[Federal Register: January 3, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 1)]
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DELAWARE RIVER BASIN COMMISSION
Notice of Commission Meeting and Public Hearing
Notice is hereby given that the Delaware River Basin Commission
will hold an informal conference followed by a public hearing on
Wednesday, January 19, 2005. The hearing will be part of the
Commission's regular business meeting. Both the conference session and
business meeting are open to the public and will be held at the
Delaware River Basin Commission's offices, 25 State Police Drive in
West Trenton, New Jersey.
The conference among the commissioners and staff will begin at 9:30
a.m. Topics of discussion will include: response to the Athos I oil
spill; staff recommendations on a proposal to amend the Water Quality
Regulations, Water Code and Comprehensive Plan to classify the Lower
Delaware River as Special Protection Waters; progress report on Stage 2
TMDLs for PCBs in the Delaware Estuary; report on the Delaware Estuary
Science Conference of January 10-12, 2005; report on the Flow
Management Technical Advisory Committee Work Group Meetings of November
9-10 and December 3, 2004 and January 6 and 18, 2005; and a proposed
resolution to adopt the Commission's annual budget for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 2005 and to apportion among the signatory parties the
amounts required for support of the Commission's annual and operating
budgets.
The subjects of the public hearing to be held during the 1 p.m.
business meeting include the dockets listed below:
1. Knoll, Inc. D-74-162-2. An application to modify a wastewater
treatment plant discharge for the Knoll Furniture Manufacturing
Facility located off Water Street, approximately 1,000 feet northeast
of its intersection with Peevy Road in Upper Hanover Township,
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. No new treatment facilities are
proposed. A junction box at the sewage treatment plant will be
repaired, and the facility will be rerated to include an additional
3,000 gallons of wastewater flow. Although the current docket provides
for a flow of 0.07 million gallons per day (mgd), the wastewater
treatment plant provides advanced treatment of a total flow of 0.073
mgd from sanitary, process and cooling water sources prior to discharge
to Perkiomen Creek in the Schuylkill River Watershed.
2. Alcoa Extrusions, Inc. D-82-5-3. An application for the renewal
of a ground water withdrawal project to reduce withdrawal from 21.6
million gallons per 30 days (mg/30 days) to 11.0 mg/30 days to supply
the applicant's manufacturing facility from existing Wells Nos. 1 and 2
in the West Branch Schuylkill River Watershed. The project is located
in Cressona Borough, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
3. Occidental Chemical Corporation D-83-9-2. An application to
amend the current docket, which provides for a discharge from the 0.3
million gallons per day (mgd) (design) industrial waste treatment plant
(IWTP) to contain and treat mercury contaminated groundwater at the
applicant's Delaware City chemical manufacturing plant located off
State Route 9 in New Castle County, Delaware. Barrier walls have been
constructed around the perimeter of the Process Area and Waste Lake 1.
Contaminated groundwater from within these containments will be pumped
at a maximum rate of 30 gallons per minute (43,200 gallons per day) for
treatment at an activated carbon treatment system before being
discharged to the existing IWTP for mercury removal. The IWTP discharge
is to the Delaware River in Water Quality Zone 5.
4. County of Chester D-83-15 CP-2. An application to upgrade the
applicant's existing 0.105 mgd sewage treatment plant (STP) from a
secondary treatment facility to tertiary treatment with no increase in
treatment capacity. The STP will continue to serve only the Pocopson
Home and Prison. The STP is located approximately one-half mile north
of the intersection of Route 52 and Wawaset Road in Pocopson Township,
Chester County, Pennsylvania in the Pocopson Creek Watershed. The
existing effluent spray field irrigation system will also be upgraded
and no effluent discharge to surface water is proposed. (This docket
was NAR'd as D-2004-7 CP.)
