[Federal Register: April 25, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 79)]
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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, May 10, 2006. 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 Commission's
office building, located at 25 State Police Drive in West Trenton, New
Jersey.
The conference among the commissioners and staff will begin at
10:15 a.m. Topics of discussion will include presentations by guest
speakers on the Philadelphia Tidal Delaware Initiative; proposed
adoption of a records retention schedule developed with the assistance
of the New Jersey Division of Archives and Records Management; a
progress report on PCB TMDL development, including a report on meetings
of the Commission's Toxics Advisory Committee and PCB Expert Panel in
March of 2006; a report on a joint meeting of the DRBC Water Quality
and Water Management Advisory committees to discuss updating the
memoranda of agreement between DRBC and its member states governing
project review in accordance with Section 3.8 of the Delaware River
Basin Compact; and a presentation on a stormwater retrofit plan for the
site of the Commission's office building.
The subjects of the public hearing to be held during the 1:30 p.m.
business meeting include the dockets listed below:
1. Maidencreek Township Authority D-91-58 CP-3. An application for
approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 5.7
million gallons per thirty days (mg/30 days) of water to the
applicant's public water supply distribution system from new Well No. 5
in the Allentown Formation, and to retain the existing withdrawal from
all wells of 22.7 mg/30 days. Well No. 5 is proposed as a redundant
source to provide flexibility and reliability in operation of the
applicant's public water supply distribution system. The project is
located in the Maiden Creek Watershed in Maidencreek Township, Berks
County, Pennsylvania.
2. Old York Country Club D-95-3-2. An application for the renewal
of a ground and surface water withdrawal project to continue withdrawal
of up to 8 mg/30 days to supply the applicant's golf course irrigation
system and potable water supply from existing Wells Nos. 1 and 2 in the
Magothy Formation and two man-made storage reservoirs fed by a wet well
and stormwater. The project is located in the Blacks Creek Watershed in
Chesterfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey.
3. Bridgeport Disposal, LLC D-72-49-2. An application for approval
of a ground water and surface water withdrawal project to supply up to
0.05 mg/30 days of water from a surface water intake on Raccoon Creek,
up to 17.86 mg/30 days from 21 remediation wells in the Raritan-Magothy
Formation and up to 17.91 mg/30 days from both combined sources. The
requested allocation represents a decrease from the existing allocation
of 1.44 mg/30 days for the surface water withdrawal and an increase
from the existing allocation of 4.5 mg/30 days for the ground water
withdrawal. The project is located in the Raccoon Creek Watershed in
Logan Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey.
4. Borough of Boyertown D-73-199 CP-2. An application to modify the
outfall location for the docket holder's existing wastewater treatment
plant (WWTP). The outfall was moved from unnamed tributary 01337 (UNT)
to Swamp Creek. The docket holder relocated the outfall in order to
avert toxics monitoring on the impaired UNT. The construction of the
relocated outfall was completed in November 2000. The WWTP discharges
approximately 750,000 gpd to Swamp Creek, a tributary of Perkiomen
Creek, which is a tributary to the Schuylkill River. The facility is
located in Douglass Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
5. Fleetwood Borough Authority D-87-54 CP-2. An application to
expand a 0.5 mgd WWTP to treat an average flow of 0.7 mgd, while
continuing to provide secondary treatment. The WWTP is located off
Walnuttown Road in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The
plant currently serves the predominantly residential area of Fleetwood
Borough only. However, part of the proposed additional capacity is
needed to serve a portion of Richmond Township. The WWTP will continue
to discharge to Willow Creek, a tributary of Maiden Creek in the
Schuylkill River Watershed.
6. Giorgio Foods, Inc. D-88-43-2. An application to modify the
docket holder's existing food processing industrial wastewater
treatment plant (IWTP) by the addition of a forced draft cooling tower
along with temperature controller/recorders, cooling tower pumps and
recirculation pumps. The modifications are being undertaken to meet new
effluent temperature requirements. The IWTP discharges approximately
500,000 gpd to Willow Creek, a tributary of Maiden Creek, which is a
tributary to the Schuylkill River. The facility is located in
Maidencreek Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
7. Gloucester County Utilities Authority D-90-74 CP-2. An
application for approval of a WWTP rerate project from 24.1 mgd to 27
mgd. The WWTP effluent will be discharged to the Delaware River in
Water Quality Zone 4. The project is located in West Deptford Township,
Gloucester County, New Jersey. The WWTP will continue to serve Clayton
Borough, Deptford Township, Glassboro Borough, Mantua Township, Monroe
Township, National Park Borough, Paulsboro Borough, Pitman Borough,
Washington Township, Wenonah Borough, West Deptford Township, Westville
Borough, Woodbury City and Woodbury Heights Borough, all in Gloucester
County.
