ML20127C990
| ML20127C990 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Limerick  |
| Issue date: | 06/19/1985 |
| From: | Willsey W PECO ENERGY CO., (FORMERLY PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC |
| To: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8506240087 | |
| Download: ML20127C990 (9) | |
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PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC COMPANY 2850633480 2301 MARKET STREET P.O. BOX 8699 PHILADELPHI A. PA.19101 1215)841 4000 June 19, 1985 Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 RE:
NPDES Permit Amendment No. 1 for Limerick Generating Station
Dear Sir:
In accordance with " Appendix B of the Limerick Generating Station Operating License No. NPF-27, Environmental Protection Plan", attached is the subject NPDES permit amendment for Limerick Generating Station which covers the use of three cooling water additives (polyacrylate, sodium silicate, and tolyltriazale).
The attached permit amendment is in effect from June 4, 1985 to September 19, 1989.
Sincerely yours, W.
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Willsey Director Environmental Affairs Attachment DWM:nas cc:
Administrator, Region I Office of Inspection and Enforcement US Nuclear Regulatory Commission 631 Park Avenue pk King of Prussia, PA 19406 8506240087 850619 I\\
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W. B. Willsey Director Environmental Affairs Re: Ind. Waste NPDES Permit No. PA0051926 Amendment No. 1 Philadelphia Electric (Limerick Generating Station)
Limerick Township Montgomery County Gentlemen:
Enclosed please End amended pages (page 1, 2,14a and 14c) of the NPDES Permit No. PA0051926 issued on September 19, 1984 that covers discharge of effluent to the Schuylkill River from Outfall 001. The permit is being amended to incor-porate effluent limits on three cooling water additives, Polyacrylate, Sodium Silicate and Tolyltriazole and also delete the temperature requirement on the Perkiomen Creek intake supply.
A master copy of the amended page of the DMR form relative to the Outfall 001 is also enclosed. This master should be reproduced for your use relative to the required DMR which uust be submitted on a unnthly basis to EPA and our Department.
Please study the permit amendment carefully and direct any questions to the Permit Section of the Office.
Very truly yours, A.GA OS A. H DIA Regional Water Quality Manager JAF:DB:bjo
Enclosures:
Amended Page 1, 2, 14a and 14c Amended IMR for Outfall 001 cc: Limerick Township Permits and Compliance EPA DRBC RE 30 4 NPDES.26
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REFSEQNc; 2850626960 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES 285063348L BUREAU OF WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT AUTHORIZATION TO DISCHARGE UNDER THE NATIONAL POLLUTANT D5 CHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM INDUSTRIAL PERMIT NO. PA 0051926 Amendment #1 In compliance with the provisions of the Clean Water Act,33 U.S.C. Section 1251 et seq. (the "Act") and Pennsylvania's Clean Streams Law, as amended, 35 P.S. Section 691.1 et seq.,
Philadelphia Electric Company is authorized to discharge from a facility located at Limerick Township Montgomery County to receiving waters named Schuylkill River and Possum Hollow Run in accordance with effluent limitations, monitoring requirements and other conditions set forth in Parts A, B, and C hereof.
This permit and the authorization to discharge shall expire at midnight, September 19,.1989 The authority granted by this permit is subject to the following further qualifications:
1.
If there is a conflict between the application, its supporting documents and/or amendments and the terms and conditions of this permit, the terms and conditions shall apply.
2.
Failure to comply with the terms or conditions of this permit is grounds for enforcement action; for permit termination, revocation and reissuance, or modification; or for denial of a permit renewal application.
3.
Application for renewal of this permit, or notification of intent to cease discharging -
by the expiration date, must be submitted to the Department at least 180 days prior to the above expiration date (unless permission ~has been granted by the Department for submission at a later date), using the appropriate NPDES permit application form. In the event that a timely and complete application for renewal has been submitted and the Department is unable, through no fault of the permittee, to reissue the permit before the above expiration date, the terms and conditions of this permit will be automatically continued and will remain fully effective and enforceable pending the grant or denial of the application for permit renewal.
4.
