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2 <br /> REPORT: Carden's Mobile Home Park Waste Treatment System <br /> Carden's is a mobile home park with a layout capacity of 27 mobile <br /> homes and one frame house located on the north side of Hwy 70, <br /> east of Hillsborough and approximately 200 yards west of the <br /> intersection of Hwy 70 and University Station Road. At the <br /> present time, there are sixteen mobile homes in the park. <br /> Presently, six of the mobile homes are connected to community or <br /> individual septic tanks with nitrification fields, and ten mobile <br /> homes and one frame house are connected to a community septic <br /> tank/sand filter discharging waste treatment system. The existing <br /> waste treatment system discharges a very low quality effluent to a <br /> roadway ditch on the north side of Hwy 70. Carden's has been <br /> ordered by the North Carolina Division of Environmental Management <br /> to replace the discharging treatment system with a package <br /> treatment plant due to the low quality of existing treatment. <br /> Basically, the history of sewage treatment difficulty at Carden's <br /> Mobile Home Park is some twenty years old. The Regional Health <br /> Department gave Mr. Carden permission to build a combination <br /> septic tank\sand filter discharging sewage treatment system. The <br /> discharge point for the Carden's system was and remains a roadside <br /> drainage ditch, constructed by the NC Department of Transportation <br /> to control drainage for Hwy 70. The stormwater from this ditch <br /> was designed to be carried under the highway by a stormwater <br /> culvert in front of Carden's. The culvert discharges into another <br /> stormwater drainage ditch which crosses the pasture located <br /> directly. across Hwy 70 from Carden's. This ditch drains away from <br /> the highway in a southerly direction (perpendicular to the <br /> highway) , and eventually discharges into the channel of an <br /> intermittent or wet weather creek which runs parallel to the <br /> highway and discharges into Stoney Creek on the south side of Hwy <br /> 70. <br /> At the time the initial sewer treatment system permit was issued, <br /> all discharging systems, including the type installed at Carden's, <br /> were under the jurisdiction of the NC Division of Environmental <br /> Management. The original permit for Carden's treatment system was <br /> improperly issued by the Regional Health Department, rather than <br /> DEM. The permitting of the Carden's system was improper for <br /> reasons in addition to the Regional Health Department's lack of <br /> jurisdiction in permitting a discharging treatment system. The <br /> treatment system's permitted discharge point would not have met <br />