NC0083071_Permit Issuance_20071030

Michael F. Easley, Governor
William G. Ross Jr., Secretary
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
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October 30, 2007
The Honorable Bobby Cagle, Jr.
Town of Robbinsville
P.O. Box 126
Robbinsville, North Carolina
Subject: Issuance of NPDES
Permit NCO083071
Robbinsville WTP
Graham County
Dear Mayor Cagle:
Coleen H. Sullins, Director
Division of Water Quality
Division personnel have reviewed and approved your application for renewal of the subject permit.
Accordingly, we are forwarding the attached NPDES discharge permit. This permit is issued pursuant to
the requirements of North Carolina General Statute 143-215.1 and the Memorandum of Agreement
between North Carolina and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency dated May 9, 1994 (or as
subsequently amended).
This permit includes no major changes from the draft permit sent to you on August 29, 2007.
If any parts, measurement frequencies or sampling requirements contained in this permit are unacceptable to
you, you have the right to an adjudicatory hearing upon written request within thirty (30) days following receipt of
this letter. This request must be in the form of a written petition, conforming to Chapter 150E of the North
Carolina General Statutes, and filed with the Office of Administrative Hearings (6714 Mail Service Center,
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-6714). Unless such demand is made, this decision shall be final and binding.
Please note that this permit is not transferable except after notice to the Division. The Division may require
modification or revocation and reissuance of the permit. This permit does not affect the legal requirements to
obtain other permits which may be required by the Division of Water Quality or permits required by the Division of
Land Resources, the Coastal Area Management Act or any other Federal or Local governmental permit that may
be required. If you have any questions concerning this permit, please contact Bob Guerra at telephone number
[phone], extension 539.
Sincerely,/; L/��
Coleen H. Sullins
Enclosure: NPDES Permit NCO083071
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Permit NCO083071
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
DIVISION OF WATER QUALITY
PERMIT
TO DISCHARGE WASTEWATER UNDER THE
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM
In compliance with the provision of North Carolina General Statute 143-215.1, other
lawful standards and regulations promulgated and adopted by the North Carolina
Environmental Management Commission, and the Federal Water Pollution Control
Act, as amended, the
Town of Robbinsville
is hereby authorized to discharge wastewater from a facility located at the
Robbinsville WTP
NCSR 1110
Graham County
to receiving waters designated as Rock Creek in the Little Tennessee River Basin in
accordance with effluent limitations, monitoring requirements, and other conditions
set forth in Parts I, II, III and IV hereof.
This permit shall become effective December 1, 2007.
This permit and authorization to discharge shaU expire- at midnight on November 30,
2012.
Signed this day October 30, 2007.
Coleen H. Sullins, Director
Division of Water Quality
By Authority of the Environmental Management Commission

Permit NC0083071
SUPPLEMENT TO PERMIT COVER SHEET
All previous NPDES Permits issued to this facility, whether for operation or discharge
are hereby revoked. As of this permit issuance, any previously issued permit bearing
this number is no longer effective. Therefore, the exclusive authority to operate and
discharge from this facility arises under the permit conditions, requirements, terms,
and provisions included herein.
The Town of Robbinsvine is hereby authorized to:
1. Continue to operate a Water Treatment plant producing drinking water with a
discharge of filter -backwash wastewater.
2. This facility is located 3.4 miles South of the Town of Robbinsville on NCSR 1110
in Graham County.
3. The Town of Robbinsville WTP consists of:
• A 150-gpm treatment plant with Iron removal filters and brine regenerated ion
exchange water softeners
• . Backwash from the filters consists of dechlorinated (or non -chlorinated) filter
and backwash wastewater and softeners
• The wastewater is accumulated in a holding tank, dechlorinated and pumped
via a force main to the discharge point
4. Discharge from said treatment works at the location specified on the attached map
into the Rock Creek, classified C-Trout, HQW waters in the Little Tennessee River
Basin.

Town of Robbinsville WTP
Facility
Location
Latitude: 350 16' 46" N State Grid: Robbinsville, NC
not to scale
Longitude: 83° 49' 05" W Permitted Flaw: 0300 MGD
Receivine Stream: Rock Creek Drainage Basin: Little Tennessee River Basin
NPDES Permit No. NCO083071
Stream Class: C-Trout HWQ Sub -Basin: 04-04-04
North
Graham 0ounty

Permit NC0083071
A. (I.) EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS AND MONITORING REQUIREMENTS
During the period beginning on the effective date of this permit and lasting until expiration, the
Permittee is authorized to discharge filter backwash from outfall 001. Such discharges shall be limited
and monitored by the Permittee as specified below:
Effluen£=
Limits
'2 F FT
Mdnito mg Requirements, `
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Characteristics
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,Monthly,`baily
rNIeasuremeat
Sample Typed
Sample Location "
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Flow
Monitor & Report
Weekly
Estimate
Effluent
Total Suspended Solids
30.0 m L 45.0 m L
2 Month
Grab
Effluent
Settleable Solids
0.1 m L 0.2 m L
Weekly
Grab
Effluent
Turbidity'
Monitor & Report
Weekly
Grab
Upstream &
Downstream
Iron
Monitor & Report
Weekly
Grab
Effluent
Total Residual Chlorine2
1 17.0 u L
weekly
Grab
Effluent
Aluminum
Monitor & Report
weekly
Grab
Effluent
Footnotes:
1. The discharge shall not cause the turbidity of the receiving water to exceed 10 NTU. If the
turbidity exceeds these levels due to natural background conditions, the discharge level cannot
cause any increase in the turbidity in the receiving water.
2. A total residual chlorine (TRC) limit has been added to this permit. The limit will take June 1,
2008_ Until the limit takes effect, the permittee shall monitor TRC with no effluent limit.
All samples collected should be from a representative discharge event.
There shall be no discharge of floating solids or visible foam in other than trace
amounts.