5. Waste Management Disposal Services of Pennsylvania, Inc. D-88-
54-2. An application to modify a landfill leachate treatment plant
discharge to the tidal Delaware River via a constructed discharge cove
in Water Quality Zone 2. The treatment plant serves the Tullytown and
GROWS Landfills and is located off Bordentown Road in Falls Township,
Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The existing 0.1 million gallons per day
leachate treatment plant utilizes the Best Available Treatment
Technology but cannot consistently meet effluent total dissolved solids
and color limits. The docket holder has requested modification of its
docket to allow an increase in the average discharge concentration of
Total Dissolved Solids to 10,000 mg/l from the current 6,560 mg/l and
an increase in the maximum effluent limit for True Color to 1,500 units
from the current 750 units on a platinum-cobalt scale. In support of
its requested modifications, the docket holder has completed an
environmental study that indicates the changes would result in no
significant impact to the Delaware Estuary. No increase in
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treatment plant capacity is proposed. The docket holder also proposes
to construct two effluent storage tanks at the GROWS leachate treatment
plant to replace an existing tank and seeks approval to haul non-
hazardous leachate to a proposed transfer station that will reroute
flow to the Morrisville Borough sewage treatment plant, just upstream
on the tidal Delaware River within Water Quality Zone 2.
6. Blue Ridge Real Estate Company D-91-46-2. An application for the
renewal of a surface water withdrawal project to continue withdrawal of
12 million gallons per 30 days to supply the applicant's proposed golf
course at the Jack Frost Ski Area from an existing intake in the
Tobyhanna Creek. The project is located in Kidder Township, Carbon
County, Pennsylvania.
7. Borough of Sellersville D-92-84 CP RENEWAL. An application for
the renewal of a ground water withdrawal project to continue withdrawal
of 20.54 mg/30 days to supply the applicant's distribution system from
existing Wells Nos. 1, 4, 5, and 6 in the Tohickon Creek and East
Branch Perkiomen Creek Watersheds. The project is located in West
Rockhill Township and the Borough of Sellersville, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania and is located in the Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground
Water Protected Area.
8. The Premcor Refining Group, Inc. D-93-4-3. An application to
replace the withdrawal of water from Well No. P-9 in the applicant's
water supply system, which has become an unreliable source of supply.
The applicant requests withdrawal from replacement Well No. P-9A. No
change in the total withdrawal from all wells--currently 180 million
gallons per 30 days--is proposed. The project is located in the C&D
Canal East, Dragon Run and Red Lion Creek Watersheds in Delaware City,
New Castle County, Delaware.
9. AMETEK U.S. Gauge Division D-93-25(G)-2. An application for the
renewal of a ground water withdrawal project to continue withdrawal of
3.88 million gallons per 30 days to supply the applicant's industrial
facility and groundwater remediation project from existing Wells Nos.
RW-1 and MW-6S and new Well No. MW-10S in the East Branch Perkiomen
Creek Watershed. The project is located in Sellersville Borough, Bucks
County, Pennsylvania within the Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground Water
Protected Area.
10. United Water Delaware D-96-50 CP-2. An application for the
renewal of a surface water withdrawal project to continue withdrawal of
30 million gallons per day (mgd) to provide supply to the applicant's
public water distribution system, originally docketed under D-91-72 CP,
and for a proposed revision to the operating plan of the tidal capture
structure (TCS) originally docketed under D-96-50 CP. The applicant
requests removal of the Q7-10 passby requirement when the
natural stream flow is less than 17.2 mgd or chlorides immediately at
the outlet of the TCS bypass structure downstream of the TCS are
greater than 250 ppm. Surface water is withdrawn from the confluence of
the White Clay Creek and Red Clay Creek at the Stanton Intake, and/or
from the tidal backflow from the Christina River created by the TCS,
via an intake at the TCS. The modification of the TCS operating plan is
designed to increase water supply reliability during low flow
conditions, attenuate brackish water impacts and maintain essential
physical habitat at the tidal/freshwater interface controlled by the
TCS. The TCS operating plan revision includes incremental passby flow
targets in conjunction with salinity monitoring to protect the
applicant's water supply and preserve depth of water downstream of the
TCS for aquatic habitat protection. The project is located in New
Castle County, Delaware.
