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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNC0075205_Renewal (Application)_20241007ROY COOPER Governor MARY PENNY KELLEY $MVP1ory RICHARD E. ROGERS. JR Director Wesley Bishop Aqua North Carolina Inc 202 Mackenan Ct Cary, NC 27511 Subject: Permit Renewal Application No. NCO075205 Alexander Island WWTP Iredell County Dear Applicant: NORTH CAROLINA Environmental Quality October 07, 2024 The Water Quality Permitting Section acknowledges the October 7, 2024 receipt of your permit renewal application and supporting documentation. Your application will be assigned to a permit writer within the Section's NPDES WW permitting branch. Per G.S. 150B-3 your current permit does not expire until permit decision on the application is made. Continuation of the current permit is contingent on timely and sufficient application for renewal of the current permit. The permit writer will contact you if additional information is required to complete your permit renewal. Please respond in a timely manner to requests for additional information necessary to allow a complete review of the application and renewal of the permit. Information regarding the status of your renewal application can be found online using the Department of Environmental Quality's Environmental Application Tracker at: https://www.deq.nc.gov/permits-rules/environmental-application-tracker If you have any additional questions about the permit, please contact the primary reviewer of the application using the links available within the Application Tracker. ec: WQPS Laserfiche File w/application Sincerely, % Cynthia Demery Administrative Assistant Water Quality Permitting Section North 0Depa"=M of Emronmental Qualky I Mvtslon d Water Resources MaomsWlle Reglonal Ofllce 1610 East Center Avenue, 5u1h M1 I M.,Aik, North Camtlna 26115 M4b63.1699 AQUA. 6 Essential October 2, 2024 Division of Water Resources Water Quality Permitting Section - NPDES 1617 Mail Service Center Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1617 Re: Application for Permit Renewal Aqua North Carolina, Inc. Alexander Island WWTP NPDES No. NCO075205 Iredell County To Whom It May Concern: RECEIVED OCT 07 2024 NCDEQ/DWR/NPDES Enclosed are three (3) copies of the completed application Form 2A and necessary attachments for your office to renew the subject permit. Should you need any additional information or assistance, please feel free to contact me via phone at (919) 653-6999 or by email at BMilliron@aquaamerica.com. Sincerely, �vv � Brent Milliron Environmental Compliance Director Aqua North Carolina, Inc. Enc: NPDES Application, Form 2A w/ attachments Alexander Island NCO075205 NPDES Permit Cc: Shannon Becker, President, Aqua North Carolina Lori Lester, Environmental Compliance Specialist 1 202 MacKenan Court, Cary, NC, 27511 • 919.467.8712 0 AquaAmerica.com NPDES Permit Number Facility Name Modified Application Pon 2A NCO075205 Alexander Island WWTP Modified March 2021 Form NC Department of Environmental Quality - Application for NPDES Permit to Discharge Wastewater MINOR SEWAGE FACILITIES (Before completing this form, please read the instructions. Failure to follow NPDES the instructions may result in denial of the application.) SECTION 1. BASIC APPLICATION INFORMATION FOR ALL APPLICANTS (40 CFR Facility name 1.1 Alexander Island Subdivision WWTP Mailing address (street or P.O. box) 0 C T 07 2024 108 Sailview Drive City or town State ZIP code o Mooresville NcNCDEQ D NPDES E Contact name (first and last) Title Phone number Email address o Brent Milliron Envir. Compliance Director (814) 312-5628 BMilliron@aquaamerica.com c Location address (street, route number, or other specific identifier) ✓❑ Same as mailing address Z m LL City or town State ZIP code 1.2 Is this application for a facility that has yet to commence discharge? ❑ Yes 4 See instructions on data submission ❑r No requirements for new dischargers. 