Town of Huntersville issued the following announcement on Oct. 17.
NC DEQ Seeking Public Comment on Notice of Intent to Issue a NPDES Wastewater Permit to Colonial Pipeline Company Through October 24, 2022
Last month, NC DEQ opened a public comment period related to a request by Colonial for a new permit NC0090000 to assist with the cleanup and recovery of the August 2021 gasoline leak at the Oehler Nature Preserve.
Send Public Comments related to this permit application via email to: publiccomments@ncdenr.gov (general email used by NCDEQ for public comments).
Comments must be received by Oct 24, 2022, 11:59pm.
You can also send comments by mail to:
NCDEQ/DWR/NPDES
Water Quality Permitting Section
1617 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1617
The full Notice of Intent to Issue a NPDES Wastewater Permit NC0090000 Colonial Pipeline Company is available at: https://deq.nc.gov/news/events/notice-intent-issue-npdes-wastewater-permit-nc0090000-colonial-pipeline-company.
If granted, Colonial Pipeline will create a water treatment plant near the spill area on Huntersville-Concord Road to treat and discharge the water into the North Prong Clark Creek and South Prong Clark Creek to keep the water within the Yadkin-Pee Dee River Basin in accordance with state and federal standards, including specific limits and monitoring requirements as outlined in the permit.
As representatives from Colonial Pipeline and NCDEQ recently shared with the Town during an update at the September 19th Board of Commissioners Meeting, this will allow Colonial Pipeline to install deeper hydraulic wells to investigate vertical delineation to accelerate product recovery and environmental remediation. The permit will allow the resulting water from that process to be treated on site and discharged back into the environment, under NC DEQ oversight, so the water can be kept within the basin versus being trucked off site for disposal.
The full NPDES Permit Application is available online at the NC DEQ website at: https://edocs.deq.nc.gov/WaterResources/DocView.aspx?id=2499745&dbid=0&repo=WaterResources.
Original source can be found here.
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