8. Brodhead Creek Regional Authority D-91-1 CP-2. An application
for the renewal of a ground and surface water withdrawal project to add
new Well No. 3 in the Buttermilk Falls Formation to the distribution
system with an allocation not to exceed 28.94 mg/30 days and to limit
the total withdrawal from new Well No. 3 and existing Wells PW-1 and
PW-2 in the Marrellus Formation to 114.94 mg/30 days and to limit the
existing surface water intakes in the Brodhead Creek and the Stokes
Mill Spring to 126 mg/30 days to supply the applicant's public supply
distribution system. The project is located in the Brodhead Creek
Watershed in Stroud Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania.
9. Bernville Corp. D-92-27-2. An application for the renewal of a
ground water withdrawal project and for an increase in allocation from
4.5 mg/30 days to 8.3 mg/30 days to supply the applicant's golf course
from an existing intake in the Tulpehocken Creek. The project is
located in the Tulpehocken Creek Watershed in Jefferson Township, North
Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
10. The Premcor Refining Group, Inc. D-93-4-4. An application for
the renewal of a ground water withdrawal project to increase withdrawal
from 180 mg/30 days to 192.96 mg/30 days to supply the applicant's
refinery and electric generating station from existing Wells Nos. P-1A,
P-3A, P-4A, P-5B, P-6A, P-9A, P-10A, R-15 and P-16A in the Upper,
Middle and Lower Potomac formations and to increase the allocation for
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from the existing allocation of 13,560 mg/30 days to 13,570.6 mg/30
days, and to incorporate 2 existing pre-Compact surface water
withdrawals in the Red Lion Creek and Dragon Run with allocations of
38.9 mg/30 days and 48.62 mg/30 days, respectively. The project is
located in the C&D Canal East, Dragon Run Creek and Red Lion Creek
watersheds in Delaware City, New Castle County, Delaware.
11. New Castle County Department of Special Services D-93-6 CP-2.
An application to upgrade and expand a 1.7 mgd WWTP to treat 2.5 mgd
via chemical addition and Sequential Batch Reactor processes. The
project is located off Old Corbit Road just east of the Town of Odessa
along the tidal Appoquinimink River in DRBC Water Quality Zone 5 and
will continue to serve the Middletown-Odessa-Townsend area of southern
New Castle County, Delaware. The WWTP will continue to discharge a
portion of its effluent to a tributary of the Appoquinimink River and
up to 1.08 mgd will continue to be discharged to adjacent spray
application fields. The Appoquinimink River is a tributary of the
Delaware River and is the subject of a U.S. EPA and Delaware DNREC
Total Maximum Daily Load study. The proposed upgrade of the WWTP is
needed to produce a higher quality effluent in order to meet more
stringent NPDES permit limits.
12. Logan Township Municipal Utilities Authority D-95-7 CP-2. An
application to expand a 2 million gallon per day (mgd) sewage treatment
plant (STP) to process 2.75 mgd, while continuing to provide secondary
level treatment. The project is located in Logan Township, Gloucester
County, New Jersey approximately 200 feet west of High Hills Road and
just south of the railroad right-of-way through Maple Swamp. Due to
high quality treatment processes, the applicant proposes to meet
stringent NPDES permit limits regarding effluent loadings and
concentrations. The project effluent will continue to discharge to the
Delaware River in Water Quality Zone 4 via an existing outfall, which
is shared with Ferro Corporation, formerly owned by Monsanto Chemical
Company.
13. Richland Township Water Authority D-96-44 CP-2. An application
for approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 2.25
mg/30 days of water to the applicant's public water supply distribution
system from Wells Nos. 2, 3 and 4, recently purchased from Melody Lakes
Properties, and to increase the total combined withdrawal from these
wells and the existing Richland Township Water Authority wells to 31.55
mg/30 days. While this represents an increase in allocation to the
Richland Township Water Authority, it does not represent an increase in
withdrawals from the watershed since both the Melody Lakes project
allocation and the existing Richland Township Water Authority
allocation are located in the Tohickon Creek Watershed. The project is
located in the Brunswick Formation in Richland Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania and is located in the Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground
Water Protected Area.
14. Sanofi Pasteur, Inc. D-99-71-2. An application to expand the
applicant's existing IWTP from 0.35 mgd to 0.95 mgd and to increase the
discharge to Swiftwater Creek from 0.35 mgd to 0.55 mgd. Beginning in
2007, wastewater will be treated via Sanofi Pasteur's (Sanofi's)
existing IWTP, rerated to process 0.45 mgd, and disposed through a
combination of landscape irrigation (up to 0.045 mgd), discharge to
Swiftwater Creek (0.45 mgd) and wastewater reuse. Beginning in 2008,
wastewater will be treated via Sanofi's upgraded IWTP and disposed
through a combination of land application (up to 0.245 mgd), discharge
to Swiftwater Creek (up to 0.55 mgd), and wastewater reuse. Beginning
in 2010, wastewater will be treated via Sanofi's upgraded IWTP and
disposed through a combination of land application (up to 0.245 mgd),
discharge to Swiftwater Creek (up to 0.55 mgd), use of the proposed
Pocono Township Wastewater Treatment Plant (up to 0.35 mgd), and
wastewater reuse. The application is for a discharge of 0.55 mgd to
Swiftwater Creek, a tributary to the Brodhead Creek. The facility is
located in Pocono Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania.
