[Federal Register: December 2, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 232)]
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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, December 10, 2008. The hearing will be part of the
Commission's regular business meeting. The conference session and
business meeting both are open to the public and will be held at the
Commission's office building, located at 25 State Police Drive, West
Trenton, New Jersey.
The conference among the commissioners and staff will begin at
10:30 a.m. Topics of discussion will include: A presentation on
Philadelphia water conservation and stormwater management approaches by
a representative from the Philadelphia Water Department; a presentation
by University of Pennsylvania students on responses to climate change
in the Delaware Basin; a status report by a representative of the
Commission and the parties to the 1954 Supreme Court Decree in New
Jersey v. New York, 347 U.S. 995, 74 S.Ct. 842, concerning the Flexible
Flow Management Program (FFMP); and a presentation on the New York City
Delaware system tunnel closure by a representative from the New York
City Department of Environmental Protection. The Commission will not
take action on December 10 to adopt amendments to the DRBC Water Code
to implement the FFMP.
The subjects of the public hearing to be held during the 1:30 p.m.
business meeting include the dockets listed below:
1. Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. D-81-61 CP-4. An application for
approval of a ground water withdrawal project to renew the allocation
included in Docket D-81-61 CP-3 and consolidate all other docket
approvals for the Fawn Lakes, Woodloch Springs and Masthope water
systems, retaining the existing withdrawal from all wells of 18.38
million gallons per thirty days (mg/30 days). Docket D-81-61 CP-4 will
consolidate allocations approved in dockets D-81-61 CP-3, D-87-96
Renewal, and D-89-57 CP Renewal. The projects are located in the
Catskill Formation in the Westcolang Creek Watershed in Lackawaxen
Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania, within the drainage area to the
section of the non-tidal Delaware River known as the Upper Delaware,
which is designated as Special Protection Waters.
2. Hercules, Inc. D-87-43-3. An application to replace the
withdrawal of water from Wells PW-4 and PW-10 in the applicant's ground
water remediation system because of diminished yield and
inefficiencies. New Wells PW-4R and PW-10R have been drilled as
replacements. The applicant requests that the total approved withdrawal
for all the wells in the system remain at 18 mg/30 days of water. The
existing and replacement wells are located in the Magothy/Raritan and
Cape May Aquifers in the Delaware Watershed in Greenwich Township,
Gloucester County, New Jersey.
3. Lehigh County Authority D-2001-20 CP-4. An application to
replace the withdrawal of water from Well No. WL-12 in the applicant's
water supply system because it has become an unreliable source of
supply. The applicant requests that the withdrawal from replacement
Well No. WL-12R be limited to 30.240 mg/30 days of water, and that the
total withdrawal from all wells in the system remain limited to 256.24
mg/30 days. The project is located in the Allentown Formation in the
Little Lehigh Creek Watershed in Lower Macungie Township, Lehigh
County, Pennsylvania. The site is located within the drainage area to
the section of the non-tidal Delaware River known as the Lower
Delaware, which is designated as Special Protection Waters.
4. Unimin Corporation D-2007-14-2. An application for renewal of
approval to discharge up to 2.275 mgd through existing Outfall 001A to
Dividing Creek from a hydraulic dredging operation. The applicant also
discharges to an unnamed tributary to Dividing Creek, through Outfall
002A during large storm events. The facility is located in the Dividing
Creek Watershed in Commercial and Downe townships, Cumberland County,
New Jersey.
