ROY COOPER MICHAEL S. REGAN Secretary LINDA CULPEPPER “interim Director ‘Water Resources . Exvrnmental Quai * May 21, 2018 CERTIFIED MAIL 7016 2140 0000 0562 4264 RETURN RECEIPT REQUES1 William Dotson Herman Davis Houston Farm 400 N Williams Rd Kenansville, NC 28349 SUBJECT: Lagoon Sampling - April 13, 2018 Herman Davis Houston Farm Permit # AWS310237 Duplin County Dear William Dotson: ‘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/agronomii/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 NCDA&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". ‘Sie of Nord Carolina | Eavronnentl Quay | Division of Water Resouces ‘Water Quality Reponsl Operations Section 1636 Mail Service Ceter| Raleigh, Non Carolin 27658-1636 919-7079129Lagoon Sampling — April 13, 2018 Page 2 Lagoon Name: HILL Sample Results (mg/l, PAN in 1bs./1000 gallons) 3/T- 4/13, 3/17/2018 4/13/2018, Difference | % change 521 622, 101 19% 22 26 04 19% 37 24 “13 35% 469) 1195 726 155% 105 127 2 21% 24 o 39 163% 27 31 4 16% 22 BL 09 39% 03 13 10 358% 05 13 08 160% 02 14 12 583% 05 15 1.0 211% 145.8 309.4 163.6 112% 73 79 03 3% 05 0.0 OS 98% Asa result 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 nevessary to further investigate the unusual changes in lagoon characteristics between March 17 and April 13, 2018. Please contact the Wilmington Regional Office at (910) 796-7215 or Christine Lawson at (919) 807- 6354 if you have further questions. EE Jon Risgaard Chief, Water Quality Regional Operations Section Division of Water Resources Enclosure co: Wilmington WQROS Regional Supervisor WQROS Central Files