 7/31/2023 94 7900 Twin Oak Ct, Grease 940 940 Notice of Violation
Raleigh, NC, 27615 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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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