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Charles Town Sewer
Treatment Plant
Review of Expansion by Department of
Environmental Protection (DEP)
Comments by Latterell
Comments by 8 people
Comments by 8 other people
Comments by Burke
First Comment period (postmarked or emailed by 11/8/04) & address to send comments
Hearing 1/10/05 & Second Comment period through 1/20/05, & addresses for comments & inquiries
Cover letter listing changed pages in the water pollution permit
A - Pollution permitted & required reports
C - Conditions
Review of Expansion by State Public
Service Commission (PSC):
Hearing 8/24/04
PSC staff report 9/3/04
Opening briefs:
Burke brief 9/10/04
Charles Town
brief 9/9/04
County PSD brief 9/10/04
Ranson brief 9/10/04
Reply Briefs:
Burke brief 9/17/04
Staff brief 9/17/04
Charles Town brief 9/16/04
County PSD brief 9/17/04
Approval recommended by Administrative Law Judge 9/30/04
Review of fee increases by Public Service
Commission (PSC):
Hearing 3/8/05
Brief by Coakley
Pollution from Charles Town Sewer Treatment Plant
Warning letter from Potomac
Riverkeeper: pollution violations
Beginning of state lawsuit on pollution
violations, 3/9/04. This state action prevented Riverkeeper from pursuing its
case
First reply by Charles Town, 4/13/04: Says state can't enforce now, since it
didn't enforce in the past
Court order:
Fine for
past Charles Town violations & daily penalties for future violations
Correspondence
& Studies on Expanding Sewer Treatment
Abbreviations are at bottom.
The following files are mostly on a Yahoo site which requires that you sign in. Summaries are quick & impressionistic. Improvements to these summaries, & more documents are welcome.
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Date |
Author |
Addressee |
Subject |
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1 |
DEP |
Hall -County |
Before expanding Charles Town sewage plant above 1.2mgd, must pipe treated sewage to Shenandoah River |
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1 |
2/10/04 |
Johnson -DEP |
Arnett -Charles Town |
Charles Town sewage plant is limited to 1.2 mgd and has only 150,000 gallons per day remaining capacity. |
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72 |
2/13/04 |
Yearley -View |
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Sewer plant design manual update. Purpose is to show plant can treat 1.2mgd at up to 500 mg/L BOD. (Average is 534, with 5 of 60 samples > 900. Average excluding those is 486.). Were taking samples at bottom of influent channel; will start taking them 3-4" up. Average flow in 2003 was 1.15mgd. Plant designed by Sanitaire Corp. In storms it can process a batch of sewage every 2 hours, totalling 3mgd. Limit is capacity of blowers to force air through the 3 treatment basins. |
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3 |
1/28/04 |
Choate -View |
Johnson -DEP Wolford -BPH |
Schedule for 4th treatment basin (but could also increase blowers in first 3 basins). Will allocate capacity among Charles Town, Ranson, County after 6 months of flow data. Will track sewer requests & building permits to keep flow projections up to date. Design of 4th basin will take 6 months. Funding & construction starts with rate increase & will take 18 months |
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3 |
1/13/04 |
Johnson -DEP Wolford -BPH |
Kazmierczak -View |
State is concerned about treatment capacity & seeks revised schedule. Asks for copy of legal opinion. |
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4 |
12/22/03 |
Arnett -Charles Town |
Kazmierczak -View |
Reply to 12/3/03 letter. Please ignore BOD coming into plant. Just look at effluent. But ignore recent effluent pollution, because a bacteria caused it. Feeling frustrated. |
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4 |
9/30/03 |
Brannon -DEP |
Raco -County |
draft of letter saying treatment capacity is unknown. Weekend flows higher in June. Permit violations 7/03 & 8/03. but still claim "consistently meeting permit limits" in 6/03-8/03. |
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1 |
6/10/03 |
Brodersen -DEP |
Arnett -Charles Town |
Charles Town is not asking for money from State Revolving Loan Fund |
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1 |
4/3/03 |
Huffman -DEP |
Furr -Charles Town |
Environmental award for clean operation |
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6 |
8/29/02 |
Charles Town |
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Fact sheet for design of pipe to Shenandoah River, $2,316,000 |
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4 |
8/29/03 |
Turner -DEP |
Burke |
Disagree with comments on monitoring sewer plant |
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1 |
12/18/03 |
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Schedule for pipe to Shenandoah River |
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1 |
10/31/03 |
Herold -BPH |
Ivey -BPH |
List of subdivisions: 1159 lots approved in past 5 years |