NORTH CAROLINA
GRAHAM COUNTY
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
Before the undersigned, Nancy Waldroup, a Notary Public of Graham County
and North Carolina, duly commissioned, qualified and authorized by law to ad-
minister oaths, personally appeared, Barbara Bonnette, who, being duly sworn,
deposes and says: that she is the Typesetter of The Graham Star, engaged in
the publication of a newspaper known as The Graham Star, published, issued
and entered as periodical mail in the Town of Robbinsville, in Graham County,
in the state of North Carolina. That she is authorized to make this affidavit and
sworn statement: That the notice or other legal advertisement — a true copy of
which is attached hereto — was published in The Graham Star on the following
dates � A. G , ? 001 and that The Graham Star in
which such notice, paper, document or legal advertisement was published was,/
at the time of each and every such publication, a newspaper meeting all of the
requirements and qualifications of Section 1-597 of the General Statutes of North
Carolina and was a qualified newspaper within the meaning of Section 1-597 of
the General Statutes of North Carolina.
fh
This day of , 2007.
Barbara Bonnette
Sworn to and subscribed before me this day of ,
2007.
(Notary Public)
My commission expires Wy r± :fssio �'xn?rem :firL Ao9�,

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PUBLIC NOTICE
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGEMENT COMMIS-
-. SION/NPDES UNIT
1617 MAIL SERVICE CENTER
RALEIGH, NC 27699-1617
NOTIFICATION OF INTENT
TO ISSUE A NPDES
WASTEWATER PERMIT
On the basis of thorough staff
review and application of NC
General Statute 143.21, Public
law 92-500 and other lawful
standards and regulations, the
North Carolina Environmental
Management Commission pro-
poses to issue a National Pollut-
ant Discharge Elimination System
(NPDES) wastewater discharge
permit to the person(s) listed
below effective 45 days from the
publish date of this notice.
Written comments regarding the
proposed permit will be accepted
until 30 days after the publish
date of this notice. All comments
received -prior to that-date-aie-
considered in the final detefmi-,
nations regarding the proposed
permit. The Director of the NC
Division of Water Quality may
decide to hold a public meeting
for the proposed permit should
the division receive a significant
degree of public interest
Copies of the draft permit and
other supporting information on
file used to determine conditions
present in the draft permit are
available upon request and pay-
ment of the costs of reproduction.
Mail comments and/or requests
for information to the NC Division
of Water Quality at the above
address or call Dina Sprinkle
[phone], extension 363 at
the Point Source Branch. Please
include the NPDES permit number
(attached) in any communication.
Interested persons may also visit
the Division of Water Quality at
512 N. Salisbury Street, Raleigh,
NC 27604-1148 between the
hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
to review information on file -
Coldwater Farms, Inc. NPDES
NC0079090, has applied for
renewal of Its permit for a facil-
ity located on Snowbird Road,
-Robbinsville, Graham County.
The facility discharges waste-
water from a trout farm through
one outfall into Snowbird Creek,
a Class C-Trout Stream in the
Little Tennessee River Basin. Cur-
rently, total suspended solids and
settleable matter are water quality
limited. This discharge may affect
future allocations in this portion of
Snowbird Creek.
NCO025879: The Town of Rob
binsville, fP.O- Box"929,"Rob-
binsville,-NC 28771) ;has applied
for renewal of its;WWTP permit
todischarge treated domestic
wastewater to Long Creek in
the Little Tennessee River Basin.
Currently ammonia nitrogen, fecal
coliform, BOD5 and total residual
chlorine are water quality limited.
This discharge may affect future
allocations in this portion of Long
Creek.
NC0083071, ,The Town of Rob-
_binsville.`(PA. Box 129, Rob-
binsville, NC 28771) WTP has
applied for renewal of its permit
discharging filter -backwash to
Rock Creek in the Little Tennes-
see River Basin. No parameters
are water -quality limited. Cur-
rently, total suspended solids,
settleable solids and total residual
chlorine is water quality limited.
The discharge may affect future
allocations in this portion of the
Little Tennessee River.
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P.O. Box 126�Robbinsville, NC 28771 UJUN - 6 2007
828-479-3250 I
Mrs. Carolyn Bryant
828-479-6428
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NC DENR/DWQ/Point Source Branch
1617 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1617
Dear Mrs. Bryant:
This letter is to request renewal of Permit # NC0083071 for the Town of Robbinsvi le
Water Treatment Plant Lagoon. There have been no changes at the facility since th
issuance of the last permit. Any solids generated by this facility will be hauled to tl e
Town of Robbinsville W WTP #NC0025879. If you have any questions or need fur her
information please contact me at 828-479-3250; or Michael Ladd at 828-479-6428.
Sincerely
&Rob4ertCagCIe, Jr.; Mayor

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