DEQ to Hold Public Hearing for Colonial Pipeline Wastewater Permit | TOWN OF HUNTERSVILLE: (huntersville.org)
DEQ to Hold Public Hearing for Colonial Pipeline Wastewater Permit | TOWN OF HUNTERSVILLE: (huntersville.org)
Town of Huntersville issued the following announcement on Feb. 19.
The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Water Resources (DWR) will hold a public hearing on March 16, 2023 for a Colonial Pipeline wastewater permit (#NC009000).
Colonial Pipeline has requested a National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Wastewater Discharge permit to allow the discharge of treated groundwater to North Prong Clark Creek in the Yadkin-Pee Dee River basin. The permit relates to fuel recovery and groundwater remediation efforts required by the Department’s Division of Waste Management following the August 2020 fuel release by Colonial Pipeline in the Oehler Nature Preserve in Mecklenburg County. Members of the public are invited to provide comment at the hearing or during the comment period.
WHEN March 16, 2023, 6:00 p.m.
WHERE: Central Piedmont Community College – Merancas Campus, 11920 Verhoeff Drive, Huntersville, NC 28078
Speaker registration opens at 5 p.m., onsite via a sign-up sheet.
Written comments will also be accepted by email at publiccomments@ncdenr.gov. Please include COLONIAL PIPELINE in the subject line. Written comments may also be mailed with a postmark through March 17, 2023, to:
Wren Thredford, Wastewater PermittingAttn: Colonial Pipeline PermitNC Division of Water Resources617 Mail Service CenterRaleigh, N.C., 27699-1617
Original source can be found here.
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