NCG551257_Compliance Evaluation Inspection_20190405

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Mr. Robert & Crystal Mann
2715 Brown Road
Hurdle Mills, NC 27541
Dear Mr. & Mrs. Mann:
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April 5, 2019
Subject: Compliance Evaluation Inspection
Single Family Wastewater Treatment System
Permit No. NCG551257
Orange County
On April 4, 2019, Jane Bernard from the Raleigh Regional Office visited your single-family
residence (SFR) wastewater treatment system to e%-aluate compliance with the above permit to
discharge wastewater. The checked bones below show what conditions were noted at your
facility:
❑ In compliance: You are reminded to regularly maintain the chlorine disinfection and
dechlorination systems, 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.
❑ 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). Since your system had no disinfection, the
installation is to include a chlorine tablet dispenser, a contact chamber capable of
providing a minimum 30 minute contact time, and another tablet dispenser that will hold
dechlorination tablets. Please submit a schedule to this office within 20 calendar days of
receii2t of this letter that states your plan for correcting this deficiency.
❑ Chlorine tablets in the chlorinator: You are reminded that it is required that
chlorine tablets be maintained in the chlorinator to ensure proper disinfection of the
discharged wastewater. Chlorine tablets provide effective disinfection and prevent"limit
harmful bacteria from discharging to the environment. The vroduct label for these
tablets must indicate the tablets are approved for vmstev*'ater use and not for
swimming pools. The inspector did not observe any chlorine tablets in the chlorinators.
Part 1, Permit Conditions (Operation & XMintenance), item 4 within General Permit
NCG550000 requires the permittee to maintain all system components,
including —disinfection units... at all times and in good operating order. Please ensure
the correct type of tablets are used and maintained in the chlorinator.
DUE I
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.Z .P,umping the septic tank: You are required to inspect the septic tank at least yearly
to detenine if solids must be removed or if other maintenance is necessary. Septic tanks
shoull e,gumped out every five years or when the solids level is found to be more than
----�""""-17�3of the liquid depth in the septic tank compartment. A pumping company can check
the status periodically and determine when pumping is required. Within 45-days of
receiving this letter, please let this office know the date the septic tank was last pumped
out.
L] Failure to analyze the effluent: Part 1. A., E/fluent Limitations and Monitorinz-
a.
Requiretnents, within General Permit NCG550000 requires a permittee to sample and
analyze the effluent leaving his.:her treatment system prior to discharge annually.
Parameters to be sampled and analyzed include Flow, BOD (Biochemical Oxygen
Demand), TSS (Total Suspended Solids) Fecal Coliform and Total Residual Chlorine.
Please let this office know if you have monitored your effluent discharge within the last
12 months, and provide this office with a copy of the lab results if you have. If you have
not monitored your effluent within the last year, then please collect a sample of the
effluent, have it analyzed by a certified commercial laboratory and submit the results to
This office no later than August 5. 2019.
Annual Administering and Compliance Monitoring Fee Re( uirements: "Ihe Perrnittee
1t111.st pctV the annual adnlinrs'tLrulg.fe' (11141 col)lplicnlce 11+0t1it0rirlgfee tit'itlrilr tllirn days (after being
hilled l)v the Division. Failure to payy m
- thefee in a timely in accol•1011ce i►it11 15.1 NC�-IC
02H. 01 05(b)(4) may cause this Dii-ision to initiate action to reroh-C the pernlit." The Annual Fees
for 2017 and 2018 are past due. Please refer to the attached invoices and remit payment for these
fees to the address shown on the invoices immediately.
if you have questions or continents about this inspection or the requirenients to take corrective
action, please cotrtact Jane Bernard or tyre at 919-791-4200. Licetised plutttbers shotrlcl be used
to tttake plumbing changes within your home. Contractors for installing disinfection or other
equipment may be found in the Yellow Pages under Environmental Consultants.
Sincerely,
eBolich, L.G., Assistant Regional Supervisor
Raleigh Regional Office, Water Quality Regional
Operations Section, Division of Water Resources
Attachments: Inspection Reports
2017, 2018 Annual Permit Invoice
cc: RRO`SWP Files
Charles Weaver, NPDES Permitting Unit w o attachments