7/14/09 - CONSENT AGMT AND FINAL ORDER ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $5,000.
ON SEPT 25, 2008, EPA AND NCDENR PERFORMED A COMPLIANCE STORM WATER EVALUATION INSPECTION (CSWEI) THE THE DEVELOPMENT. DURING THE CSWEI, EPA INSPECTORS OBSERVED THE FOLLOWING:
A. RESPONDENT DID NOT OPERATE AND MAINTAIN CONTROLS AT OPTIMUM EFFICIENCY TO MINIMIZE OR PREVENT ANY DISHCARGE. SILT FENCING ON NW PERIMETER OF BASIN 1 WAS LEANING; SILT FENCING ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE UNNAMED TRIBUTARY (UT) OF LEDGE CREEK AT CULVERT #3 INLET WAS APPROX 3/4 FULL OF SEDIMENT; SILT FENCING ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF CULVER #3 INLET HAD BEEN BREACHED; FILT FENCING ON THE WESTERN SLOPE OF CULVERT #3 OUTLET WAS ABOUT TO BE OVERTOPPED WITH SEDIMENT; SILF FENCING ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF CULVERT #2 OUTLET WAS ABOUT TO BE OVERTOPPED WITH SEDIMENT; FILT FENCING ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF CULTERN #1 OUTLET HAD BEEN BREACHED; SILT FENCING WEST OF CULVERT #1 OUTLET AND EAST OF BMP B HAD BEEN BREACHED BY CONCRETE PIPE; SILT FENCING ALONG THE WESTERN SIDE OF BMP A WAS APPROX 3/4 FULL OF SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT HAD ACCUMULATED OUTSIDE THE LIMITS OF DISTURBANCE ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF BMP A AND AT THE BMP B OUTLET; SILT FENCING AT THE SW CORNER OF BASIN 3 HAD BEEN BREACHED; BASIN 1 AND BASIN 3 WALLS, BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE BASINS NEEDED STABILIZATION; BASIN 1 WAS APPROX 3/4 FULL OF SEDIMENT; BMP A AND BMP B SLOPES NEEDED STABILIZATION; BMP B OUTLET PROTECTOIN NEEDED MAINTENANCE; THE CHECK DAM IN THE EASTERN EWATER QUALITY SWAL