NCG020399_26Jan2018 Memo to DEQ_20180126

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CIESZKO CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC.
P.O. Box 690 — [phone] — Fax [phone]
HAVELOCK, NORTH CAROLINA 28532-0690
26 January, 2018
Bethany Georgoulias, Environmental Engineer
1612 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1617
RE: NPDES Permit COI NCG080606, and COI # NCG020399
Subj : Renewals and Updates for Cieszko Construction Company, Inc.
Dear Ms. Georgoulias;
You have been very helpful with our company in the past, and I am hoping you can help
us with updating our permits again for some recent items we have overlooked regarding
our Stormwater Permit for our Sand Mine near Havelock(Whitehall Mine).
On 2 November, 2017, we received a letter from your office to print off our new
Certificate of Coverage from the website and submit outfall information no later than 30
November, 2017. This letter was dated 17 October, 2017.
This notice came to us at the time when my brother and company CFO, and his wife,
were each going through several heart surgeries and rehabs, and the family business was
shorthanded in the administrative department. The two company employees that were
doing the stormwater monitoring and testing about this time, had left our company and
still have not been replaced. We failed to visit the website and print out the new cover
page by the 30 November, 2017, deadline. Since about the second week in January, I
have been trying to review our various mining and stormwater files to bring us up to date.
When I tried to visit the website given in the letter, I was unable to connect to any
information and assume the portal has been taken down.
Our mine has been dormant since the end of September, 2014, and we have not
performed any groundwater discharges or mining activities since that time. The last
basin we were dewatering has the potential for a small section of sand that could be
mined, but we have no plans to do so at this time, although the mining permit is intact in
case we decide the economic benefits are in our favor.
This basin is closed, in that it has no outlets to surface waters of the State, and the
surrounding ground drains into the pond during rainfall events. Even during recent
hurricane events, this basin has never overflowed. We have not performed any analytical
monitoring since 2014 after reading the Monitoring Exemption on page 1 of Part IV of
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the General Permit #NCG020000. If we were required to apply or submit paperwork to
support this exemption in 2014, we failed to do so.
I tried to look at the map on the state website for our mine, in hopes to see if the outfall
we use when dewatering is located properly. I do not know the coordinates and was not
able to open the map when I clicked on the "pushpin" on the screen. It may be that I was
not using the website properly.
Any assistance we could get from your office to correct any deficiencies (if any) we are
currently having, or to bring our permits up to date, we would appreciate.
Sincerely;
Cieszko Construction Company, Inc.
Martin G. Cieszko, President
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