This NPDES permit does not constitute authorization to construct or make modifications to wastewater treatment facilities necessary to meet the terms and conditions of this permit.
AMENDED PERMIT ISSUED BY
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EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS AND MONITORING REQUIRD4ENIS, FOR DISCHARGE 001; IOCATED AT IATITUDE 40*13'10",
IDNGITUDE 75 35'20", WHICH RECEIVES WASTE FROM: combined discharges (STP, holding pond, treated radwaste, Unit 1 cooling tower blowdown and spray pond blowdown).
A.
'Ihe permittee is authorized to discharge during the period from issuance through expiration.
B.
Based on production data and anticipated wastewater characteristics and flows described in the permit application and its supporting documents and/or amendments, the following effluent limitations and monitoring requirements apply:
DISCHARGE LIMITATIONS
- MONITORING REQUIREMENIS DISCHARGE MASS UNITS (lbs/ day)-
CONCENIRATIONS (mg/1)
INSTAN-24100R PARAMETERS AVERAGE MAXIMlM AVERAGE MAXIMLM TANEDUS MEASURD4ENT SAMPLE REPORT MONIHLY DAILY ITNDiLY IRILY MAXIMLM EREQUENCY TYPE UNDER A.3.C FIDW (MGD)
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 1/ Week Measured N/A FREE AVAIIABLE CHIORINE **
N/A N/A N/A 0.2 0.5 1/ Week ***
Grab N/A PRIORITY POLLETIANTS N/A N/A See Other Requirements E Not Monitored N/A TEMPERATURE *'***
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 1/ Week i-s N/A 4
PH Within Limits of 6 to 9 Standard Units at all times 1/ Week Grab N/A l
POLYACRYIATE 1
Monitor Only 1/ Month Grab SODILM SILICATE 44.0 1/ Month Grab N/A i
i-TOLYL'IRIAZOLE 5.2 1/ Month Grab N/A There shall be no discharge of floating solids or visible foam in other than trace amounts.
Samples taken in compliance with the monitoring requirements specified above shall be taken at the following
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- At Outfall 001 prior to smderwater diffuser.
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- Unless otherwise indicated, these are gross discharge limitations.
- See Other Requirement D.
- Samples to be analyzed for Free Available Glorine shall be collected on a day when, in accordance with the chlorine feed schedule, the permittee believes chlorine will be present in the cooling tower blowdown. At least 1
two grab samples shall be analyzed by the amperametric-titration method during the two hour chlorine release i
period. The average of all such analyses made over a single period of chlorine release shall comply with the above Free Available Glorine Maxixara Daily limitation.
- See Other Requirement A.
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Amenrtnat No.1 nEFSEQNO-2850626960 onen maquneenrs A.
The following requirements apply with respect to the thermal impact of the discharges upon the Schuylkill River:
The discharge shall not cause a rise of stream temperature when the ambient stream temperature is 87 F or above; nor cause nore than a 5 F rise above ambient temperature mtil stream temperature reaches 87 F nor cause a change of stream temperature by nore than 2,F during any; one-hour period.
The permittee shall nonitor the temperature of water at the intake on the Schuylkill River at least once per week and shall report the results on the nonthly DR for Outfall 001.
B.
There shall be no discharge of polychlorinated biphenyl compounds (PCB's) from any cutfall at any tiIne.
C.
Effective disinfection to control disease producing organisms shall be the production of an effluent which will contain a concentration not greater than 200/100 ml of fecal coliform organisms as a geometric averase value, nor greater than 1000/100 ml of these organisms in nore than 10% of the samples tested.
D.
Neither free available &lorine (FAC) nor total residual chlorine (TRC) may be dis ed from any generating mit for nore than t:wo hours in any me day not nore than one gpnerating mit in any plant may discharge free available or total residual chlorine at any one time.
This requirement shall take effect exactly 15 months after the station begins commercial operation, miess the permittee can demonstrate to thE Department that the generating mits in e particular location can-not operate at or below this level of chlorination. During the interim the permittee shall limit chlorination of water used in thE cooling tower to two hours per day and shall comply with the FAC limits for Discharge 001. FAC and TRC shall be anay1 zed using the respective anperometric titration method.