1.3 Is applicant different from entity listed under Item 1.1 above? ❑✓ Yes ❑ No 4 SKIP to Item 1.4. Applicant name Aqua North Carolina Applicant address (street or P.O. box) 202 MacKenan Court E City or town State ZIP code 12 Cary NC 27511 Contact name (first and last) Title Phone number Email address n Brent Milliron Envir. Compliance Director (814) 312-5628 BMilliron@aquaamerica.com 1.4 Is the applicant the facility's owner, operator, or both? (Check only one response.) ❑ Owner ❑ Operator ❑r Both 1.5 To which entity should the NPDES permitting authority send correspondence? (Check only one response.) ❑ Facility ❑✓ Applicant ❑ Facility and applicant (they are one and the same) 1.6 Indicate below any existing environmental permits. (Check all that apply and print or type the corresponding permit number for each. € Existing Environmental Permits LL r❑ NPDES (discharges to surface ❑ RCRA (hazardous waste) UIC (underground injection � water) control ) E NCO075205 PSD (air emissions) ❑ Nonattainment program (CAA) ❑ NESHAPs (CAA) c W rn N ❑ Ocean dumping (MPRSA) ❑ Dredge or fill (CWA Section ❑ Other (specify) ux 404) Page 1 NPDES Permit Numher Facility Name Modified Application Fonn 2A NCO075205 Alexander Island W WTP Modified March 2021 1.7 Provide the collections stem information requested below for the treatment works. Municipality Population Collection System Type Ownership Status Served Served indicate percentage) 100 % separate sanitary sewer 0 Own ❑ Maintain 9„ Mooresville, NC 82 % combined storm and sanitary sewer ❑ Own ❑ Maintain t ❑ unknown ❑ Own ❑ Maintain % separate sanitary sewer ❑ Own ❑ Maintain _ % combined storm and sanitary sewer ❑ own ❑ Maintain ❑ Unknown ❑ own ❑ Maintain a% separate sanitary sewer ❑ Own ❑ Maintain -o % combined storm and sanitary sewer ❑ Own ❑ Maintain ❑ Unknown ❑ Own ❑ Maintain d % separate sanitary sewer ❑ Own ❑ Maintain % combined storm and sanitary sewer ❑ Own ❑ Maintain ❑ Unknown ❑ Own ❑ Maintain Total 82 Population < i Served Combined Storm and Separate Sanitary Sewer System Sanitary Sewer Total percentage of each type of 100 % % sewer line in miles 1.8 Is the treatment works located in Indian Country? c'o ❑ Yes ❑� No A1.9 Does the facility discharge to a receiving water that flows through Indian Country? ❑ Yes No 1.10 Provide design and actual flow rates in the designated spaces. Desi n Flow Rate 0.015 d Annual Average Flow Rates Actual a 2 Two Years Ago Last Year This Year of c c 0.0033 mgd 0.0042 mgd 0.0035 mgd " Maximum Daily Flow Rates Actual d � Two Years Ago Last Year This Year 0.009 mgd 0.025 mgd 0.025 mgd 1.11 Provide the total number of effluent discharge points to waters of the State of North Carolina by type. Total Number of Effluent Discha a Points b T e d Constructed d a P Treated Effluent Untreated Effluent Combined Sewer Overflows Bypasses Emergency = a Overflows U N � 1 Page 2 NPDES Permit Number Facility Name Modified Application Form 2A NCO075205 Alexander Island WWTP Modified March 2021 Outfalls Other Than to Waters of the State of North Carolina 1.12 Does the POTW discharge wastewater to basins, ponds, or other surface impoundments that do not have outlets for discharge to waters of the State of North Carolina? ❑ Yes ❑✓ No 4 SKIP to Item 1.14. 