WQCS00018_NOV and Intent to Assess_20240228

ROY COOPER
Governor
ELIZABETH S. BISER
Secretary
RICHARD E. ROGERS, JR.
Director
Certified Mail # 7019 1120 0001 5505 1534
Return Receipt Reauested
Jon Mendenhall, City Manager
City of Eden
PO Box 70
Eden, NC 27289-0070
NORTH CAROLINA
Environmental Quality
February 20, 2024
SUBJECT: NOTICE OF VIOLATION & INTENT TO ISSUE CIVIL PENALTY
Tracking No.: NOV-2024-DV-0105
Sanitary Sewer Overflows - January 2024
Collection System Permit No. WQCS00018
Eden Collection System
Rockingham County
Dear Mr. Mendenhall:
A review has been conducted of the self -reported Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSO's) 5-Day Report/s submitted by
City of Eden. The Division's Winston-Salem Regional Office concludes that the City of Eden violated Permit
Condition I (2) of Permit No. WQCS00018 by failing to effectively manage, maintain, and operate their collection
system so that there is no SSO (Sanitary Sewer Overflow) to the land or surface waters and the SSO constituted
making an outlet to waters of the State for purposes of G.S. 143-215.1(a)(1), for which a permit is required by
G.S. 143-215.1.
The Winston-Salem Regional Office is providing the City of Eden an opportunity to provide evidence and
justification as to why the City of Eden should not be assessed a civil penalty for the violation(s) that are
summarized below:
Total Vol
Total
Surface
Incident
Start
Duration
Vol
Water
Number
Date
(Mins)
Location
Cause
(Gals)
(Gals) DWR Action
202400152
1/9/2024
619
699 LAKE STREET,
Inflow and
13,000
7,800 Notice of Violation
EDEN, 27288
Infiltration, Severe
Natural Condition
202400154
1/9/2024
60
239 NORTH HALE
Inflow and
1,500
1,500 Notice of Violation
STREET, EDEN, 27288
Infiltration, Severe
Natural Condition
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality i Division of Water Resources
Winston-5alem Regional Office 1 450 West Hanes Mill Road, Suite 300 1 Winston-Salem. North Carolina 27105
336.776.9500

Incident Start
Number Date
Duration
(Minn) Location Cause
Total Vol
Total Surface
Vol Water
(Gals) (Gals)
DWR Action
202400156 1/9/2024 60 696 VALLEY DRIVE, Inflow and 300 300 Notice of Violation
EDEN, 27288 Infiltration, Severe
Natural Condition
202400365 1/28/2024 869 699 LAKE STREET, Inflow and 8,700 4,350 Notice of Intent
EDEN, 27288 Infiltration, Severe
Natural Condition
This Notice of Violation / Notice of Intent to Enforce (NOV/NOI) is being issued for the noted violation. Pursuant
to G.S. 143-215.6A, a civil penalty of not more than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) may be assessed
against any person who violates or fails to act in accordance with the terms, conditions, or requirements of any
permit issued pursuant to G.S. 143-215.1.
This office requests that you respond to this Notice, in writing, within 10 business days of its
receipt. In your response, you should address the causes of non-compliance, remedial actions, and all other
actions taken to prevent the recurrence of similar situations. The response to this correspondence will be
considered in this process. Enforcement decisions will also be based on volume spilled, volume reaching surface
waters, duration and gravity, impacts to public health, fish kills or recreational area closures. Other factors
considered in determining the amount of the civil penalty are the violator's history of non-compliance, the cost of
rectifying the damage, whether the spill was intentional and whether money was saved by non-compliance.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Gary Hudson with the Water Quality Section in the
Winston-Salem Regional Office at 336-776-9800 or via email at [e-mail].
Sincerely,
DocuSiTG
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Lon T. Snider, Regional Supervisor
Water Quality Regional Operations Section
Winston-Salem Regional Office
Division of Water Resources, NCDEQ
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality I Division of Water Resources
Winston-Salem Regional Office 1 450 West Hanes Mill Road, Suite 300 1 Winston-Salem. North Carolina 27105
336 .776.9600