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STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
DIVISION OF WATER AND WASTE MANAGEMENT

PUBLIC NOTICE

WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION'S, PUBLIC INFORMATION 
OFFICE, 601 57TH STREET, CHARLESTON SE, WEST VIRGINIA 25304-2345 TELEPHONE: 
(304) 926-0440.

APPLICATION FOR A WEST VIRGINIA NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM 
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PERMIT

Public Notice No.:  L-118-17			Public Notice Date: 
October 17, 2017

Paper:  The Herald Record

The following has applied for a WV NPDES Water Pollution Control Permit for 
this facility or activity:

Appl. No.:	WV0020109

Applicant:	WEST UNION, TOWN OF
		PO BOX 5
		WEST UNION, WV 26456
		 

Location:	WEST UNION, DODDRIDGE COUNTY

Latitude:	39:17:49				Longitude: 	80:46:56

Receiving Stream:
Unnamed Tributary/Middle Island Creek

Activity:	
To operate and maintain an existing combined wastewater collection system and 
an existing 0.2 million gallons per day wastewater treatment plant.  Facilities 
are to serve a population equivalent of approximately 2,000 persons in the Town 
of West Union and environs, including the West Virginia North Central Regional 
Jail, and to discharge treated wastewater through Outlet No. 001 to Middle 
Island Creek, approximately 70.9 miles from its mouth, of the Ohio River.  An 
antidegradation review has been conducted.  Tier 1 protection is provided for 
the uses specified in Title 47, Series 2, Section 6 for Outlet No. 001.  To 
operate and maintain disposal systems, best management practices, and the nine 
(9) minimum controls for the direct discharge of sanitary wastewater and storm 
water from Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Outlet Nos. C002 and C003 to Middle 
Island Creek.  These CSO Outlets are permitted to discharge only when the 
hydraulic capacity of the collection system is exceeded during wet weather 
events.  Tier 1 protection shall be afforded for the uses specified in Title 
47, Series 2, Section 6 for the CSO Outlets through the implementation of the 
CSO Control Policy and the facility's site-specific Long-term Control Plan.  To 
accept nondomestic wastewater from Prima Marketing LLC for subsequent treatment 
and disposal.   Also, to incorporate the requirements relative to Title 33, 
Series 2 of the West Virginia Legislative Rules for the processing and disposal 
of sewage sludge generated by the wastewater treatment plant.  Sewage sludge 
generated and/or processed at the permittee's facility shall be disposed of at 
a sanitary landfill by placing the sewage sludge in the landfill cell.   To 
acquire, construct, install, operate and maintain improvements to the existing 
wastewater collection system.  The purpose of this project is to separate the 
combined sewer and eliminate CSO Outlet No. C002.

Business conducted:
Municipality

Implementation:
Compliance with the Combined Sewer Overflow requirements shall be attained 
through Administrative Order No. 6337, dated the 31st day of January 2008, and 
any amendments, thereto.  Compliance with the other permit terms and conditions 
shall be attained through Administrative Order No. 8756 to be issued with the 
final permit.

	On the basis of review of the application, the "Water Pollution 
Control Act (Chapter 22, Article 11-8(a))," and the "West Virginia Legislative 
Rules," the State of West Virginia will act on the above application.

	Any interested person may submit written comments on the draft permit 
and may request a public hearing by addressing such to the Director of the 
Division of Water and Waste Management within 30 days of the date of the public 
notice.  Such comments or requests should be addressed to:

		Director, Division of Water and Waste Management, DEP
		ATTN:  Lori Devereux, Permitting Section
		601 57th Street SE
		Charleston, WV  25304-2345

	The public comment period begins October 17, 2017 and ends November 
16, 2017.

	Comments received within this period will be considered prior to 
acting on the permit application.  Correspondence should include the name, 
address and the telephone number of the writer and a concise statement of the 
nature of the issues raised.  The Director shall hold a public hearing whenever 
a finding is made, on the basis of requests, that there is a significant degree 
of public interest on issues relevant to the Draft Permit(s).  Interested 
persons may contact the public information office to obtain further information.

	The application, draft permit and any required fact sheet may be 
inspected, by appointment, at the Division of Water and Waste Management Public 
Information Office, at 601 57th Street SE, Charleston, WV 25304-2345, between 
8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on business days.  Copies of the documents may be 
obtained from the Division at a nominal cost.