1.13 Provide the location of each surface impoundment and associated dischar a information in the table below. Surface III m oundmerd Location and Discharge Data Average Daily Volume Continuous or Intermittent Location Discharged to Surface (check one) Impoundment ❑ Continuous gpd ❑ Intermittent ❑ Continuous gpd ❑ Intermittent ❑ Continuous gpd ❑ Intermittent t 1.14 Is wastewater applied to land? M ❑ Yes ❑✓ No 4 SKIP to Item 1.16. N 1.15 Provide the land application site and discharge data requested below. N Land Application Site and Discharge Data o Average Deity Volume Continuous or 0 Location Size Applied Intermittent o check one L acres gpd ❑ Continuous o ❑ Intermittent ❑ Continuous s o acres gpd ❑ Intermittent � acres ❑ Continuous g� ❑ Intermittent 1.16 Is effluent transported to another facility for treatment prior to discharge? o' ❑ Yes ❑✓ No 4 SKIP to Item 1.21. 1.17 Describe the means by which the effluent is transported (e.g., tank truck, pipe). 1.18 Is the effluent transported by a party other than the applicant? ❑ Yes ❑ No 4 SKIP to Item 1.20. 1.19 Provide information on the transporter below. Trans orter Data Entity name Mailing address (street or P.O. box) City or town State ZIP code Contact name (first and last) Title Phone number Email address Page 3 NPDES Permit Number Facility Name Modified Application Form 2A NCO075205 Alexander Island WWTP Modified March 2021 1.20 In the table below, indicate the name, address, contact information, NPDES number, and average daily flow rate of the receiving facility. Receivin Faeil Data Facility name Mailing address (street or P.O. box) o m `E c City or town State ZIP code 0 U 9 Contact name (first and last) Title 0 d Phone number Email address o NPDES number of receiving facility (if any) ❑ None Average daily flow rate mgd a 1.21 Is the wastewater disposed of in a manner other than those already mentioned in Items 1.14 through 1.21 that do not have outlets to waters of the State of North Carolina (e.g., underground percolation, underground injection)? m A ❑ Yes ❑✓ No 4 SKIP to Item 1.23. L c1.22 Provide information in the table below on these other disposal methods. Information on Other Dis sal Methods o Disposal Location of Size of Annual Average Continuous or Intermittent ` Method Disposal Site Disposal Site Daily Discharge Volume (check one) a Description A acres 9Pd ❑ Continuous ❑ Intermittent 0 acres gPd ❑ Continuous ❑ Intermittent acres 9P d ❑ Continuous ❑ Intermittent 1.23 Do you intend to request or renew one or more of the variances authorized at 40 CFR 122.21(n)? (Check all that apply. f�nnal ilt w;th Nl3nFR pamitting ai ithodly in finterml what information neefin to hA submitted and when.) Vow Discharges into marine waters (CWA El Water quality related effluent limitation (CWA Section ❑ Section 301(h)) 302(b)(2)) ❑✓ Not applicable 1.24 Are any operational or maintenance aspects (related to wastewater treatment and effluent quality) of the treatment works the responsibility of a contractor? ❑ Yes ❑✓ No +SKIP to Section 2. 1.25 Provide location and contact information for each contractor in addition to a description of the contractor's operational and maintenance responsibilities. Contractor Information Contractor 1 Contractor 2 Contractor 3 g Contractor name $ (company name Mailing address street or P.O. box e City, state, and ZIP code Contact name (first and u last Phone number Email address Operational and maintenance responsibilities of contractor Page 4 NPOES Permit Number Facility Name Modified Application Form 2A NCO075205 Alexander Island WWTP Modified March 2021 SECTION 2. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (40 CIFR 122.210)(1) and (2)) c Outfalls to waters of the Slate of North Carolina 2.1 Does the treatment works have a design flow greater than or equal to 0.1 mgd? ❑ Yes ❑✓ No 4 SKIP to Section 3. 