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DELAWARE RIVER BASIN COMMISSION

 

Commission Meeting and Public Hearing

    Notice is hereby given that the Delaware River Basin Commission 
will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, August 10, 1994. The hearing 
will be part of the Commission's regular business meeting which is open 
to the public and scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m. in Room 620 of the 
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation offices at 50 
Wolf Road, Albany, New York.
    An informal conference among the Commissioners and staff will be 
open for public observation at 9:30 a.m. at the same location and will 
include status reports on the Upper Delaware ice diversion project and 
a proposal to revise Commission water supply charges regulations with 
respect to transfers of certificates of entitlement.
    The subjects of the hearing will be as follows:

Applications for Approval of the Following Projects Pursuant to 
Article 10.3, Article 11 and/or Section 3.8 of the Compact

    1. New Jersey-American Water Company, Inc., Western Division-Haddon 
System D-90-108 CP. An application for approval of a ground water 
withdrawal project to supply up to 30 million gallons (mg)/30 days of 
water to the applicant's distribution system from new Well No. 65, and 
to increase the existing withdrawal limit from all wells in the Camden 
and Haddon Systems of 1,186 mg/30 days to 1,238 mg/30 days. The project 
is located in Cherry Hill Township, Camden County, New Jersey.
    2. Waynesborough Country Club D-92-9. An application for approval 
of a ground water and surface water withdrawal project which supplies 
irrigation water for the applicant's golf course. The applicant 
requires an average of up to 200,000 gallons per day to irrigate the 
golf course. The water is pumped from an on-site pond which is 
supplemented by inflow from two existing on-site wells. The project is 
located just off Route 252 (Darby-Paoli Road) and south of Lancaster 
Pike in Easttown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
    3. PECO Energy Company D-92-67. A project to modify the location of 
the applicant's 3.7 million gallons per day (mgd) discharge (outfall 
011), from its Eddystone Generation Station industrial wastewater 
treatment plant (IWTP), by rerouting the effluent to join either or 
both of the main cooling water discharge tunnels (outfalls 007 and 
008). All proposed discharges are to the Delaware River, and the 
existing IWTP's direct discharge will be discontinued. The project is 
proposed in order to meet a total dissolved solids concentration limit 
of 1000 mg/l in the Eddystone Station discharge. The project is located 
south of the confluence of Crum Creek and the Delaware River in the 
Borough of Eddystone, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
    4. Garden State Water Company - Blackwood District D-93-13 CP. An 
application for approval of a ground water withdrawal project to: (1) 
Supply up to 33.5 mg/30 days of water to the applicant's distribution 
system from new Well Nos. 16 and 17, screened in the Mount Laurel-
Wenonah Formation; (2) increase the withdrawal limit from Well Nos. 3, 
6 and 7, screened in the Potomac-Raritan-Magothy Formation to 132.8 mg/
30 days and; (3) reduce the withdrawal limit from Well Nos. 13, 14 and 
15, screened in the Cohansey-Kirkwood Formation to 58.3 mg/30 days. The 
project is located in Gloucester Township, Camden County, New Jersey.
    5. Perdue Farms Inc. D-93-67. A project to expand the existing 
tertiary level Perdue Farm industrial wastewater treatment plant (IWTP) 
at its Georgetown, Delaware, poultry processing facility. The IWTP will 
be modified and expanded from an average monthly capacity of 1.5 mgd to 
2.0 mgd and will continue to discharge to Savannah Ditch via an outfall 
located to the west of Savannah Road and north of Georgetown, in Sussex 
County, Delaware.
    6. Claude E. Lynch and Sons D-93-81. An application for approval of 
a surface and ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 43.2 mg/
30 days of water to the applicant's agricultural irrigation system from 
new Well Nos. 1 and 2, 16.3 mg/30 days of water from existing Pond No. 
1 and to limit the withdrawal from all sources to 59.5 mg/30 days. The 
project is located in Kent County, Delaware.
    7. Buckingham Township D-93-82 CP. A project to construct a 0.35 
mgd lagoon/spray irrigation sewage treatment plant (STP) to serve the 
Cold Spring Creamery, Route 413, Buckingham Township, Bucks County, 
Pennsylvania. Aerated lagoons will provide secondary treatment and 
disinfection will be by chlorine contact prior to discharge to expanded 
spray irrigation fields. The new treatment lagoons will be located in 
Buckingham Township approximately 1500 feet east of the Plumstead 
Township boundary. The expanded spray irrigation area will be located 
adjacent to the existing spray irrigation fields located just north of 
the intersection at Cold Spring Creamery Road and Route 413.
    8. South Jersey Port Corporation D-94-16. A stream encroachment 
project to increase the docking capability at the Beckett Street 
Terminal on the Delaware River in the City of Camden, Camden County, 
New Jersey. The applicant proposes to fill two acres of open water 
inshore of Berth No. 4 and use the filled space for a cargo staging 
area.
    9. Warwick Township Water and Sewer Authority D-94-19 CP. An 
application for the consolidation and renewal of prior approvals of 
ground water withdrawal projects to supply up to 21.97 mg/30 days of 
water to the applicant's distribution system from existing Well Nos. 1, 
2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8, and to retain the existing withdrawal limit from 
all wells of 21.97 mg/30 days. The project is located in Warwick 
Township, Bucks County, in the Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground Water 
Protected Area.
    10. Township of Lower Municipal Utilities Authority D-94-21 CP. An 
application for approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply 
up to 43 mg/30 days of water to the applicant's distribution system 
from recently acquired existing Well Nos. AP-1 and AP-2, and to limit 
the withdrawal from all wells to 93 mg/30 days. The project is located 
in Lower Township, Cape May County, New Jersey.
    11. Hatfield Quality Meats, Inc. D-94-34. An application for 
approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 5.4 mg/30 
days of water to the applicant's processing facility from new Well No. 
10, and to increase the existing withdrawal limit of 9.5 mg/30 days 
from all wells to 14.9 mg/30 days. The project is located in Hatfield 
Township, Montgomery County, in the Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground 
Water Protected Area.
    Documents relating to these items may be examined at the 
Commission's offices. Preliminary dockets are available in single 
copies upon request. Please contact George C. Elias concerning docket-
related questions. Persons wishing to testify at this hearing are 
requested to register with the Secretary prior to the hearing.

    Dated: July 26, 1994.
Susan M. Weisman,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-18947 Filed 8-3-94; 8:45 am]
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