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I'd like to make another comment about one person not being inspect^d for four years.
Maybe he's a very good operator and maybe he doesn't have to be inspected. You know, if
'd ghway and ya.• arc obeying the rules you probably don't get stopped for
you're out on the
speeding, and you don't get any tickets. I don't kow, he didn't identify the operator.
Maybe the operator is not operating any plants or maybe every plant he has been operating,
hopefully, has been so good that he didn't need to get inspected. But the information I'm
getting back about who's going to operate this plant, these people have t� b^_ licensed,
first of all. They do send these tests in, and there is a history that is maintained at
the state level over what goes on in these little treatment plants. They know when you
are getting out of line or you're getting out of sten.
I'm not an expert, and I don't know how often the state is supposed to inspect these
people or go by and check their licenses or check what labs they are using, but I'm sure
various people in different parts of the state that are good and some are bad like we have
in anything. I did read a recommendation from Carroll Williams saying that the operators
in this part of the state have been very well kept up with and checked, and their licenses
are current, and they're doing a good job.
1 think that's about all I know about waste water treatment plants. You've got it
all out of me in one night, but I'm learining as 1 go along on this, and it's no easy
matter to put one of these into operation. The end doesn't com^ when you get it
operating. It's a continuing thing. Chemicals, like Carroll said, there are no chemicals
except chlorine.
I went over and looked at one, and there's a brand new one, if you'd like to seoff
going into operation over in another adjacent county, over at Spinnaker Bay,
which is ---Road. It's a first-class system, and they do discharge into the lake. They go down
and run in a trough so far, and it's within 75 feet of the building. It sits above
ground. al super system, nowho theycaus. I think ttwas pricedy must eatosomewhereto do sar u dl antin$60,000. c. It
But I'm going to go back a bit farther. I was also told when i wert for this PRD
that I didn't have a prayer of getting a small treatment plant because they were just not
hing test poured out there, to make
approved on the county level in iredell County. So if you are wondering why I went with,
and that's v!hy we Ment to the•expensc of having that t
sure it will perk. And it will perk. And that's how we got approval for nitrification
fields.
We didn't promise n, t to go into the lake with the effluent. I didn't know that
there was a little stream down there at that time. But we made sure that the land would
perk first, then we came in and we went for nitrification fields, and sinwillce then
we've
found that there's a better system, that realty has, and, hey, is correctible within
panical
roblems with it, but the mechanical problems (not clear) .
hours versus a (not clear) . system in a nitrification field, it could take months and
years to correct. Sometimes they aro n-gradeeven
operator, and Ilong
knowtime.
is lookedtintosevery
know, it's checked once a �ueek by a top -g
day by someone who takes samples and makes sure those are sent off to a qualified and
licensed laboratory.
So I'm going to sit down. That's all I know about it. I do ask that if you can
consider my request for the placing of the sewage tratment plant on the PRD in such a way
�;,at I can go ahead and design for it and be somewhat grandfathered in your ordinance
because my engineer cannot design until he knows for sure he's got a set of rules to go
by. He just can't put one together. Secondly, if we start out with nitrification fields,
now we change the entire ^_ffect of the condominium project because we got to provide X
number o yards, you kooduo withthe this. Youcation can't ttart and0ur planithetlandscaps and ing andut or
landsprovide for all has
provide for four or fiv^_ acres for nitrification fields versus 25 x 50 foot for a little
sewage treatment plant. So I'd like to have your approval by way of a motion from someone
to go with this and design for a sewage treatment plant and be allowed to use it in this
PRD. Thank you.
HEDRICK: Duane, do you have any additional units that would be constructed if you
went to that type ofsystem versus the septic system?
LEWIS: We have the same criteria for our (not clear) .
. We have to come back to
you for any additional units, and I plan none.
HEDRICK: Is it going to cost you more or less to do that package treatment facility
than the septic system?
LE':IS: It costs a lot more in the front end; however, over the long haul it's about
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