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Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District [phone]
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October 20, 2023
CERTIFIED MAIL: 7005 3110 0001 6339 3040
RETURNED RECEIPT REQUESTED
Vanessa E. Manuel, Assistant Regional Supervisor
Water Quality Regional Operations Section
Raleigh Regional Office
1628 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1628
Re: Notice of Violation - Tracking Number: NOV-2023-DV-0365
Collection System Permit Number: WQCS00027
Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District (RRSD)
Halifax County
Dear Ms. Manuel,
Please be advised that ongoing remedial action is being taken to correct the deficiencies
in the collection system contributing to the sanitary sewer overflow in the referenced
NOV received October 16, 2023. Please note Incident 202301378, as reported in BIMS,
required a press release and public notice. All three incidents referenced in the NOV were
published in the public notice and proof of the publication is attached pursuant to NCGS
143-215.1 C(b)(2).
On September 23, 2023, Tropical Storm Ophelia produced 4.1" of rainfall locally in
Roanoke Rapids, NC. Attached is an image of Tropical Storm Ophelia as it passed
through North Carolina on the spill date. These chronic spill sites arise from high inflows
into the Belmont Pump Station located in sub -basin `A' of the collection system. Peak
wet weather flows to the Belmont Pump Station occasionally exceed the pumping
capacity in the existing pumps and when the pump station runs frequently the
downstream gravity sewer becomes surcharged and is at risk for overflows in several
shallow manholes.
On March 15, 2023, RRSD received a Belmont Pump Station Preliminary Engineering
Report which recommended increasing the pumping capacity at the pump station along
with rerouting the force main to a larger gravity line downstream with more capacity. On
September 29, 2023, RRSD submitted a Belmont Pump Station Improvement Project
Application for Funding to NCDEQ Division of Water Infrastructure requesting a
funding amount of $2,859,165. We are confident this project will eliminate the upstream
and downstream surcharging. We expect a response to this funding request in early 2024.
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We trust our actions are deemed adequate and prudent. Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District
greatly appreciates your time and consideration in this matter. Should you require
additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Sincerely,
11-7
Thomas C. Wrenn
Chief Executive Officer
Enclosures
cc: James E. Kerr, II, Chairman
David W. Scott, ORC
File
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PUBLIC NOTICE OF
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DISCHARGE OF
PUBLIC NOTICE OF DISCHARGE OF
UNTREATED SEWAGE
Tropical Storm Ophelia caused
Affidavit of Publication
heavy rain on Saturday.
September 23rd, 2023, leading
to Roanoke Rapids Sanitary
District having three wastewa-
STATE OF NC) SS
ter collection system spills. In
COUNTY OFHALIFAX }
the first instance, a total
wastewater spill of approxim-
ately 16,200 gallons spilled
Christy Williamson , being duly sworn, says:
from the wastewater collection
system from Manhole A54, sub -
That she is Christy Williamson, Ad Director of the The
basin 'A', located at Land St
Daily Herald, a daily newspaper of general circulation,
and an unopened portion of W.
printed and published in Roanoke Rapids, Halifax County,
4th St. The spill began at 2:00
NC; that the publication, a copy of which is attached
p, m. and ended at 6:30 p. m•
hereto, was published in the said newspaper on the
During the next two instances,
October 03, 2023
4,800 gallons and 2,400 gal-
lons are estimated to have
spilled from the wastewater col-
lection system from Manholes
B46 and B52, sub -basin 'B',
located at W 3rd St with Starke
Dr and Rapids St, respectively.
That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated
The spills began at 2:30 p.m.
on those dates.
and ended at 6:30 p.m. Approx-
NED:
imately 23,400 gallons of un-
treated wastewater discharged
into the waters of the state trib-
risty Willianton, Ad Director
utary to the Roanoke River in
Subscribed to and sworn to me this 3rd day of October
the Roanoke River Basin, In-
flow into the sewer collection
2023.
system exceeded the carrying
capacity of the pipes. Prepara-
tion is being made for all known
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repairs necessary to reduce the
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source of inflow to return the
pipe system to service and min -
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imize further discharge.
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