11. Plumstead Township D-97-33 CP-2. An application for approval of
a ground water withdrawal project to renew the allocation included in
Docket D-94-43 P.A. and consolidate all other docket approvals for
Plumstead Township, retaining the existing withdrawal from all wells of
15.31 million gallons per 30 days (mg/30 days). Docket D-97-33 CP-2
consolidates allocations approved under D-92-76 P.A., D-94-43 P.A., D-
95-18 CP and D-97-33 CP. The project is located in the North Branch
Neshaminy Creek, Geddes Run, Cabin Run and Pine Run Watersheds in
Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, within the Southeastern
Ground Water Protected Area.
12. Green-Waltz Water Company, Inc., Nestl[eacute] Waters North
America Inc., D-98-55-2. An application for approval of a ground water
withdrawal project to supply up to 11.7 million gallons per 30 days
(mg/30 days) of water for bulk water supply to the applicant's bottling
plant from replacement Well B-1, screened in the unconsolidated
deposits overlying the Martinsburg Formation. Well B-1 will replace
Well 1 (also known as W-1). Green-Waltz Water Company, Inc. sold to
Nestl[eacute] Waters North America Inc. (NWNA) its interests in waters
from the spring sources located on the subject property, but remains a
co-owner of the site and facilities. NWNA has assumed the role of
operator of the facilities, and as such, has responsibility for the
operation and maintenance of the withdrawal from Well B-1. The
applicant has not requested a change in the existing allocation of 11.7
mg/30 days. The project is located in the Waltz Creek Watershed in
Washington Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
13. Pennsylvania American Water Company D-99-30 CP 2. An
application for approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply
up to 5.83 million gallons per 30 days (mg/30 days) of water to the
applicant's Glen Alsace public water supply distribution system from
replacement Well GL-2A in the Brunswick Formation, and to retain the
existing withdrawal from all wells at 50 mg/30 days. Proposed
replacement Well No. GL-2A will replace former Well No. GL-2 and is
planned to be used as a regular source to the Glen Alsace distribution
system. The project also includes two existing interconnections from
the Reading Area Water Authority (45 mg/30 days) and the Mount Penn
Water Authority (6 mg/30 days). The project is located in the Antietam
Creek Watershed in Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
14. Lower Perkiomen Valley Regional Sewer Authority D-2001-42 CP-2.
An application to expand the Oaks Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) from 9.5
million gallons per day (mgd) to 14.25 mgd. The plant will continue to
provide advanced secondary treatment via an anoxic/oxic biological
process. The Oaks STP is located at the confluence of Perkiomen Creek
and the Schuylkill River in Upper Providence Township, Montgomery
County, PA. The project will continue to serve portions of Upper
Providence, Perkiomen and Skippack Townships, plus Collegeville and
Trappe Boroughs, all in Montgomery County, PA. STP effluent will
continue to be discharged to the Schuylkill River through the existing
outfall. (This docket was NAR'd as D-2004-20 CP.)
15. Little Washington Wastewater Company D-2001-54-2. An
application to expand a 0.12 million gallon per day (mgd) sewage
treatment plant (STP) to process 0.155 mgd on a maximum monthly basis,
while maintaining tertiary level of treatment. The plant is located
just south of Little Washington-Lyndell Road in East Brandywine
Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Currently, up to 53,100 gallons
per day (gpd) of STP effluent is discharged to Culbertson Run in the
Brandywine Creek Watershed and up to 66,133 gpd to effluent disposal
beds that recharge the ground water table. The additional effluent from
the proposed expansion will be routed back to the proposed Hideaway
Farm subdivision
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for application to new disposal beds. The proposed expansion will
enable the applicant to serve additional residential development in
East Brandywine Township.
16. Pennsylvania-American Water Company D-2003-6 CP-1. An
application for approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply
up to 5.616 mg/30 days of water to the applicant's Country Club of the
Poconos at Big Ridge distribution system from new Wells Nos. 3 and 5 in
the Mahatango Formation, and to increase the existing withdrawal from
all wells to 9.316 mg/30 days. The project is located in the Pond Creek
Watershed in Middle Smithfield Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania in
the drainage area of the Special Protection Waters. (This docket was
NAR'd as D-2003-6 CP.)
17. Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. D-2004-27-1. An application
for an existing industrial wastewater treatment plant to process up to
0.135 million gallons per day and to continue to discharge to the
Lehigh River through an existing outfall. No modification of the
existing plant or increase in flow is proposed. The applicant is a
manufacturing facility located in the Borough of Glendon, Northampton
County, Pennsylvania, in the area covered by the Lower Delaware River
Management Plan.
18. The Glass Group, Inc. D-2004-29-1. An application for approval
of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 30 million gallons
per thirty days (mg/30 days) of water to the applicant's manufacturing
facility from Wells Nos. 13, 14, 15 and 16 in the Cohansey Formation.
The project is located in the Maurice River Watershed in the City of
Millville, Cumberland County, New Jersey.
19. Warren Investments, LLC D-2004-31-1. An application for
approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 6.91
million gallons per 30 days of water for supplemental irrigation of the
applicant's proposed Shetland Crossing Golf Club from new Wells WIA,
WIB, WIC and WID, all in the Lockatong Formation. In conjunction with
the ground water withdrawal, the golf course will utilize supplemental
irrigation from stormwater collected in four on-site storage ponds. The
project is located in the Wickecheoke Creek Watershed in Franklin
Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
20. Bear Creek Management Company, LLC D-2004-35-1. An application
for approval of a ground water and surface water withdrawal project to
supply up to 11 million gallons per 30 days (mg/30 days) of water to
the applicant's ski resort from new Wells Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 and
up to 36 mg/30 days of water to the applicant's snowmaking operations
from 4 ponds and 1 detention basin and to limit the withdrawal from all
sources to 36.6 mg/30 days. The project is located in the Swabia Creek
Watershed in Longswamp Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
21. Borough of Portland D-2003-9 CP. An application to construct a
0.105 million gallon per day (mgd) wastewater treatment plant to
provide tertiary treatment of flow from the proposed Portland
Industrial Park and from local on-lot septic systems located in
Portland Borough, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The plant will be
constructed in the southeast corner of Portland Borough and the project
outfall will discharge to the Delaware River. This location is in DRBC
Water Quality Zone 1D and in the drainage area of the Lower Delaware
Management Plan.
In addition to the public hearing on the dockets listed above, the
Commission's 1 p.m. business meeting will include a public hearing and
possible action on a resolution to amend Resolution No. 2002-33
relating to the operation of Lake Wallenpaupack during drought watch,
drought warning and drought operations; a resolution to amend the
Commission's administrative procedure and fee schedule for renewal of
project approvals under Section 3.8 and Article 10 of the Delaware
River Basin Compact; a resolution to amend the Water Quality
Regulations, Water Code and Comprehensive Plan to designate the Lower
Delaware River as Special Protection Waters; a resolution authorizing
the Executive Director to extend the Commission's contract with Axys
Analytical Laboratories, Inc. for analytical services in connection
with the control of toxic substances in the Delaware Estuary; a
resolution authorizing the executive director to engage a contractor to
assist the Commission staff with tasks to be completed under
Pennsylvania Act 220; and a resolution to adopt the Commission's annual
budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005 and to apportion among
the signatory parties the amounts required for support of the
Commission's annual and operating budgets.
In addition, the meeting will include: adoption of the Minutes of
the October 27, 2004 business meeting; announcements; a report on Basin
hydrologic conditions; a report by the executive director; a report by
the Commission's General Counsel; and an opportunity for public
dialogue. Draft dockets and the resolutions scheduled for public
hearing on January 19, 2005 will be posted on the Commission's Web
site, http://www.drbc.net, where they can be accessed through the
Notice of Commission Meeting and Public Hearing. Additional documents
relating to the dockets and other items may be examined at the
Commission's offices. Please contact William Muszynski at 609-883-9500
ext. 221 with any docket-related questions.
Individuals in need of an accommodation as provided for in the
Americans with Disabilities Act who wish to attend the informational
meeting, conference session or hearings should contact the Commission
Secretary directly at 609-883-9500 ext. 203 or through the
Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS) at 711, to discuss how the
Commission may accommodate your needs.
Dated: December 27, 2004.
Pamela M. Bush,
Commission Secretary.
[FR Doc. 04-28689 Filed 12-30-04; 8:45 am]
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