0 = 2.2 Provide the treatment works' current average daily volume of inflow Average Daily Volume of Inflow and Infiltration � and infiltration. gpd c Indicate the steps the facility is taking to minimize inflow and infiltration. v c m 3 0 c c r 2.3 Have you attached a topographic map to this application that contains all the required information? (See instructions for W specific requirements.) o � $ El Yes E] No 2A Have you attached a process flow diagram or schematic to this application that contains all the required information? n (See instructions for speck requirements.) c ❑ Yes ❑ No 2.5 Are improvements to the facility scheduled? ❑ Yes ❑ No 4 SKIP to Section 3. Briefly list and describe the scheduled improvements. = 0 1. c m E a 2. E 0 d 3. a m L U N Y. 2.6 Provide scheduled or actual dates of completion for improvements. Scheduled or Actual Dates of Com letion for Improvements E > Scheduled Affected Orrifalls Begin End Begin Attainment of Operational c Improvement (list outfall Construction Construction Disc harge Level E _ (from above) number (MMIDDIYYYY) (MMIDDIYYYY) (MMIDDIYYYY) MMIDD a 1. m L 2. y 3. 4. 2.7 Have appropriate permits/clearances concerning other federal/state requirements been obtained? Briefly explain your response. ❑ Yes ❑ No ❑ None required or applicable Explanation: Page 5 NPDES Permit Number raGuq name maauieu �WP��wuvn 1.,1„ Alexander Island WWiP Modified March 2021 NC0075205 SECTION 3. INFORMATION ON EFFLUENT DISCHARGES (40 CFR 122.210)(3) to (5)) Provide the following information for each outfall. (Attach additional sheets if you have more than three outfalls.) 3.1 Outfall Number 001 Outfall Number _ Outfall Number State NC •—r County Iredell m 0 `o City or town Mooresville Distance from shore 1056 h• K ft u Depth below surface zo ft. Average daily flow rate 0.004 mgd mgd mgd Latitude 35° 42' 21" N Longitude a0° 33' 54" w " 3.2 Do any of the outfalls described under Item 3.1 have seasonal or periodic discharges? c ❑ Yes ✓❑ No 4 SKIP to Item 3.4. A 3.3 If so, provide the following information for each applicable outfall. a Outfall Number _ Outfall Number _ Outfall Number 0 Number of times per year Bdischarge occurs d Average duration of each Average flow of each mgd mgd mgd $ discharge Months in which discharge occurs 3.4 Are any of the outfalls listed under Item 3.1 equipped with a diffuser? ❑ Yes ❑✓ No 4 SKIP to Item 3.6. 3.5 Briefly describe the diffuser a at each applicable outrall. d Outfall Number_ Outfall Number_ Outfall Number d 0 Does the treatment works discharge or plan to discharge wastewater to waters of the State of North Carolina from vi C =j 3.6 one or more discharge paints? m . 3 S Yes ❑ No +SKIP to Section 6. Page 6 NPDES Permit Number Facility Name Modified Application Form 2A NCO075205 Alexander Island WWTP Modified March 2021 3.7 Provide the receiving water and related information if known for each outfall. Outfall Number 001 Outfall Number _ Outfall Number Receiving water name Lake Norman Name of watershed, river, Lake Norman (Catawba River) o or stream system a U.S. Soil Conservation Service 14-digit watershed o code Name of stale 3 management/river basin Catawba 0 S U.S Geological Survey Ei 8-digit hydrologic cataloging unit code Critical low flow (acute) cis cfs cfs Critical low flow (chronic) cis cis cis Total hardness at critical mglL of mglL of mglL of low flow C8CO3 CaCO3 CaCO3 3.8 Provide the following information describing the treatment provided for discharges from each outfall. Outfall Number 001 Outfall Number Oulfall Number Highest Level of ❑ Primary ❑ Primary ❑ Primary Treatment (check all that ❑ Equivalent to ❑ Equivalent to ❑ Equivalent to apply per outfall) secondary secondary secondary O Secondary ❑ Secondary ❑ Secondary ❑ Advanced ❑ Advanced ❑ Advanced ❑ Other (specify) ❑ Other (specify) ❑ Other (specify) c aDesign Removal Rates by `u Outfall N a BODs or CBODs 85 % % % c d e m TSS 85 % % % 0 Not applicable ❑ Not applicable ❑ Not applicable Phosphorus % % % 0 Not applicable ❑ Not applicable ❑ Not applicable Nitrogen % % % Other (specify) 0 Not applicable ❑ Not applicable ❑ Not applicable % % % Page 7 NPDES Permit Number Facility Nam Modified Application Form 2A NCO075205 Alexander Island WWTP Modified March 2021 3.9 Describe the type of disinfection used for the effluent from each outfall in the table below. If disinfection varies by season, describe below. 