400050_NOD-2024-PC-0008_20240130

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ROY COOPER
Governor
ELIZABETH S. BISER
Secretary
RICHARD E. ROGERS, JR.
Director
Rachel I. Moye
Rachel Moye Farm
2836 Ormondsville Road
Ayden, North Carolina 28513
NORTH CAROLINA
Environmental Quality
January 30, 2024
Subject: Notice of Deficiency - Freeboard Level
Rachel Moye Farm, #40-50
AWS400050
Greene County
NOD-2024-PC-0008
Dear Rachel Moye:
Thank you for your recent notification regarding the freeboard levels at your facilities. On
January 16, 2024, staff of the NC Division of Water Resources (DWR) received a call reporting
a high freeboard level of (16 inches) in the big lagoon and (18 inches) in the small lagoon.
As a result of this incident, you are hereby notified that, having been permitted to have a non -
discharge permit for the subject animal waste disposal system pursuant to 15A NCAC 2T
Section .1300, you have been found to have insufficient freeboard in accordance with
the facility's Certified Animal Waste Management Plan and the NC Swine Waste Management
System General Permit No. AWG100000 that you are covered to operate under.
Deficiency 1:
Failure to maintain waste level in your lagoon/storage pond in accordance with the facility's
Certified Animal Waste Management Plan in Accordance with Condition V.2. of Swine Waste
Management System General Permit No. AWG100000.
On January 16, 2024, the lagoon/storage pond level (freeboard) was documented at 16 inches in
Big and 18 inches in Small lagoons. A level of 19 inches in each lagoon is the maximum level
allowed by your permit and Certified Animal Waste Management Plan.
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality I Division of Water Resources
✓ Washington Regional Offic@ 943 Washington Square ]Mall
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Corrective Action for Deficiency 1:
A 30-day Plan of Action was submitted on January 18, 2024, by Kaelyn Mohrfeld. Take all
necessary additional steps to ensure lagoon levels remain in compliance with Section 2 of your
permit.
You are required to take any necessary action to address the above violation. You are
required to provide a written response to this Notice, including any additional information
that you wish to provide related to this incident that you wish the Division to consider,
within 30 days of receipt of this letter. Please include in your response all corrective actions
already taken and a schedule for completion of any corrective actions not addressed.
Please continue to work to ensure that your facility is managed in a way to maintain compliance
with permit and animal waste management plan requirements. Failure to comply with conditions
in a permit may result in a recommendation of enforcement action, to the Director of the
Division of Water Quality who may issue a civil penalty assessment of not more that twenty-five
thousand ($25,000) dollars against any "person" who violates or fails to act in accordance with
the terms, conditions, or requirements of a permit under authority of G.S. 143-215.6A.
If you have any questions concerning this letter, please contact me at [phone].
Sincerely,
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David May, L.G., Supervisor
Water Quality Regional Operations Section
Division of Water Resources
Washington Regional Office
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