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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNC0086690_Renewal (Application)_20171106Water Resources ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY November 06, 2017 Mr. Shannon V. Becker, President Aqua North Carolina Inc 202 Mackenan Ct Cary, NC 27511 Subject: Permit Renewal Application No. NCO086690 Stansted Well #2 (WTP) Wake County Dear Applicant: ROY COOPER covernw MICHAEL S. REGAN secrrtory S. JAY ZIMMERMAN afrom The Water Quality Permitting Section acknowledges the October 31, 2017 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://deq.nc.aov/permits-regulations/permit-guidance/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. Sincerely, Wren The ord Administrative Assistant Water Quality Permitting Section cc: Central Files w/application(RRO) ec: WQPS Laserfiche File w/application State of North Carolina J Environmental Quality I Water Resources 1617 Mail Service Center I Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1617 919-807-6300 AOUX October 25, 2017 Nathaniel Thornburg NCDENR/DWQ/NPDES 1617 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 27699-0167 Re: Stansted WTP Permit Renewal Application Permit #: NCO086690 Wake County RECEIVED/NCDEWWR OCT 3 12017 Water Quality Permitting Section Enclosed you'll find our application for renewal of our NPDES Permit and required documentation. Should you need any additional information or assistance please feel free to contact Deb Watkins (610) 645-4216 DMWatkins@aquaamerica.com Sincerely, Shannon Becker President Aqua North Carolina, Inc. NPDES PERMIT APPLICATION - SHORT FORM C - WTP For discharges associated with water treatment plants Mail the complete application to: N. C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources Division of Water Quality / NPDES Unit 1617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1617 NPDES Permit Number INCO086690 If you are completing this form in computer use the TAB key or the up - down arrows to move from one field to the next. To check the boxes, click your mouse on top of the box. Otherwise, please print or type. 1. Contact Information: Owner Name AQUA NORTH CAROLINA, INC. Facility Name STANSTED WELL #2 Mailing Address 202 MACKENAN COURT RECEIVED/NMEO/DWR City CARY OCT 31317 State / Zip Code NORTH CAROLINA 27511 Water Qualit Telephone Number (919)653-5770 ermi mg Section Fax Number (919)460-1788 e-mail Address SVBecker@aquaamerica.com 2. Location of facility producing discharge: Check here if same as above ❑ Street Address or State Road STANSTED DRIVE City FUQUAY VARINA State / Zip Code County NORTH CAROLINA WAKE 3. Operator Information: Name of the firm, consultant or other entity that operates the facility. (Note that this is not referring to the Operator in Responsible Charge or ORC) Name AQUA NORTH CAROLINA, INC. Mailing Address 202 MACKENAN COURT City CARY State / Zip Code NORTH CAROLINA 27511 Telephone Number (919)653-5770 Fax Number (919)460-1788 4. Ownership Status: Federal ❑ State ❑ 5. 'lope of treatment plant: Private Public ❑ Page 1 of 3 C-WTP 03/05 91 NPDES PERMIT APPLICATION - SHORT FORM C - WTP For discharges associated with water treatment plants ❑ Conventional (Includes coagulation, flocculation, and sedimentation, usually followed by filtration and disinfection) ❑ Ion Exchange (Sodium Cycle Cationic ion exchange) ® Green Sand Filter (No sodium recharge) ❑ Membrane Technology (RO, nanofiltration) Check here if the treatment process also uses a water softener ❑ Description of source water(s) (i.e. groundwater, surface water) Groundwater 7. Describe the treatment process(es) for the raw water: Chlorination Caustic for pH control Three (3) greensand filter units Phosphate Bennefloc S. Describe the wastewater and the treatment process(es) for wastewater generated by the facility: Three (3) greensand filter units Calcium thiosulfate (Dechlorination) 2" outfall pipe 9. Number of separate discharge points: 1 Outfall Identification number(s) 001 10. Frequency of discharge: Continuous ❑ If intermittent: Days per week discharge occurs: 7 Days Intermittent Duration: 21 minutes 11. Plant design potable flowrate .065 MGD Backwash or reject flow .0049 MGD 12. Name of receiving stream(s) (Provide a map showing the exact location of each outfall, including latitude and longitude): Unnamed tributary to Basal Creek in the Neuse River Basin 13. Please