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Environmental Quality
January 8, 2019
Holt Farley
7313 Kepley Rd.
Chapel Hill NC 27517-6092
Subject: Compliance Evaluation Inspection
7313 Kepley Road SFR
Permit No. NCG551598
Durham County
Dear Mr. Farley:
On December 12, 2018, Joan Schneier and Brion Byers,both from the Raleigh Regional Office,
and Ranveer Katyal from the Non- Discharge Permitting Branch visited your single-family
residence (SFR) wastewater treatment system to evaluate compliance with the above permit to
discharge wastewater. We would like to thank you for assisting during the inspection. The
checked boxes below show what conditions were noted at your facility:
❑ In compliance: You are reminded to regularly maintain the chlorine disinfection
system, have the effluent sampled once a year, and have the septic tank pumped out every
3 to 5 years. Your good record of operation and meeting the permit requirements is
highly commended.
❑ Your home is improperly plumbed: Some of the wastewater discharges are going
directly to the environment without first passing through the treatment system. This must
be corrected immediately. Please submit a schedule to this office within 20 days of
receipt of this letter that states your plan for correcting this deficiency. The work is to be
completed within the next 3 months.
n Disinfection: Your system is lacking disinfection, either chlorine tablets or a UV light
system. New rules put into place on August 1, 2007 require all SFR systems to have a
means of disinfection(and dechlorination when chlorine tablets are used to disinfect, if
the system was installed since that date).
n Treatment tablets missing or are wrong kind: You are responsible for always
having chlorine tablets in place. They must be the kind for wastewater treatment and not
for swimming pools.
n Dechlorination: Your system was installed after August 1, 2007, so must have a
means of dechlorination located downstream of the chlorinator and its contact chamber.
See Disinfection paragraph above. Please submit a schedule to this office within 20
calendar days of receipt of this letter stating your_plan for correcting this deficiency.
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality I Division of Water Resources I Raleigh Regional Office
3800 Barrett Drive 1 1628 Mail Service Center I Raleigh,North Carolina 27699-1628
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❑ Pumping the septic tank: The septic tank should be pumped out every 3 to 5 years.
A pumping company can check the status periodically and determine when pumping is
required.
El Failure to analyze the effluent: The effluent that is discharged from your system
must be analyzed once each year. See Part I(A) of your permit about his requirement.
Make arrangements for sampling to be carried out within the next 3 months, and submit
results to this office within 3 weeks after the sampling has been conducted.
n Locations of treatment units are unknown: Determine this and report to this office
within 30 days of receipt of this letter with a sketch or map.
NI Other: Due to the complexity of the Advantex system, continuing use of a
maintenance contractor is advisable.
If you have questions or comments about this,inspection or the requirements to take corrective
action,please contact Joan Schneier or me at 919-791-4200. Licensed plumbers should be used
to make plumbing changes within your home. Contractors for installing disinfection or other
equipment may be found in the Yellow Pages under Environmental Consultants.
Sincer 1 ,
Rick Bolich, L.G.,
Water Quality Regional Assistant Supervisor
Raleigh Regional Office
Attachments:
Inspection Report
List of Labs
Sampling Parameters
cc: (minus attachments)
RRO/SWP Files
NPDES Permitting Unit Files— Charles Weaver