520008_Notice of Violation - Notice of Intent to Enforce_NOV-2024-DV-0334_20240826

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ROY COOPER
Governor
ELIZABETH S. BISER
Secretary
RICHARD E. ROGERS, JR.
Director
CERTIFIED MAIL
RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
CM#7019 2970 0001 3139 8305
Murphy -Brown LLC
PO Box 856
Warsaw, NC 28398
NORTH CAROLINA
Environmental Quality
August 26, 2024
Subject: Notice of Violation / Notice of Intent to Enforce
Farm 3509 & 3722 #52-8
AWS520008
Jones County
NOV-2024-DV-0334
Dear Murphy -Brown LLC.:
On August 21, 2024, staff of the NC Division of Water Resources (DWR), Water Quality
Regional Operations Section (WQROS) received notification of a discharge at your facility.
As a result of this incident, you are hereby notified that, having been permitted to have a non -
discharge permit for the subject animal waste disposal system pursuant to 15A NCAC 2T
Section .1300, you had a discharge to surface water in conflict with your Certified Animal Waste
Management Plan and the Swine Waste System General Permit No. AWG100000 that you are
covered to operate under. Specific violations follow.
Violation 1:
The discharge of wastewater to surface water in violation of the facility's Certified Animal
Waste Management Plan and with Condition I.1 of Swine Waste System General Permit No.
AWG100000.
On August 21, 2024, the Division received notification of a discharge at your facility. Upon
inspection the Division confirmed a discharge of wastewater that originated at a hydrant south of
the lagoon. The wastewater ran offsite and entered an unnamed tributary of the Trent River.
Samples have been collected with results pending.
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Division of Water Resources
Washington Regional Office - 943 Washington Square Mall - Washington, North Carolina, 27889
NORTHCARouNA JPI/ 252-946-6481

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Required Corrective Action for Violation 1:
Take all necessary additional steps to ensure that wastewater does not run off from any part of
your facility. Wastewater should be contained in the lagoon and when conditions permit, it
should be pumped onto healthy sprayfields at agronomic rates.
You are required to take any necessary action to address the above violation. You are
required to provide a written response to this Notice, including any additional information
that you wish to provide related to this incident that you wish the Division to consider,
within 10 days of receipt of this letter. Please include in your response all corrective actions
already taken and a schedule for completion of any corrective actions not addressed. 2024
freeboard, rainfall and irrigation records should also be included.
As a result of the violations in this Notice, this office is considering a recommendation for a civil
penalty assessment to the Director of the Division. If you wish to present an explanation for the
violations cited, or if you believe there are other factors, which should be considered, please send
such information to me in writing within ten (10) days following receipt of this letter. Your
response will be reviewed, and, if an enforcement action is still deemed appropriate, it will be
forwarded to the Director and included for consideration.
Failure to comply with conditions in a permit may result in a recommendation of enforcement
action, to the Director of the Division of Water Resources who may issue a civil penalty
assessment of not more than twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars against any "person" who
violates or fails to act in accordance with terms, conditions, or requirements of a permit under
authority of G.S. 143-215.6A.
If you have any questions concerning this Notice, please contact me at [phone].
Sincerely,
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David May, Supervisor
Water Quality Regional Operations Section
Division of Water Resources
Washington Regional Office
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