list all water treatment additives, including cleaning chemicals or disinfection treatments, that have the potential to be discharged. Page 2 of 3 C-WTP 03/05 NPDES PERMIT APPLICATION - SHORT FORM C - WTP For discharges associated with water treatment plants Chlorine Caustic Soda Phosphate Calcium Thiosulfate Bennefloc 14. Is this facility located on Indian country? (check one) Yes ❑ No 15. Additional Information: v Provide a schematic of flow through the facility, include flow volumes at all points in the treatment process, and point of addition of chemicals. Solids Handling Plan 16. NEW Applicants Information needed in addition to items 1-15: New applicants must contact a permit coordinator with the NCDENR Customer Service Center. Was the Customer Service Center contacted? ❑ Yes ❑ No Analyses of source water collected Engineering Alternative Analysis Discharges from Ion Exchange and Reverse Osmosis plants shall be evaluated using a water quality model. 17. Applicant Certification I certify that I am familiar with the information contained in the application and that to the best of my knowledge and belief such information is true, complete, and accurate. Shannon V Becker President & COO Printed name of Person Signing Title Signature of Applicant Date North Carolina General Statute 143-215.6 (b)(2) provides that: Any person who knowingly makes any false statement representation, or certification in any application, record, report, plan, or other document files or required to be maintained under Article 21 or regulations of the Environmental Management Commission implementing that Article, or who falsifies, tampers with, or knowingly renders inaccurate any recording or monitoring device or method required to be operated or maintained under Article 21 or regulations of the Environmental Management Commission implementing that Article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $25,000, or by imprisonment not to exceed six months, or by both. (18 U.S.C. Section 1001 provides a punishment by a fine of not more than $25,000 or imprisonment not more than 5 years, or both, for a similar offense.) Page 3 of 3 C-WTP 03/05 A a NCDENR North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources Division of Water Quality Pat McCrory Charles Wakild, P.E. Governor Director May 17, 2013 Mr. Thomas J. Roberts, President Aqua North Carolina, Inc. 202 MacKenan Court Cary, NC 27511 John E. Skvarla, III Secretary R�cF��F *4? 1 Subject: Issuance of NPDES Permit NCO086690 Aqua North Carolina, Inc. — Stansted Well #2 WTP Wake County Dear Mr. Roberts: 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 October 15, 2007 (or as subsequently amended). This final permit includes one significant change to its terms from those found in the draft permit sent to you on Match 27, 2013. This change is: • Reporting of Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen and Nitrites + Nitrates concentrations have been removed from the permit. 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. 1617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1617 One Location: 512 N. Salisbury St Raleigh, North Carolina 27604 NofthCarohria Phone: 919-607-63001 FAX: 919-807-6492 Internet www.ncwaterquality.orgatura!!� An Equal Opportunity 1 Affirmative Action Employer Mr. Thomas J. Roberts NC0086690 Permit Renewal 2013 p• 2 If you have any questions concerning this permit, please contact Bob Sledge at telephone number (919) 807-6398, or via e-mail at bob. sledge&cdenr.gov.. Sin arles Wakild, P.E. cc: Central Files Raleigh Regional Office/Surface Water Protection Section NPDES File Permit NCO086690 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 provisions 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, Aqua North Carolina, Inc. is hereby authorized to discharge wastewater from a facility located at the Stansted Subdivision Well #2 Off Stansted Drive North of Fuquay-Varina Wake County to receiving waters designated as an unnamed tributary to Basal Creek in the Neuse 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 July. 1, 2013. This permit and authorization to discharge shall expire at midnight on April 30, 2018. Signed this day May 17, 2013. L44t /-Z V-"107� MChar Wakild, P.E., Director Di ision of Water Quality By Authority of the Environmental Management Commission Permit NC0086690 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. Aqua North Carolina, Inc. is hereby authorized to: 1. Continue to discharge wastewater from a Greensand filter water treatment plant, with additional -- - wastewater -treatment provided -by --a tablet dechlorinator and a final sand bed filter prior -to. - discharge. This facility is located at the Stansted Subdivision Well #2, off of Stansted Drive, north of Fuquay- Varina, in Wake County. 