15. Artesian Water Company, Inc. D-2003-22 CP-2. An application for
approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 4.32 mg/
30 days of water to the applicant's public water supply distribution
system from replacement Well No. 1R in the Upper Mt. Laurel Formation
in the Bayview Wellfield and to retain the existing withdrawal of 150
mg/30 days from the applicant's nine (9) wellfields supplying the
Southern New Castle County distribution system. The project is located
in the C&D Canal East Watershed in New Castle County, Delaware.
16. Alcoa Extrusions, Inc. D-2005-1-2. An application to increase
the average and maximum discharge concentration of total dissolved
solids (TDS) from 1,000 milligrams per liter (mg/l) to 2,000 mg/l and
4,000 milligrams per liter, respectively. The discharge will be made
via an existing outfall to the West Branch Schuylkill River. In support
of the requested modification, the docket holder has submitted an
analysis concluding that the increased solids concentrations will cause
no adverse effect on the downstream aquatic community, nor will they
threaten potable water supply intakes located over 65 river miles
downstream of the confluence of the West Branch Schuylkill River with
the main stem Schuylkill River. No expansion of the treatment facility
is proposed. The proposed modifications are attributable to
installation of a new reverse osmosis treatment system that will reduce
water consumption at the facility but will generate a concentrated
waste stream during operation. The treatment facility is located in
Cressona Borough, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
17. Pierson-Gaskill Golf Properties, Inc. D-2000-49. An application
for approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 4.24
mg/30 days of water to the applicant's Town & Country Golf Links golf
course irrigation system from new Wells Nos. 1 and 2 in the Mt. Laurel/
Wenonah Aquifer and up to 8 mg/30 days from one intake in an irrigation
pond and to limit the withdrawal from all sources to 8 mg/30 days. The
project is located in Pilesgrove Township, Salem County, New Jersey.
18. New Egypt Speedway D-2006-1-1. An application for approval of a
ground and surface water withdrawal and importation project to supply
less than 3.1 mg/30 days of water to the applicant's automobile racing
track from the Pond Well, Office Well and Pond Intake. The Pond Well
and Pond Intake are located in the Atlantic Basin. The Office Well is
located in the Mt. Laurel-Wenonah Formation in the Crosswicks Creek
Watershed in Plumsted Township, Ocean County, New Jersey.
19. Schering Corporation D-2006-2-1. An application for approval of
a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 4.0 mg/30 days of
water to the applicant's pharmaceutical research facility from existing
Wells Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 and new Wells Nos. 9, 10, 11 and 12.
The project is located in the Kittatinny Aquifer in the Paulins Kill
River Watershed in Lafayette Township, Sussex County, New Jersey.
20. Surfside Products, LLC D-2006-3-1. An application for approval
of an existing 50,000 gallon per day (gpd) discharge of treated
industrial wastewater generated by clam processing. The IWTP discharges
approximately 50,000 gpd to the
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Maurice River, tributary to Delaware Bay. The facility is located in
Commercial Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey.
21. Sussex County Municipal Utilities Authority D-2006-6 CP-1. An
application for the approval of an existing 50,000 gallons per day
(gpd) discharge from the Hampton Commons wastewater treatment facility.
The wastewater treatment facility discharges to Marsh's Farm Creek, a
tributary to the Paulins Kill River. The facility is located in Hampton
Township, Sussex County, New Jersey.
In addition to the public hearing on the dockets listed above, the
Commission's 1:30 p.m. business meeting will include a public hearing
on a proposed resolution establishing a Pollutant Minimization Plan
Peer Review Advisory Committee; a resolution establishing a DRBC
Finance Advisory Committee to be composed of representatives of each of
the signatory parties for the purpose of developing recommendations for
maintaining the financial stability of the Commission; a resolution
authorizing the Executive Director to contract for fish tissue
analysis; a resolution for the minutes authorizing the Executive
Director to enter into a professional services contract for evaluation
of the mechanical and electrical systems of the Commission's office
building in order to identify and evaluate opportunities for improving
efficiency and reducing cost; a resolution for the minutes amending the
Administrative Manual: Bylaws, Management and Personnel to provide for
greater flexibility in establishing vacation credits awarded to new
hires for senior management positions; and a resolution providing for
election of the Commission Chair, Vice Chair and Second Vice Chair for
the year 2006-2007, commencing July 1, 2006.
The meeting will also include: adoption of the Minutes of the March
1, 2006 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 May
10, 2006 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, extension
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 can accommodate your needs.
Dated: April 18, 2006.
Pamela M. Bush,
Commission Secretary.
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