0 c a c 0 e Outfall Number 001 Outfall Number Outtall Number o Disinfection type Tablet Chlorination w/contact tank Seasons used All Eo FDechlorination used? ❑ Not applicable ❑ Not applicable ❑ Not applicable ❑✓ Yes ❑ Yes ❑ Yes ❑ No ❑ No ❑ No 3.10 Have you completed monitoring for all Table A parameters and attached the results to the application package? r❑ Yes ❑ No 3.11 Have you conducted any WET tests during the 4.5 years prior to the date of the application on any of the facility's discharges or on any receiving water near the discharge points? ❑ Yes ❑✓ No 4 SKIP to Item 3.13. 3.12 Indicate the number of acute and chronic WET tests conducted since the last permit reissuance of the facility's discharges by outfa_II number or of the receiving water near the discharge points. OutfallNumber_ I OutfallNumber OutfallNumber_ Acute Chronic Acute Chronic Acute Chronic Number of tests of discharge c watpr FNumber of tests of receiving water m w 3.14 Does the POTW use chlorine for disinfection, use chlorine elsewhere in the treatment process, or otherwise have reasonable potential to discharge chlorine in its effluent? ❑✓ Yes 4 Complete Table B, including chlorine. ❑ No 4 Complete Table B, omitting chlorine. 3.15 Have you completed monitoring for all applicable Table B pollutants and attached the results to this application package? 0 Yes ❑ No Have you completed monitoring for all applicable Table D pollutants required by your NPDES permitting authority and 3.18 attached the results to this application package? 0 No additional sampling required by NPDES ❑ Yes ermittin authori . Page 8 NPDES Permit Number Facility Name Modified Application Form 2A NCO075205 Alexander Island W WTP Modified March 2021 3.19 Has the POTW conducted either (1) minimum of four quarterly WET tests for one year preceding this permit application or (2) at least four annual WET tests in the past 4.5 years? ❑ Yes 0 No + Complete tests and Table E and SKIP to Item 3.26. 3.20 Have you previously submitted the results of the above tests to your NPDES permitting authority? 4 Provide results in Table E and SKIP to ❑ Yes El Item 3.26. 3.21 Indicate the dates the data were submitted to our NPDES permitting authority and provide a summary of the results. Date(s) Submitted Summary of Results MMIDD v m S c c 0 � 3.22 Regardless of how you provided our WET testing data to the NPDES permitting authority, did an of the tests result in 9 Y P Y 9 P 9 b. Y o toxicity? c ❑ Yes ❑ No 4 SKIP to Item 3.26. 3.23 Describe the cause(s) of the toxicity: e w 3.24 Has the treatment works conducted a toxicity reduction evaluation? ❑ Yes ❑ No 4 SKIP to Item 3.26. 3.25 Provide details of any toxicity reduction evaluations conducted. 3.26 Have you completed Table E for all applicable outfalls and attached the results to the application package? ❑ Yes Not applicable because previously submitted information to the NPDES permitting authority. Page 9 NPDES Permit Number Faality Name moameo HPP'" mminiu Alexander Island W WiP Modified March 2021 NCO075205 SECTION• r In Column 1 below, mark the sections of Form 2A that you have completed and are submitting with your application. For 6.1 each section, specify in Column 2 any attachments that you are enclosing to alert the permitting authority. Note that not all applicants are required to provide attachments. Column 7 Column 2 ❑ Section 1: Basic Application ❑ w/ variance request(s) ❑ wl additional attachments Information for All Applicants Section 2: Additional 0 wl topographic map 0 wl process flow diagram ❑ Information ❑ wl additional attachments ❑� wl