2. Discharge at the location specified on the attached map into an unnamed tributary to Basal Creek, classified B, NSW waters in the Neuse River Basin. Permit NCO086690 75 i.l lam•— : " 111 (�J } `.; r ` 7�' 11 7.9 ' - (`J 1 • 7 OA -�����! � _ \moi\� rgePbi'rt •'tDis6 325 t ,��' �� � � �� --�__ � ' • '", / `_-� r 1 �—�� NP \` / /: ii• a ' ai .1397 } 73Q3 130 11IIG to f (y\ u F L. 1 r 13495 1 ` J�'\ /� Aqua North Carolina, Inc. Stansted Subdivision Well #2 WTP USGS Quad: Apex, NC Stream Class: B, NSW Latitude: 350 38' 31" N Subbasin: 030403 Longitude: 780 47'20" W Receiving Stream: UT to Basal Creeki Facility Location r� NPDES Permit NC0086690 North I Wake Count Permit NCO086690 A. (1) EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS AND MONITORING REQUIREMENTS — FINAL During the period beginning on the effective date of the 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 for each outfall: EFFLUENT CHARACTERISTICS LIMITSI MONITORING REQUIREMENTS", Parameter Code Monthly.,Daily Average Maximum Measurement Fre uency Sample T � e Sample,,.: Location Flow 50050 2/Month Estimatel Effluent Total Suspended Solids (TSS) C0310 30.0 mg/L 45.0 mg/L 2/Month Grab Effluent pH 00400 ----- - ---- > 6 0 and < 9.0 standard — — units 2/Month Grab Effluent Total Residual Chlorine2 50060 17 Ng/L 2/Month Grab Effluent Turbidity -- - 00070 Monitor & Report - 2/Month Grab -- _ Effluent Total Iron 01045 Monitor & Report Quarterly Grab Effluent Total Manganese 01055 Monitor & Report Quarterly Grab Effluent Total Nitrogen (TN)3 C0600 Monitor & Report (mg/L) Semi-annually Calculated Effluent Total Phosphorus (TP) C0665 I Monitor & Report (mg/L) Semi-annually Grab Effluent Footnotes: 1. Daily flow estimates are determined by the number and duration of backwash/rinse events. 2. The Division shall consider all effluent TRC values reported below 50 gg/L to be in compliance with the permit. However, the Permittee shall continue to record and submit all values reported by a North Carolina certified laboratory (including field certified), even if these values fall below 50 gg/L. 3. For a given wastewater sample, TN = (NO2-N + NO3-N) + TKN, where TN is Total Nitrogen, (NO2-N + NO3-N) is Nitrite/Nitrate Nitrogen, and TKN is Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen. 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. S-rg �s+ecQ k)e 11 4 e pOYJ Gyr). �_CA� :uMT�`9f Kate S'iJ y,ru lea _ �a'Fe Twp �IC�yt1�TI��OSK Qenne�lo� Qa-Tore. ���-F¢.c� P; kers �enne� for �. se-Ifl;,n TanK a 2 AouA North Carolina. Aqua North Carolina, Inc. T: 919.4,67.8712 202 Mackenan Ct. F: s1s.46s.158s -Cary, NC 27511 www.aquanorthcarolina.com SLUDGE MANAGEMENT PLAN For Aqua North Carolina, Inc. No sludge will be treated on any wastewater treatment plant site operated by Aqua N.C., Central'Division. Where practical, sludge removed from a Aqua N.C., Central Division facility will be transported via a contract hauler to another. Aqua N.C., Central Division facility for the purpose of "seeding" a new or under loaded plant. Unusable (or "dead") sludge will be removed by a contract hauler and properly disposed of in accordance with NCGS 143-215.1. Contract haulers used by Aqua N.C., Central Division will be required to report the quantity of sludge transported and identify the location of the proposed disposal site if the sludge is not taken to an existing plant operated by Aqua N.C., Central Division. Aqua N.C., Central Division has not entered into any agreement to accept sludge into its facilities from plants -not owned by them. Aqua N.C., Central Division will keep records on the quantity of sludge removed from each facility, the name of the contract hauler, and the . destination of the sludge (whether used in another plant or disposed of). The information will be kept on file and will be made available to any regulatory agency having jurisdiction over sludge treatment or disposal. Aqua N.C., Central Division includes facilities under the jurisdiction of the Raleigh, Wilmington and Fayetteville Regional Offices.