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From: "Amanda. [e-mail]" <Amanda. Mueller@ncmail. net>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:48:43 -0500 (EST)
To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
Response from Kristin in Al Hodge's group.
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From: [e-mail]
Date: Feb 26, 2009 10:13
To: <[e-mail]>
Cc: "Al Hodge"<[e-mail]>
Subj: PCS Questions
Amanda,
In response to your email concerning PCS:
1. Does SWP do any side by side sampling to verify monitoring
submitted
by PCS?
Years ago, monthly monitoring was conducted for a year at each PCS
outfall. Split samples were taken during sampling inspections.
Since 1999 monitoring by DWQ in the Pamlico River near the outfall
canal
occurs twice monthly in three different locations. Parameters
include DO, temperature, pH, salinity, conductivity, fecal coliform,
turbidity, chlorophyll a and nutrients. I am checking to see if there
have
been any issues.
2. Are any toxicity samples taken?
Yes. DWQ took Toxicity samples at PCS's effluent in 1997, 1998, 1999
and
2001. All samples were compliant. A Toxicity sampling event is
scheduled for this year.
3. Has any testing been done on the historic waste ponds?
The historic waste ponds are the clay ponds on the Charles Tract.
They
I are unlined but I have no knowledge of these being reported as a
source
I of toxins to adjacent water. Sampling was conducted by DWQ monthly
at
these ponds for a year. To my knowledge there were no issues. PCS
stopped discharging to the ponds in the mid 1980's. The 2005 NPDES
permit eliminated the monitoring requirements.
I will email you when I hear from the Response Team concerning the
River
samples.
Kristin
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