NC0082767_Permit Issuance_20010404

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NCDENR
Mr. Richard Canupe
Town Manager
P.O. Box 189
Spruce Pine, North Carolina 28777
Dear Mr. Canipe:
Michael F. Easley
Governor
William G. Ross, Jr., Secretary
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Kerr T. Stevens, Director
Division of Water Quality
April 4, 2001
Subject: Issuance of NPDES Permit NCO082767
Spruce Pine WTP
Mitchcll County
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 NI -ay 9, 1994 (or as subsequently amended).
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 150B 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 Charles Weaver at telephone number (919)
733-5083, extension 511.
Sincerely,
ORIGINAL SIGNED BY
SUSAN A. WILSON
Kerr T. Stevens
cc: Central Files
Asheville Regional Office/Water Quality Section
NPDES Unit
Point Source Compliance Enforcement Unit
N. C. Division of Water Quality / NPDES Unit Phone: [phone]
1617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1617 tax: [phone]
Internet: h2o.enr.state.nc.us DENR Customer Service Center. 1 800 623-7748

Permit NCO082767
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
DIVISION OF WATER QUALITY
PFRMTT
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 Spruce Pine
is hereby authorized to discharge wastewater from a facility located at the
Spruce Pine WTP
200 Clearwater Road
Spruce Pine
Mitchell County
to receiving waters designated as Beaver Creek in the French Broad 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 May 1, 2001.
This permit and authorization to discharge shall expire at midnight on February 28, 2006.
Signed this day April 4, 2001.
ORIGINAL SIGNED BY
SUSAN A. WILSON
Kerr T. Stevens, Director
Division of Water Quality
By Authority of the Environmental Management Commission

' Permit NC0082767
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SUPPLEMENT TO PERMIT COVER SHEET
The Town of Spruce Pine is hereby authorized to:
1. Continue to operate a water treatment plant with a discharge of filter -backwash
wastewater. This facility is located at the Spruce Pine MrM on Clearwater Road
near Spruce Pine in Mitchell County.---
2. Discharge from said treatment works at the location specified on the attached
map into Beaver Creek, classified C-Trout waters in the French Broad River
Basin.

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Latitude: 35°55'09"
Longitude: 82°03'38"
Quad #: DI ONE
Stream Class: C-Trout
Subbasin:40306
Receiving Stream: Beaver Creek
NCO082767
Spruce Pine WTP

Permit NCO082767
A. (L) EFFLUENT LD IITATIONS AND MONITORING REQUIREMENTS
During the period beginning on the effective date of this permit and lasting until expiration. the Permittee is
authorized to discharge from outfall 001. Such discharges shall be limited and monitored by the Permittee as
specified below:
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LIMITS
t� IRQt�IRM`S
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Flow
Weekly
Instantaneous
Effluent
Total Suspended Residue
30.0 mg/L
45.0 mg/L
2/1VIonth —
Grab
Effluent
Settleable Solids
0.1 mVL
0.2 mVL
Weekly
Grab
Effluent
Turbidityl
Weekly
Grab
Upstream & Downstream
Iron
Weekly
Grab
Effluent
Total Residual Chlorine
Weekly
Grab
Effluent
Aluminum
Weekly
Grab
Effluent
Footnotes:
1. The discharge from this facility shall not cause turbidity in the receiving stream to exceed 10 NTU. if the
instream turbidity exceeds'10 NTU due to natural background conditions, the discharge cannot cause
turbidity to increase in the receiving stream.
All samples must be collected from a typical discharge event.
There shall be no discharge of floating solids or visible foam in other than trace amounts.

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Certification
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MITCHELL NEWS -JOURNAL
Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, NC I weeks
114 to $ r1q. 80
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[l NEWS -JOURNAL
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Cost of Advertisment - r (4 . 0
Cost of Affidavit
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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF MITCHELL
I, John I- Whitfield, Publisher of the Mitchell News-Ioumal, a
newspaper published in Mitchell County, North Carolina, in
compliance with statutes G.S. 1-597 of North Carolina, as amended in
1947 session of General Assembly, being duly swom, certify that the
attached advertisement of
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consecutive weeks, beginning with the issue date
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(signed) 1Aw.
(Owner, rNer, Publisher or other
Employee Authorimd to make the affidavit)
Sworn to and subscribed before me this G day of
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Notary Pub�Mchellty
North Carolina
My Commission expires V 1 A00 4
Permit should the Division receive
a significant degree of public in-
terest.
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 -
merit of the costs of reproduction. I
Mail comments and/or requests ]
for information to the NC Division f
of Water Quality at the above ad-
dress or call Ms. Christie Jackson
at [phone], extension 538.
Please include the NPD ES permit
number (below) in any communi-
cation. Interested persons may
also visit the Division of Water
Quality at 512 N. Salisbury Street,
Raleigh, NC27604-1148 between
the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00
P.m. to review information on file.
NPDES Permit Number
' NC0082767. Town of Spruce Pine
(WTP), P.O. Box 189, Spruce
Pine, NC 28777 has applied for a
,,permit renewal for a facility lo-
cated in Mitchell County discharg-
ing filter -backwash wastewater
intn Beaver Creek in the French
Broad River Ba w, (Currently no
parameters are water quality lim-
ited. This discharge may affect
future allocations in this portion of
the receiving stream.
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MAR - 5 2001
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AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
BUNCOMBE COUNTY
SS.
NORTH CAROLINA
Before the undersigned, a Notary Public of said
County and State, duly commissioned, qualified and
authorized by law to administer oaths, personally
appeared Janis Pierce, who, being first duly sworn,
deposes and says: that he (she) is the Legal Billing
Clerk of TheAsheville Citizen -Times Company,
engaged in publication of a newspaper known as
The Asheville Citizen -Times, published, issued,
and entered as second class mail in the City of
Asheville, in said County and State; that he (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 Asheville Citizen -
Times on the following dates: February 9, 2001.
And that the said newspaper in which said notice,
paper, document or legal advertisement were
published were, at the time of each and every
publication, a newspaper meeting all of the
requirements and qualifications of Section 1-597 of
the General Statues of North Carolina and was a
qualified newspaper within the meaning of Section
1-597 of the General Statues of North Carolina.
This 14th day of February, 2001
4e4r.r,-,,
(signature of per i making affidavit)
Sworn to and subscribed before me the 14th day of
February, 2001.
(Notary Pu" " — - - -
My Commission expires. the 20th day of June, 2Qp5�
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February 9, 2001
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To: Division of Water Quality
CC: Mr. Charles R Weaver
From: Town of Spruce Pine
Date: 1/24/01
Dear Mr. Weaver,
Mr. Weaver after further discussion with the town manager we would like to renew our permit. Our
permit number is NC0082767. This discharge location is at our water treatment facility. We currently
sending all our discharge to the wastewater treatment plant. We have been sending all of the backwash
water to the wastewater plant for several years. We would like to keep this permit in case we ever need to
discharge to the creek. We would also like to keep this permit in case the permit limits at the sewer plant
drops. Enclosed is the permit application.
R ell Lankford
I.
Project Manager
American Water Services