E.
The discharge of any of the 126 priority pollutants in detectable anounts is prohibited from cooling tower discharges if the pollutants originate from cooling tower maintenance demicals. No chemical addi-tion (except chlorine, polyacrylate, sodium silicate and tolyltriazole) or treatment for control of corrosion, algae, slime, etc. shall be made
'to the cooling water which discharge is covered by this permit unless such chemical addition or treatment is approved beforehand by the Department.
F.
Effluent limitations, monitoring requirements, and other standard and special conditions which relate to the discharge (s) of pollutants authorized by this permit and which are contained in Water Quality Management Permit (s)
No. 4671202 issued on 7/16/76 No. 4672437 issued on 7/16/76 PA0024414 issued on 12/11/81 are superseded by the terms and conditions of this permit, miess specifically noted otherwise herein.
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If, in the opinion of the Department, these works are.not so operated or if by reason of change in the character of wastes or increased load upon the works, or dianged use or condition of the receiving body of water, or otherwise, the said effluent ceases to be satisfactory or the sewerage facilities shall have created public misance then upon notice by the Department the right herein granted to dl.scharge such effluent shall cease and W mil and void uiless within the time specified by the Department the permittee shall adopt such remedial measures as will produce an, effluent which, in the opinion of the Department, will be satisfactory for discharge into the said receiving body of water.
K.
No storm water from pavements, area ways, roofs, foundation drains or other sources shall be admitted to the sanitary sewers associated with the herein approved discharge.
L.
The approval herein gl.ven is specifically made contingent upon the permittee acquiring H11 necessary property rights by easement or otherwise, providing for the satisfactory construction, operation, maintenance and replacement of all sewers or sewerage structures associated with the herein approved discharge in, along, or across private property, with full rights of ingress, egress and regress.
M.
Debris collected on the intake trash racks shall not be returned to the waterway.
N.
The permittee shall conduct a study to determine the influent and effluent levels of the following parameters:
total chrnminm, total per, total lead total nickel total zine total dissolved solids temperature. Such study shall occur durl.ng the period from July 1 through D-e=r 31 of the first year chring which the entire period is available following the station's consnencement of n=wrcial operation.
As a minimLER, monitoring for the above parameters shall be done once per week by grab sample of Discharge 001, Schuylkill River intake water and Perkiomen Creek intake water (except temperature). Within 90 days of completion of the study, the permittee shall submit a report to the Department and EPA which presents all nonitoring data collected. The Department reserves the right to require further studies or nonitoring or to modify or revoke and reissue this permit to establish effluent limitations and monitoring requirements for the parameters included in the study.
O.
This permit cbes not approve any cooling tower blowdown discharge from Unit 2 cooling tower. If the permittee wishes to place this cooling tower into operation chring the life of this permit, the permittee uust first obtain an amendment to this permit. An application for such amendment shall be submitted to the Department at least 180 days prior to nns=wncement of a cooling tower blowdown discharge from Unit 2 cooling tower. '1he discharge of construction related wastewater, in compliance with the effluent limits for Manitoring Point 401, is approved by this permit.
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2850633480 ncFsEQNo-2850626960 Additional Instructions for Utilizing Tne National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Systcm DISCHARGE FD.'1I'IORIhU REPORP 7r.e attached originals of the h? DES Discharge Monitoring Report have been provided to you as a nuster. The permit establishes specific effluent monitoring and reporting requirenents and those values are repeated on the original Discharge Monitoring Report provided for you.. The "N/A" placed in the permit condition block of the Discharge Ibnitoring Report indicates one of tw things:
(1) that the parameter is monitored but no limitations are imposed, and the pertinent value nust be reported; or (2) that the parameter is limited elsewhere on the Discharge Monitoring Report, and the value shoald be reported if it is available.
Yo.tr reports are to be sutrtittcd by u,tilizing copies of the attached i
forms. Do no write on or send the attachal originals, but rather:
(1) make copies of them, (2) fill oat the copies as appropriate, (3) make the necessary copies of the completed (filled out)' form, and (4) sutmit these
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