Table A ❑ w/ Table D a Section 3: Information on ❑ wl Table B ❑ wl additional attachments Effluent Discharges c ❑ w/Table C d Section 4: Not Applicable 0 Section 5: Not Applicable c d O Section 6: Checklist and ❑ w/ attachments Certification Statement Y 6.2 Certification Statement u I certify underpenalty of law that this document and all attachments were prepared under my direction or supervision in accordance with a system designed to assure that qualified personnel properly gather and evaluate the information submitted. Based on my inquiry of the person or persons who manage the system, or those persons directly responsible for gathering the information, the information submitted is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true, accurate, and complete. I am aware that there are significant penalties for submitting false information, including the possibility of fine Name (pent or type first and last name) Official titre Brent Milliron Envir. Compliance Director Signature Date signed n �/yyJ io/oi/zoza Page 10 NPDES Permit Number Facility Name Outrell Number Modified Application Form 2A NCO075205 Alexander Island WWiP 001 1 Modified March 2021 Pollutant eN aiigel�� Maximum Daily Discharge Average Daily Discharge Analytical ML or MDL Number of Method' Include units Value Unb Samples ( ) Value Units Biochemical oxygen demand0 o BODs or ❑ CBODs (report one 28.7 mg/L 1.41 mg/L 221 SM5210B MIL 2.0 O MDL Fecal coliform 370 mg/L 27.91 mg/L 209 SM9222D (MF) 1.0 O MDL Design flow rate 38,000 gallons 4434 gallons 1491 pH (minimum) 6.0 units degrees Celsius 97 pH (maximum) 8.5 units Temperature (winter) 20 degrees Celsius 13.66 Temperature (summer) 28 degrees Celsius 22.55 degrees Celsius 136 Total suspended solids (TSS) 20.7 mg/L 2.6 mg/L 221 SM2540D 2.5 0 MDL 'Sampling shall be conducted according to sufficiently sensitive test procedures (i.e., methods) approved under au CFR 136 for me aoaryss ur Inmumran Or Punorai it Paiamum.a a. required under 40 CFR chapter I, subchapter Nor 0. See instructions and 40 CFR 122.21(e)(3). Z T 0 CZ) o M Page 11 DES Permit Number NCO075205 I Alexander Island WWTP 001 Modified Application Form 2A Modified March 2021 Maximum Daily Discharge Average Daily Discharge Analytical ML or MDL Value Units Va a Units Number of Pollutant Method' (include units ) Samples 11 MIL Ammonia (as N) 4.15 mall. 0. 7 mall. 217 SM4500NH3D 0.2 OO MDL Chlorine 47 ug/L 2. ug/L 436 Field -Hach DPD 11 MIL ❑ MDL total residual, TRC 2 Dissolved Oxygen 10.3 mg/L 7. 5 mg/L 218 Field -Hach DPD 0 MIL ❑ MDL Nitrate/nitrite SM450ONO3E ❑ ML ❑ MDL O Ml. Kjeldahl nitrogen SM450DORGB,NH3C ❑MDL ❑ ML Oil and grease ❑ MDL Phosphorus SM450OPE MI ❑MDL ❑ ML Total dissolved solids ❑ MDL ' Sampling shall be conducted according to sufficiently sensitive test procedures (i.e., mail required under 40 CFR chapter I, subchapter N or 0. See instructions and 40 CFR 122.21 2 Facilities that do not use chlorine for disinfection, do not use chlorine elsewhere in the tre required to report data for chlorine. approved under 4u U-K iju Tor me analysis or poluttants or ponutani parameters or process, and have no reasonable potential to discharge chlorine in their effluent are not EPA Form 3510-2A (Revised 3-19) 1 Page 12 N , , E , , �8 yE i ` Lin Eder r Iredell ' ounty, State of North Carolina DOT, Esri, HERE, Garmin, INCREMENT P, USGS, EPA, USDA Printed: Oct 07, 2024 A O U A �' is 0 0.05 0.1 0.2 mi 1 t inch nni ialc 797 ft core eo=cmcc—orng p e w or Ere�re.ece a.w,m,.m. a.ie, w w.mnc enc�M•ece o�• m. more e.unee mwm.eoo. AwortcmeNme wr -Glsm Hb- .e�•ai•®aowawcew.wm Raw Effluent Aeration & Tertiary Sand Clarification Filters Sludge Holding Tank Pumped and Hauled Alexander Island WWTP t NCO075205 i;Pr4cess Flow Diagram Chlorine Contact Dechlorination Aeration Outfa 11001