WQ0004075_Correction_20061025

�aF W%qQ Michael F. Easley, Governor
�0 William G. Ross Jr., Secretary
jNorth Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
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0 -� Alan W. Klimek, P.E. Director
Division of Water Quality
October 25, 2006
DANNY L. BAKER - PRESIDENT
PENDER PACKING COMPANY, INC.
4520 NC HIGHWAY 133
ROCKY POINT, NORTH CAROLINA 28457
Dear Mr. Baker:
Subject: Permit No. WQ0004075
Permit Correction
Pender Packing WWTF
Surface Irrigation
Pender County
In accordance with a telephone request from your staff to Ms. Tara MacPherson Croft of the Division of
Water Quality's Wilmington Regional Office that was subsequently forwarded to the Division's Central
Office on October 25, 2006, we are forwarding herewith a corrected Page 4 of Permit No. WQ0004075,
which was issued on September 23, 2002, for the subject surface irrigation facilities.
The following corrections have been made to the permit:
✓ Condition 11I(5) was amended to include the quarterly sampling months for the upstream and
downstream surface water quality monitoring stations. The quarterly sampling shall be
conducted in January, April, July and October.
Please replace Page 4 with the corrected Page 4 into Permit No. WQ0004075, issued September 23,
2002.
If you have any questions regarding this request, please do not hesitate to contact Nathaniel Thornburg at
[phone]. Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincere /
Alan W. Klimek, P.E.
cc: Pender County Health Department
Tara MacPherson Croft — WiImington Regional Office, Aquifer Protection Section
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5. Quarterly monitoring (i.e., January, April, July and October) shall be conducted at two locations,
delineated as "PPUS" for the upstream monitoring location and "PPDS for the downstream monitoring
location. The collected samples shall be obtained from the point where the perimeter ditch intersects the
existing adjacent drainage for the downstream location. The Permittee shall sample the effluent for the
following parameters:
Sodium Chloride Ammonia
Fecal Coliform BOD5 Dissolved Oxygen
TDS
6. Three (3) copies of all operation and disposal records [as specified in Condition HI(3)] on Form
NDAR-1 and three (3) copies of all effluent monitoring data [as specified in Conditions III(4) and
III(5)] on Form NDMR-1 shall be submitted on or before the last day of the following month (i.e. May,
September, and November). All information, shall be submitted to the following address:
Division of Water Quality
Information Processing Unit
1617 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1617
7. The Permittee shall develop and submit an annual field management plan to the Wilmington Regional
Office by January 31 of the following year. The plan shall include the following items:
a. Crop(s) to be grown,
b. Seeding and/or planting schedule,
c. Agronomic application rates,
d. Harvest methods and schedule,
e. Description of use/disposal of harvested crop,
f. How sodium management issues and concerns are addressed,
g. Annual soils analysis of the disposal area [see Condition 111(9)], and
h. How the ORC determines and corrects crop stress factors within the disposal area.
8. A representative annual soils analysis (Standard Soil Fertility Analysis). shall be conducted on each
spray field area between the months of April 15`h to September 15t'. After the initial sampling date is
set, future annual sampling shall occur on or near the date of the initial sampling (=L 7 days max.) and
the results maintained on file by the Permittee for a minimum of five years. The Standard Soil Fertility
Analysis shall include, but is not necessarily limited to, the following parameters:
Acidity Manganese Potassium
Calcium Percent Humic Matter Sodium
Copper pH Zinc
Magnesium Exchangeable Sodium Percentage Phosphorus
Cation Exchange Capacity Base Saturation (by calculation)
9. Noncompliance Notification:
The Permittee shall report by telephone to the Wilmington Regional Office, telephone number
[phone], as soon as possible, but in no case more than 24 hours or on the next working
day following the occurrence or first knowledge of the occurrence of any of the following:
a. Any occurrence at the wastewater treatment facility which results in the treatment of
significant amounts of wastes which are abnormal in quantity or characteristic, such as the
dumping of the contents of a sludge digester; the known passage of a slug of hazardous
substance through the facility; or any other unusual circumstances.
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