5. Borough of Bally D-78-19 CP-2. An application for approval of a
ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 9.70 mg/30 days of
water to the applicant's public water supply system from new Well No. 4
and to increase the existing withdrawal from all wells from 9.70 mg/30
days to 19.42 mg/30 days. The increased allocation is requested in
order to meet projected increases in service area demand. Well No. 4
will replace existing Well No. 3 as a water supply well because Well
No. 3 has become an unreliable source due to local groundwater
contamination. The applicant requests that the existing allocation for
Well No. 3 (9.70 mg/30 days) be continued in conjunction with approval
of the requested increase from Well No. 4 (9.70 mg/30) in order to
accommodate continuing remediation of the contaminated portion of the
aquifer. The water allocated to Well No. 3 will not be used in the
public water system. The project is located in the Leithsville
Formation in the Perkiomen Creek Watershed in Bally Borough and
Washington Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
6. Borough of Hopatcong D-92-85 CP-3. An application for approval
of a ground water withdrawal project to increase the withdrawal from
18.91 mg/30 days to 20.8 mg/30 days of water to the applicant's public
water supply distribution system from existing Wells Nos. 1, 2, 3, 3A,
4, 5, 8, 12, Squire, River Styx and new Wells Nos. 14, 15, 16 and 17 in
the Precambrian Crystalline Rock Formation. The project is located in
the Musconetcong River Watershed in Hopatcong Borough, Sussex County,
New Jersey.
7. New Jersey American Water Company D-93-28 CP-3. An application
for approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 7.7
mg/30 days of water to the applicant's public water supply distribution
system from Well Nos. 2 and 3 and to temporarily increase the
withdrawal from all wells from 4.7 mg/30 days to 7.7 mg/30 days. The
increased allocation is requested in order to meet projected
residential demand until an interconnection is completed. The project
is located in the Potomac Formation in the Raccoon Creek Watershed in
Logan Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey.
8. Sinking Spring Borough Municipal Authority D-94-31 CP-2. An
application for approval of the expansion of the existing wastewater
treatment plant (WWTP) of the Sinking Spring Borough Municipal
Authority. The application includes a proposed increase in the
Authority's allowable discharge from 1.00 million gallons per day (mgd)
to 1.25 mgd and related construction to expand the plant's
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capacity. The plant will continue to discharge to Cacoosing Creek, a
tributary of the Tulpehocken Creek. The facility is located in Spring
Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
9. New Jersey American Water D-95-46 CP-2. An application for
approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 255 mg/30
days of water to the applicant's combined public water supply systems.
The withdrawal reflects the interconnection of the Mansfield (Docket
No. D-95-46 CP-2) and Mount Holly (Docket No. D-94-8 CP) water supply
systems. The allocation of water includes withdrawals from existing
Well Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 and new Well Nos. 5, 7, and 8 of the Mansfield
water supply system and Well Nos. 3R, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of the Mount Holly
water supply system. The allocation increases the existing withdrawal
from the Mansfield system from 88.7 mg/30 days to 160 mg/30 days. The
allocation of groundwater withdrawal from the Mount Holly system will
remain at 108.5 mg/30 days. The allocation increases the existing
combined withdrawal from all wells in both systems from 184 mg/30 days
to 255 mg/30 days. The increased allocation is requested in order to
meet projected increases in service area demand. The project is located
in the Potomac-Raritan-Magothy Aquifers in the Assicunk Creek, Crafts
Creek, and North Branch Rancocas Creek Watersheds in Mount Holly,
Westampton, and Mansfield Townships, Burlington County, New Jersey.
10. Sanofi Pasteur, Inc. D-99-71-3. An application for approval of
temporary phased increases in the allowable discharge to Swiftwater
Creek from Sanofi's industrial wastewater treatment plant (IWTP).
Increases from 0.55 mgd to 0.70 mgd and 0.90 mgd are proposed pending
construction of a regional interceptor and a regional wastewater
treatment plant (WWTP) capable of accepting flows from the Sanofi
facility in excess of 0.55 mgd. The interceptor and WWTP projects are
expected to be completed in 2010. The applicant also seeks approval for
construction to expand its processes and for an increase in its TDS
effluent limits similar to the increase granted to the existing
facility. Docket No. D-99-71-2 approved the current stream discharge of
0.55 mgd and expansion of the IWTP to 0.95 mgd. The project is located
in the Brodhead Creek Watershed in Pocono Township, Monroe County,
Pennsylvania. The Sanofi IWTP currently utilizes land application and
will continue to do so in conjunction with its Outfall 001 discharging
to Swiftwater Creek. Swiftwater Creek is a tributary of Paradise Creek,
which is a tributary of Brodhead Creek, which flows into the Delaware
River at River Mile 213.0-11.4-4.4-3.5.