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1 |
12/19/03 |
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New subdivisions' flows & stage of construction |
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9 |
10/31/02 |
Pentree |
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Analysis of Breckenridge Pump Station: it has too many houses to provide the standard 3.5 safety factor for sudden flows. Also odor problem |
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5 |
12/22/03 |
Kazmierczak -View |
Johnson -DEP Wolford -BPH |
Reply to 12/3/03 letter. Houses will reduce concentration of pollutants. Will add chemicals to minimize odors. Schedule. |
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9 |
12/18/03 |
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2003-2023 projections of sewage flow. List of subdivisions & start dates. |
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4 |
12/3/03 |
Johnson -DEP Wolford -BPH |
Kazmierczak -View |
Sewage plant virtually full. Pollution violations. Cannot approve more subdivisions. |
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5 |
11/7/03 |
Arnett -Charles Town |
County PSD |
Proposed sewage plant on Flowing Springs/Cattail/Shenandoah too expensive. Should expand Charles Town plant. |
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2004 kbyte pdf file (rest of file, after first two pages, is same as 2540kbyte file, except omits last 4-page letter which is in that file) |
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2 |
3/03 |
View |
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2003-2009 projections of sewage flow for each subdivision |
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3 |
1/28/04 same as in 2540 kbyte file |
Choate -View |
Johnson -DEP Wolford -BPH |
Schedule for 4th treatment basin (but could also increase blowers in first 3 basins). Will allocate capacity among Charles Town, Ranson, County after 6 months of flow data. Will track sewer requests & building permits to keep flow projections up to date. Design of 4th basin will take 6 months. Funding & construction starts with rate increase & will take 18 months |
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3 |
1/13/04 same as in 2540 kbyte file |
Johnson -DEP Wolford -BPH |
Kazmierczak -View |
State is concerned about treatment capacity & seeks revised schedule. Asks for copy of legal opinion. |
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2 |
1/2/04 |
Raco -County |
Wilford -BPH |
Asks why state more concerned about capacity 12/03 than Aug-Oct '03 |
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4 |
12/3/03 |
Johnson -DEP Wolford -BPH |
Kazmierczak -View |
Sewage plant virtually full. Pollution violations. Cannot approve more subdivisions. |
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4 |
12/3/03 |
Johnson -DEP Wolford -BPH |
Kazmierczak -View |
copy of same letter, emailed by Kevin Lilly -DEP to Raco -County. Sewage plant virtually full. Pollution violations. Cannot approve more subdivisions. |
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3 |
10/1/03 same as in 2540 kbyte file |
Brannon -DEP |
Raco -County |
final copy of letter saying treatment capacity is unknown. Weekend flows higher in June. Permit violations 7/03 & 8/03. but still claim "consistently meeting permit limits" in 6/03-8/03. |
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1 |
9/12/03 |
Raco -County |
Turner -DEP |
Asks what is capacity of Charles Town & what is it processing. |
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1 |
8/2903 |
Raco -County |
Fleshman -DEP |
Asks what is capacity of Charles Town & what is it processing. |
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1 |
9/3/03 |
Reed -DHHS |
Raco -County |
Refers question to Fleshman |
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1 |
8/29/03 |
Raco -County |
Reed -DHHS |
Asks what is capacity of Charles Town & what is it processing. |
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3 |
7/14/98 |
Johnson -DEP, Mallory -Infrastructure Council, Swann -PSC, Legg -BPH? |
Shingleton -Charles Town & Zombro -County |
Charles Town & County need to work out legal arrangements before improving plant, or building new plant or pipe to Shenandoah River |
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2 |
2/3/04 |
Herold -BPH |
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Briar Run subdivision sewage pipes on hold. |
Abbreviations:
BPH -Bureau for Public Health of the WV Dept of Health and Human Services
DEP - WV Dept of Environmental Protection
DHHS -WV Dept of Health and Human Services
kbytes -kilobytes file size
mgd -millions of gallons per day
mg/L BOD - milligrams per liter of Biochemical Oxygen Demand
PSD -Public Service District, which has sewer & water pipes in county, using Charles Town sewage treatment plant
View - engineers, consultants for Charles Town, Ranson, County, Shepherdstown. Formerly Chester Engineers
