North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 15A - Environmental Quality › Chapter 02 - Environmental Management › Subchapter T - WASTE NOT DISCHARGED TO SURFACE WATERS › Section .0300 - SEWER EXTENSIONS › Section 02T .0303 - PERMITTING BY REGULATION

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a)
				  The following systems shall be deemed permitted pursuant to Rule .0113 of this
				  Subchapter if the system meets the criteria in Rule .0113 of this Subchapter
				  and all criteria required for that system in this Rule:
(1) a building sewer documented by the local
				  building inspector to be in compliance with the North Carolina State Plumbing
				  Code and that serves a single building with the sole purpose of conveying
				  wastewater from that building into a gravity sewer that extends onto or is
				  adjacent to the building's property. A building sewer that contributes more
				  than five percent of the existing wastewater treatment facility's design
				  capacity or 50,000 gallons per day of flow as calculated using the wastewater
				  design flow rates in Rule .0114 of this Subchapter shall not commence
				  operations until a letter of agreement, meeting the requirements of
				  15A NCAC
				  02T .0304(g), has been
				  submitted to and approved by the regional office;
(2) a gravity sewer serving a single building
				  with less than 600 gallons per day of flow as calculated using rates in
				  15A NCAC
				  02T .0114 that crosses another property or
				  parallels a right-of-way, provided that:
(A)
				  an easement for crossing another property is obtained, a map is created, and
				  both are recorded at the Register of Deeds office in the county of residence
				  for both property owners and runs with the land or, in the case of a building
				  sewer traveling along a right-of-way, documented permission from the dedicated
				  right-of-way owner to use such right-of-way;
(B) the building inspector certifies the
				  sewer to the point of connection to the existing sewer is in accordance with
				  state or local plumbing code; and
(C) no other connections are made to the
				  sewer without prior approval from the Division;
(3) a pump station and force main serving a
				  single building with less than 600 gallons per day of flow as calculated using
				  the wastewater design flow rates in Rule .0114 of this Subchapter provided
				  that:
(A) an easement for crossing another
				  property is obtained, a map is created, and both are recorded at the Register
				  of Deeds office in the county of residence for both property owners and runs
				  with the land or, in the case of a force main traveling along a right-of-way,
				  documented permission form the dedicated right-of-way owner to use such
				  right-of-way;
(B) if a force main
				  is used, it ties into a non-pressurized pipe, manhole or wetwell;
(C) the system is approved by the local
				  building inspector as being in complete compliance with the North Carolina
				  Plumbing Code to the point of connection to the existing sewer; and
(D) no other connections are made to the
				  sewer without prior approval from the Division;
(4) the following sewer operations, provided
				  that the work conforms to all rules, setbacks and design standards; record
				  drawings of the completed project are kept for the life of the project; and new
				  sources of wastewater flow, immediate or future, are not planned to be
				  connected to the sewer other than previously permitted but not yet tributary:
(A) rehabilitation or replacement of sewers
				  of the same size and with the same horizontal and vertical alignment;
(B) rehabilitation or replacement of public
				  6-inch sewers with 8-inch sewers, provided that the rehabilitation or
				  replacement is to correct deficiencies and bring the sewer up to current
				  standards;
(C) line relocations of
				  the same pipe size and within the same right-of-way or easement;
(D) parallel line installations of the same
				  size and within the right-of-way or easement where the existing line will be
				  abandoned;
(E) point repairs;
				  and
(F) in-place pump station
				  repairs or upgrades that maintain permitted capacity to within five percent of
				  the original permitted capacity for pump replacement.