NC0087866_Comments_20240408

From: ROBERT FREDERICK
To: SVC DEQ.publiccomments
Subject: [External] John F. Kime WTP NCO087866
Date: Monday, April 8, 2024 11:34:05 PM
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This is a public comment regarding NPDES Permit Renewal for Permit Number NC0089866.
My name is Robert Frederick, a citizen of Jamestown, NC. Our town is in Guildford County.
But even though some measure of our drinking water comes from Randleman reservoir, I've
learned from a NCDPES source that public notice for this permit renewal was only advertised
in Randolph County. That restriction seems very odd to me, and the source of this information
is a March 5, 2024 letter from Sara Bassett at NPDES to Mr. Greg Flory stating notice is only
required in "newspapers having circulation in the general Randolph County area, per EPA
requirements."
So first off, I ask that you please provide public notice to everyone who gets water from
Randleman Reservoir, and I'd like to see the citation, please of those EPA requirements of
which Ms. Bassett writes.
Now, in reviewing the April 5, 2022 permit renewal (why has it taken 2 years to get to this
point?) the same Mr. Flory reports "We would like to note that we are currently investigating
why our facility has had issues passing chronic toxicity over the past year." In addition, Mr.
Flory writes, "we are working to source an additional laboratory in the region capable of
performing this analysis so that we can conduct quality control sampling on the facility we are
currently using." Mr. Flory then calls into question that the testing lab is having "quality
control issues" or that "travel time to the facility and other external factors may potentially be
negatively affecting our results."
Years later, February 9, 2024, Jennifer F Graznak of the NCDEQ reports an item of concern to
Mr. Flory that the lab being used "has not been listed in the laboratories used on discharge
monitoring reports (DMRs). All labs used to analyze required parameters must be listed on
that month's DMR."
Returning to the aforementioned March 5, 2024 letter, the additional parameters "believed
present" — sulfate, bromine, chloroform, quintoline, strontium, vanadium, and nitrate -nitrite
are only to be monitored going forward, after approval of the new permit? So conceivably
we've been drinking these toxic chemicals for the past two years (or more)? And all of this
testing has been going on with potentially unqualified labs for which Mr. Flory himself —
over two years ago — both said they had sourced but then he casting doubt because they
found chronic toxicity? And this year, February 2024 there's an inspection showing a
further "item of concern" regarding using a qualified lab? It appears so according to these
aforementioned public records, which I have only had a short time to review.
This is no time to approve a permit. This is a time to look carefully at what's been going on

with the PTRWA, the testing (or lack thereof), and a full public hearing with proper public
notice to all concerned parties, particularly those of us who have been drinking this water for
years.
Thank you for your consideration,
Robert Frederick
336.898.1500
refrederickn_.me. com
500 Wyndwood Drive
Jamestown, NC 27282