ROY COOPER MICHAEL S. REGAN Secretary Water Resources LINDA CULPEPPER Envionmertal Quality “interim Direcor May 21, 2018 CERTIFIED MAIL 7016 2140 0000 0562 4493 ‘RETURN RECEIPT REQUEST! William Powell John Melvin Farm 3635 Tomahawk Hwy Harrells, NC 28444 SUBJECT: Lagoon Sampling - April 13, 2018 John Melvin Farm Permit # AWS820286 Sampson County Dear William Powell: Thank you for your cooperation in the Division’s lagoon waste sampling efforts on April 13, 2018. On that day seven teams of Division staff sampled 35 farms and a total of 55 waste lagoons. Multiple teams were necessary to assure that teams followed proper biosecurity protocols to protect your animals. I apologize for the short notice that was provided to you by our staff. It was our intent to do the sampling as efficiently and effectively as possible with as little disruption to you and other operators. Staff notified you as soon as possible once we were comfortable that weather would cooperate and we had staff prepared to complete the desired sampling on a single day. Complete results of the sampling are available on the NCDA&CS Agronomic Services Division PALS website and can be accessed there at your convenience. http://www ncagr.gov/agronomi/pals/ ‘The Division submitted the samples to the lab on April 13, and the standard waste analysis was performed the following week. The certified results are available to use for loading rate calculations in you waste application records. Our staff followed sampling protocol established by NCDAS&CS Agronomic Sampling Folder No. 6, revised April 2014, a copy of which is included with this letter. You may at any time resample your lagoons to establish updated results if you feel more representative sample is desired for future application events. One of the intents of the sampling effort was to look at observed changes in lagoon sampling results in a relatively short period of time. Our records show that a previous sampling event took place on March 17, 2018, Results of the April 13 and March 17 sampling events are shown on the following pages for each lagoon sampled on your farm, -<>-Nothing Compares ‘Sut of Nosh Curling | Envtonmental Quality Divison of Wate Resources Water Quay Reional Operations Seton 1636 Mit Service Center| Raleigh, Nor Corona 27689-1636 919-707 9129Lagoon Sampling ~ April 13, 2018 Page 2 Lagoon Name: JM44 ‘Sample Date 3/A7 - 4/13 Parameter 3/17/2018 4/13/2018 Difference | % change 524 349 25 5% 22 23 ot 5% a2 2 [| 20 “47% aa 906) 461 104% 112 140 28 25% 28 45, 16 57% 30 36 6 20% 24 29 Os 23% 0.3 04 O1 35% 7 07 o1 9% 02 12 10 506% 0.4 07 02 52% 171.0 2177 46.7 27% 74 79 Os 7% 05 Asarresult of initial evaluation of the sampling results the Division will be conducting additional evaluation of historic data at your farms and at the other farms that were sampled on April 13, 2018. It is necessary to farther investigate the unusual changes in lagoon characteristics between March 17 and April 13, 2018 Please contact the Fayetteville Regional Office at (910) 433-3300 or Christine Lawson at (919) 807- 6354 if you have further questions. Sincerely, © Lam Chief, Water Quality Regional Operations Section Division of Water Resources Enclosure ce: Fayetteville WQROS Regional Supervisor WQROS Central Files