11. Broad Acres, Inc. D-2000-31. A modified application for the
renewal of a ground water withdrawal project and to increase the
existing allocation from 135.7 mg/30 days to 259 mg/30 days to supply
the docket holder's agricultural irrigation project from five existing
wells and six new wells. The project is located in the Columbia,
Cheswold and Federalsburg Formations in the Leipsic River Watershed in
the City of Dover, Kent County, Delaware. A Notice of Application
Received (NAR) for this project was previously published on June 9,
2000.
12. City of Allentown D-2000-45 CP. An application to increase the
applicant's surface withdrawal allocation of 4 mgd to 5 mgd from
Crystal Springs, a tributary of the Little Lehigh River; and to reduce
the docket holder's total allocation from all sources from 39 mgd to 20
mgd. The docket holder utilizes four sources for public water supply;
Crystal Springs, Schantz Spring, the Little Lehigh River and the Lehigh
River. The docket holder will continue to provide water to the City of
Allentown, the Whitehall Township Authority, and portions of Hanover,
Salisbury, and South Whitehall Townships, all in Lehigh County,
Pennsylvania.
13. Audubon Water Company D-2004-4 CP-2. An application for the
renewal of a ground water withdrawal project to continue withdrawal of
49.79 mg/30 days to supply the applicant's public water supply
distribution system from 17 existing wells and new replacement Well
AWC-15 in the Lockatong Formation. The project is located in the
Perkiomen Creek Watershed in Lower Providence Township, Montgomery
County, Pennsylvania, within the Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground Water
Protected Area. The Commission staff recommended a reduction in the
docket holder's allocation from 49.79 mg/30 days to 45.4 mg/30 days
based on the docket holder's 10-year projected total maximum use.
14. Tidewater Utilities, Inc. D-2004-24-CP-2. An application for
approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 88.977
mg/30 days of water to the applicant's water supply system from new and
existing wells nos. C-01, C-02, RG-01, RG-02, GG-02, GG-03, JL-01, JL-
02, JL-03, and WF-01, and to increase the withdrawal from all wells
from 18.5055 mg/30 days to 88.977 mg/30 days. Tidewater Utilities, Inc.
plans to combine the Camden Park, Generals Green, Jonathan's Landing,
and Woodfield withdrawal wells under a single groundwater withdrawal
docket. The increased allocation is requested to include all current
withdrawals under a single docket and to meet projected increases in
service area demand. With the exception of the Woodfield Well WF-01,
the project wells are located in the Cheswold Aquifer in the St. Jones
River Watershed in the Towns of Camden, Dover, and Magnolia, Kent
County, Delaware. The Woodfield well is located in the Federalsburg
Aquifer in the Town of Woodside, Kent County, Delaware.
15. Borough of Bryn Athyn D-2008-13 CP-2. An application for the
approval of a rerate of the existing Borough of Bryn Athyn Academy of
the New Church WWTP. The application is for an increase in the WWTP's
hydraulic design capacity from 0.065 mgd to 0.080 mgd. The WWTP's
existing annual average effluent limitations of 0.065 mgd will remain
unchanged. The WWTP will continue to discharge to an unnamed tributary
of Huntingdon Valley Creek, itself a tributary of Pennypack Creek. The
facility is located in Bryn Athyn Borough, Montgomery County,
Pennsylvania.
16. Shawnee Country Club D-2008-1-1. An application for approval of
a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 5.4308 mg/30 days of
water to the applicant's golf course irrigation system from new Wells
Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. The project is located in the Columbia Formation in
the Mispillion River Watershed in the Town of Milford, Kent County,
Delaware.
17. Rake Pond Farm LLC D-2008-14 CP-1. A combined surface water and
ground water withdrawal project to supply a maximum of 11 mg/30 days of
water to the applicant's irrigation of approximately 20 acres of
cranberries. The water withdrawal is utilized for crop irrigation,
frost protection and harvest of cranberry bogs. The applicant's man-
made ponds are recharged by ground water withdrawn from the Kirkwood
Cohansey Aquifer in the Rancocas Creek Watershed in Southampton
Borough, Burlington County, New Jersey.
