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Capacity Assessment
Onsite Wastewater System
Community Bridge, LLC
Additional Usage as Educational Transformation Centre
Physical Address: 2001 Earlysville Road, Charlottesville, VA 22901
Mailing Address: 1775 Earlysville Road, Charlottesville, VA 22901
ATTN: Albemarle VDH
Assessment conducted by Old Dominion Engineering (ODE)
The Facility
The facility located at 2001 Earlysville Road, Charlottesville, VA 22901, TM 45-31D
(3.276 acres) was originally used as a 100 maximum occupancy church with kitchen and
no daycare. The new owner wants to use the building for community outreach. Uses
include:
• A new church
o Evergreen Ministries
■ 2 services on Sunday with a combined occupancy of 70
• Alternative Education Program/Tutoring
o Educational Transformation Centre
■ Max 24 occupants at the building (a combination of students and
faculty)
Open from Monday to Friday 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM
The facility serves high school age students for a six week session
No food is prepared on premises (packed lunches)
The building is served by a well permitted through local VDH. The well is called out in
the 1982 permit as a IIB well with 50' casing and grout. The casing is steel, however no
information is available with Office of Drinking Water. For this analysis the well is
considered a IIIB well.
The building is served by a conventional drainfield system permitted through Virginia
Department of Health (VDH) in 1982.
This capacity assessment is to determine if the proposed change of usage of the building
from church to a church and alternative education program/tutoring can be supported by
the existing septic system. As part of this capacity assessment Old Dominion
Engineering (ODE) inspected the visible system components and dispersal area, and
reviewed the available existing septic permit information.
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Current Onsite Wastewater Treatment and Dispersal System
The onsite septic system consists of.
• A 4" gravity sewer collection system
• One 1,500 gallon settling tank
• Conventional Drainfield System
0 5 trenches, 100 foot long, 3 foot wide (1500 sgft) 36" deep
0 100% reserve drainfield denoted in 1982 permit adjacent to the primary
drainfield
• VDH Operation Permit for 500 gpd at Septic Tank Effluent.
The drainfield was installed in 1982 as a new drainfield.
ODE inspected the drainfield area. No surfacing was found in the dispersal areas.
Note - Tom Hogge AOSE inspected the drainfield, septic tank and d-box in 2016 and
found it to be in working order. The building has had little usage since that time.
Wastewater Characterization
The assessment will be done based upon a peak loading. There is no flow equalization.
Since the usages are not concurrent (church on Sunday and tutoring center from Monday
through Friday), two analyses were done.
The assessment was done two ways:
• 70 occupant Church utilizing the kitchen (note - the church does not currently use
the kitchen, however the analysis was done considering the future usage of the
kitchen)
• 24 occupant Alternative Education Program/Tutoring
The basis for our assessment is provided in the following tables:
Water Usage and Wastewater Strength Basis - Tod 4531D
Water
BODIES
Usage
Usage
Water Usage Estimate Birds
Strength
BODiTSS Strength Basis
Rates
(regll)
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West Virginia Onade Wastewater Treatment Spume Manuel
Weal Virginia Doaite Wastewater Treatment Systems
Church who ducted
5
Table Bit), Church will Kitchen-(5 gripper member per
480
Manual Table Bit], Church with Kitchen -(02In SOD/per
day)
member per day)
Alternative Education
10
Per 12VAi/ C S-61"70 Boo Day conseded toc.Wed.
300
Per 12VAC 5-810400 SOD i/Day converted to
ProgramRutoring
School without arrester -(10 gpd/per person per day)
conw.ntra8on-Rebound
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Peak Daily Water Usage and Wastewater Strength Estimate - Church with Kitchen
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350
480
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Total
350
480
1.4
Note - at 100 members at the Church with kitchen, the maximum daily water usage would be 500 gpd.
Peak Daily Water Usage and Wastewater Strength Estimate - Tutoring Center
TM 45-31 B
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Alternative Education Program/Tutoring
24
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240
300
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Total
240
300
0.6
The community building will produce slightly higher than residential strength effluent.
Peak Design Usage on Sunday - 350 gpd @ 480 mg/l BOD (1.4 lbs BOD per day)
Average Design Usage - 221.4 gpd @ 340 mg/l BOD (63 lbs BOD per day)
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Wastewater System Capacity for New Usage
1500 gallon septic tank capacity @ 2 day detention time
V 1500ga1
Q = 750d0 2days
Weekend Church - 350 gpd < 750 gpd (OK)
Weekday Alternative Education Program/Tutoring - 240 gpd < 750 gpd (OK)
Drainfield Capacity
VDH operation permit allows up to 500 gpd. The VDH design hydraulic loading
rate is consistent with a texture group II soil with a 45 mpi perc rate.
Weekend Church - 350 gpd < 500 gpd (OK)
Weekday Alternative Education Program/Tutoring - 240 gpd < 500 gpd (OK)
Note - The church would be able to expand to the originally permitted occupancy
of 100 members.
The wastewater effluent strength is expected to be slightly higher than residential
strength for BOD or TSS (with a church with kitchen). At typical septic tank
BOD/TSS removal efficiency (40%-50%) and dilution from the tutoring center
wastewater, the drainfield has adequate capacity for long term acceptance of the
anticipated wastewater strength.
ODE Comments
1. The existing onsite wastewater system capacity appears adequate for the new
sanitary usage as a 70 member church with kitchen and nonconcurrent usage of a
24 occupant Alternative Education Program/Tutoring.
2. The church with kitchen would be able to expand to 100 members and not exceed
the capacity of the septic system.
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ODE Recommendations
1. At the projected building usage, the well is adequately permitted (IIIB Well
through VDH). Any expansion of the tutoring center beyond 24 occupants per
day would require re -permitting the well as a IIB through Virginia Department of
Health - Office of Drinking Water. It is strongly recommended to start this re -
permitting early if an expansion is considered.
2. It is recommended (but not required) that a high quality effluent filter and riser/lid
be installed on the septic tank effluent pipe. This will allow easy monitoring and
pumping of the septic tank as well as provide for additional treatment of the septic
tank effluent prior to entering the drainfield.
3. It is recommended for the owner to install a water meter to monitor the water
usage at the building.
General Note - It is impossible to tell the exact condition of the dispersal trenches or the degree of use they
have incurred over their life. The drainfield trenches were deemed to have not failed during the time of the
inspection, but that is no guarantee of future performance.
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