North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 15A - Environmental Quality › Chapter 18 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH › Subchapter A - SANITATION › Section .1900 - SEWAGE TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL SYSTEMS › Section 18A .1938 - RESPONSIBILITIES

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) The permitting
				  of a wastewater system shall be the responsibility of agents authorized by the
				  State in accordance with
				  G.S.
				  130A-40,
				  130A-50, and registered with the
				  State of North Carolina Board of Sanitarian Examiners if required in G.S. 90A
				  Article 4.
(b) The person owning or
				  controlling the system shall be responsible for assuring compliance with the
				  laws, rules, and permit conditions regarding system location, installation,
				  operation, maintenance, monitoring, reporting, and repair.
(c) Prior to the issuance of an Improvement
				  Permit or Construction Authorization, plans and specifications may be required
				  by the local health department where there is an unsuitable soil or unsuitable
				  characteristic and shall be required for drainage systems serving two or more
				  lots. These plans and specifications shall be required to be prepared by a
				  person or persons who are licensed or registered to consult, investigate,
				  evaluate, plan or design wastewater systems, soil and rock characteristics,
				  ground water hydrology, or drainage systems if required in G.S. 89C, 89E, 89F,
				  and 90A Article 4.
(d) Any
				  wastewater system which meets one or more of the following conditions shall be
				  designed by a registered professional engineer if required by G.S. 89C:
(1) The system is designed to handle over
				  3,000 gallons per day, as determined in Rule .1949(a) or (b) of this Section,
				  except where the system is limited to an individual septic tank system serving
				  an individual dwelling unit or several individual septic tank systems, each
				  serving an individual dwelling unit.
(2) The system requires pretreatment before
				  disposal, other than by a conventional septic or other system approved under
				  Rule .1957 or .1969 of this Section.
(3) The system requires use of sewage pumps
				  prior to the septic tank or other pretreatment system, except for systems
				  subject to the North Carolina Plumbing code or which consist of grinder pumps
				  and associated pump basins that are approved and listed in accordance with
				  standards adopted by the National Sanitation Foundation.
(4) The individual system is required by Rule
				  .1952 of this Section to use more than one pump or siphon in a single pump
				  tank.
(5) The system includes a
				  collection sewer, prior to the septic tank or other pretreatment system, which
				  serves two or more buildings, except for systems subject to the North Carolina
				  Plumbing Code.
(6) The system
				  includes structures which have not been pre-engineered.
(7) The system is designed for the
				  collection, treatment and disposal of industrial process wastewater, except
				  under the following circumstances:
(A) the
				  State has determined that the wastewater generated by the proposed facility has
				  a pollutant strength which is lower than or equal to domestic sewage, and does
				  not require specialized pretreatment or management, or
(B) the State has pre-approved a predesigned
				  pretreatment system or process and management method proposed by the facility
				  owner which shall enable the industrial process wastewater to have a pollutant
				  strength which is lower than or equal to domestic sewage.
(8) Any other system serving a business or
				  multi-family dwelling so specified by the local health department.