18. Penn Terminal, Inc. D-2008-19-1. An application for approval of
the construction of a 450-foot extension of the existing wharf. The
proposed construction would consist of a line of filled cellular
cofferdam bulkheads that would be driven to sit atop bedrock at 40 feet
below mean low water (MLW) via dead weight cellular construction. Each
cofferdam cell would be 48 feet wide. Approximately 10,400 cubic yards
of dry fill material would be placed
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inside the cofferdam cells, 4,800 cubic yards of which would be below
MLW. The project is located in the Borough of Eddystone, Delaware
County, Pennsylvania.
19. FPL Energy Marcus Hook, L.P. D-2008-21-1. An application for
approval to construct a new 4.32 mgd outfall for the purpose of
redirecting processed wastewater. The discharge will consist of cooling
tower blowdown and low volume waste streams directed to a newly
constructed submerged outfall located along Sunoco's off-loading pier.
The project will discharge to Zone 4 of the Delaware River. The
facility is located in Marcus Hook Borough, Delaware County,
Pennsylvania.
20. Steven Parisi/Falling Creek Investment LLC D-2008-22-1. An
application for approval of the construction of The Woods WWTP, a
31,250 gpd facility that is proposed to discharge to a holding pond for
spray irrigation. The project is located within the drainage area of
the section of the non-tidal Delaware River known as the Lower
Delaware, which is designated as Special Protection Waters. The project
is located in the Pohopoco Creek Watershed, in Polk Township, Monroe
County, Pennsylvania.
21. London Grove Township Municipal Authority D-2008-33 CP-1. An
application for the approval of the proposed London Grove Township
Municipal Authority Conard Pyle WWTP and effluent disposal system.
Treated sewage effluent from the Conard Pyle WWTP will be piped through
proposed force mains to three (3) proposed offsite spray irrigation
facilities at separate locations throughout London Grove Township. The
hydraulic capacity of the proposed WWTP and disposal system is 0.607
mgd. The WWTP is to be located on the east side of Rosehill Road,
southeast of its intersection with State Road, in London Grove
Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The project is located in the
Brandywine-Christina Watershed.
22. Horsham Water & Sewer Authority D-1997-16 CP-2. Approval is
requested for minor corrections to the pump capacity table in Section
A.4.b. of Docket D-1997-16 CP-2, issued to HWSA on July 16, 2008. The
table in the docket failed to reflect very small changes to the pump
capacities that occurred between 1997, the date of approval of the
previous HWSA docket, and July, 2008. A revised docket containing the
corrected table is requested. The project wells are located in the
Pennypack Creek, Park Creek and Little Neshaminy Creek Watersheds in
the Stockton Formation.
The business meeting also will include adoption of the Minutes of
the Commission's July 16 and September 24, 2008 business meetings;
announcements of upcoming advisory committee meetings and other events;
a report on hydrologic conditions in the basin; a report by the
Executive Director; and a report by the Commission's General Counsel.
Additional business meeting items will include the following: a public
hearing and consideration by the Commission of a resolution to
administratively continue Docket No. D-69-210 CP-12 for the Exelon
Limerick Generating Station until December 31, 2009 or completion of
the public process on Exelon's pending application for a docket renewal
with modifications, whichever occurs first; consideration by the
Commission of a resolution adopting proposed amendments to the Water
Code and Comprehensive Plan to implement water auditing to identify and
control water loss; a hearing and consideration by the Commission of a
resolution to approve the DRBC 2009-2014 Water Resources Program; and a
hearing followed by consideration of a resolution authorizing the
Executive Director to enter into an agreement for a sediment flux study
of mercury in Water Quality Zone 5 upon securing funds for such a
study. The Commission will hold a public hearing but will not consider
for adoption on December 10 a resolution approving the DRBC fiscal year
2010 expense and capital budgets. An opportunity for public dialogue
will be provided at the end of the meeting.
Draft dockets scheduled for public hearing on December 10, 2008
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: November 25, 2008.
Pamela M. Bush,
Commission Secretary.
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