NCG550073_Compliance Evaluation Inspection_20110209

RECEIVED
FEB 1 6 2011
miatlai Processing Unit NCDENR
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Division of Water Quality
Beverly Eaves Perdue
Governor Coleen H. Sullins
Director Dee Freeman
February 9, 2011 Secretary
Heather Aloor
5420 Bobcat Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Subject: Compliance Evaluation Inspection
Single Family Wastewater Treatment System
Permit No. NCG550073
Orange County
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On January 31, 2011, Mitch Hayes from the Raleigh Regional Office visited your single-family
residence (SFR) wastewater treatment system to evaluate compliance with the above permit to discharge
wastewater. The assistance Jim Aloor provided over the phone was eatl g
boxes below show what conditions were noted at your facility: yappreciated. The checked
® In compliance. You are reminded to regularly maintain the chlorine disinfection and
dechlorination systems, have the effluent sampled once a year, and have the septic tank pumped
out every 3 to 5 years. Your good record of operation and meeting the permit requirements is
highly commended. Jim Aloor stated over the phone that the data from last year's effluent
analyses would be emailed to me.
❑ Your home is improperly plumbed. Some of the wastewater discharges are going directly
to the environment without first passing through the treatment system. This must be corrected
immediately. Please submit a schedule to this office within 20 da s of recei t of this letter that
states our lan for correctin this deficient The work is to be col lewd within the next 3
months.
❑ Disinfection. Your system is lacking disinfection, either chlorine tablets
or a ht
system. New rules put into place on August 1, 2007 require all SFR systems to have al means of
disinfection (and dechlorination when chlorine tablets are used to disinfect, if the system was
installed since that date). Since your system had no disinfection, the installation is to include a
chlorine tablet dispenser, a contact chamber capable of providing a minimum 30 minute contact
time, and another tablet dispenser that will hold dechlorination tablets. Please submit a schedule
to this office within 20 calendar da s of recei t of this letter that states our lan for correctin
this deficiency
❑ Treatment tablets missing or are wrong kind. You are responsible for always having
chlorine tablets and dechlorination tablets (if a required part of your system) in place. They must
be the kind for wastewater treatment and not for swimming pools.
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❑ Dechlorination. Your system was installed after August 1, 2007, so must have a means of
dechlorination located downstream of the chlorinator and its contact chamber. See Disinfection
paragraph above. Please submit a schedule to this office within 20 calendar days of receipt of
this letter stating your plan for correcting this deficiency.
❑ Pumping the septic tank. You are to have the septic tank pumped out every 3 to 5 years. A
pumping company can check the status periodically and determine when pumping is required.
Failure to analyze the effluent from your system once each year. See Part I(A)of your
permit about his requirement. Attached is a list of laboratories in NC certified to provide this
service. Make arrangements for sampling to be carried out within the next 3 months, and submit
results to this office within 3 weeks after the sampling has been done.
❑ Locations of treatment units are unknown. Determine this and report to this office within
30 days of receipt of this letter with a sketch or map.
❑ Other:
If you have questions or comments about this inspection please contact me at 919-791-4261.
Sincerely,
A/06
Mitch Hayes
Environmental Specialist
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