[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 44 (Wednesday, March 5, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11890-11892]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-4217]
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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 a public hearing on Wednesday, March 12, 2008. The hearing
will be part of the Commission's regular business meeting. The business
meeting is 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. No morning conference session is scheduled for this meeting.
Please note that commission action on the Proposed Amendments to
the Water Quality Regulations, Water Code and Comprehensive Plan to
Classify the Lower Delaware River as Special Protection Waters (SPW)
will not take place at this meeting. The earliest commission meeting
date when action could be taken is May 14, 2008.
The subjects of the public hearing to be held during the 1:30 p.m.
business meeting include the dockets listed below:
1. Freeland Borough Municipal Authority D-94-63 CP-2. An
application for the renewal of a ground water withdrawal project to
continue withdrawal of 17.2 million gallons per thirty days (mg/30
days) to supply the applicant's public water supply distribution system
from existing Wells Nos. 9, 12 and 14 in the Buck Mountain Mauch Chunk
Formation. The project is located in the Pond Creek Watershed in
Freeland Borough, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, 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.
2. Township of Roxbury D-96-17 CP-2. An application for the renewal
of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 19.8 mg/30 days
from existing Wells Nos. 2, 4, 9 and 12. The project is located in the
Stratified Drifts Aquifer in the Musconetcong River Watershed in
Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey, within the drainage area
to the section of the non-
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tidal Delaware River known as the Lower Delaware, which is designated
as Special Protection Waters.
3. Smithfield Beef Group (MOPAC) D-96-21-3. An application for
approval of an upgrade of the existing 0.75 million gallon per day
(mgd) industrial wastewater treatment plant (IWTP) in accordance with a
Consent Order and Agreement issued by PADEP. The upgrade includes a new
anaerobic lagoon, a new tertiary filtration system and a new
ultraviolet light (UV) disinfection system. The IWTP will continue to
discharge to the Skippack Creek. The IWTP is located in Franconia
Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
4. Nestl[eacute] Waters North America, Inc. D-98-27-3. An
application for the renewal of a spring water withdrawal project to
continue withdrawal of 9 mg/30 days to supply the applicant's bottled
water operations from existing Hoffman Springs Nos. 1, 2 and 3 to
supply up to 1.95 mg/30 days from the new Mattos Catchment No. 1 to
supplement flow in Ontelaunee Creek. The project is located in the
Ontelaunee Creek Watershed in Lynn Township, Lehigh County,
Pennsylvania.
5. Fifer Orchards, Inc. D-2002-20-2. A combined ground and surface
water withdrawal project to continue to supply a maximum of 543 mg/30
days of water to the applicant's irrigation of approximately 2,285
acres of fruit and vegetables through two new wells, nine existing
wells and nine existing intakes. The wells are located in the Columbia
Formation in the St. Jones River Watershed in the City of Wyoming, Kent
County, Delaware. Surface water will be withdrawn from a series of on-
site ponds in the St. Jones River Watershed.
6. Ambler Borough D-75-16 CP-2. An application for approval of a
rerate of the Ambler Borough wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) to 8.0
mgd as a maximum monthly value. The WWTP's existing 6.5 mgd annual
average flow will remain unchanged. The WWTP will continue to discharge
to the Wissahickon Creek, a tributary to the Schuylkill River. The
facility is located in Ambler Borough, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
7. The Premcor Refining Group, Inc. D-93-4-6. An application to
replace the withdrawal of water from Wells Nos. P-3A and P-4A in the
applicant's water supply system that have become unreliable sources of
supply and to increase the applicant's surface water withdrawal from
the Delaware River and Red Lion Creek. Premcor requests that its
combined withdrawal from replacement Wells Nos. P-3B and P-4B and seven
existing wells remain limited to 180 mg/30 days; that its withdrawal
from the Delaware River intake remain at 13,560 mg/30 days; that the
docket authorize withdrawals of 38.9 mg/30 days from the Red Lion Creek
intake and up to 56.2 mg/30 days from the Dragon Run intake, and that
Premcor's combined withdrawal from all sources be limited to 13,655.1
mg/30 days. The proposed allocation represents no increase in
groundwater withdrawals, no increase from the Delaware River intake and
the inclusion in a DRBC docket of previously un-docketed pre-Compact
DNREC allocations from Dragon Run and Red Lion Creek. The project is
located in the Potomac Formation in the C&D Canal East, Dragon Run
Creek, Red Lion Creek and Delaware River watersheds in Delaware City,
New Castle County, Delaware.
8. Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. D-97-3-2. An application to use Wells
Nos. 1 and 2 at the former Simpson Paper Company to serve the
applicant's potable water supply system. The applicant seeks a maximum
withdrawal of 42 mg/30 days from Wells Nos. 1 and 2, representing no
change from the maximum combined withdrawal from the wells. The project
is located in the Conestoga Formation in the Schuylkill River Watershed
in Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and is located
in the Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground Water Protected Area.
9. Town of Felton D-99-26 CP-2. An application for the renewal of a
ground water withdrawal project and to decrease the maximum withdrawal
from 5.7 mg/30 days to 5.328 mg/30 days to supply the applicant's
public water supply distribution from existing Wells Nos. 2, 3 and 4 in
the Frederica and Piney Point formations. The project is located in the
Fan Branch Watershed in the Town of Felton, Kent County, Delaware.
10. Upper Hanover Authority D-2001-61 CP-2. An application for
approval of a WWTP expansion project that will increase treatment
capacity from 0.15 mgd to 0.40 mgd, while maintaining existing effluent
quality via the addition of sequencing batch reactor and tertiary
filtration processes. The existing WWTP has reached its design capacity
and the expansion project is needed to serve new development in Upper
Hanover Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Following
ultraviolet light disinfection, the WWTP effluent will be discharged to
Macoby Creek, a tributary of Perkiomen Creek, within the Schuylkill
River Watershed. The project is located in the Southeastern
Pennsylvania Ground Water Protected Area.
11. Mountain Hill Cottages D-2005-2-1. An application to upgrade
the septic system that serves the Mountain Hill Cottages development
located off Cold Spring Road approximately 2,000 feet north of its
intersection with Cantrell Road in the Town of Thompson, Sullivan
County, New York. An additional septic system will be constructed to
treat 5,250 gallons of flow. The effluent from the proposed septic
system will be routed to a 14,000 gallon per day sand filter, which
recharges the groundwater. No expansion of the sand filter is required,
but a new chlorine contact tank will be provided. The project is in the
Bush Kill Watershed, upstream from its confluence with the Neversink
River in the drainage area of DRBC Special Protection Waters.
12. Valleybrook Golf Club D-2006-21-1. An application for approval
of a surface water withdrawal project to supply up to 7 mg/30 days of
water to the applicant's golf course irrigation system from three
surface water intakes from a series of one lake and retention ponds on
Pines Run. The project is located in the Pines Run Watershed in
Gloucester Township, Camden County, New Jersey.
13. Pocono Manor Investors Pt. 1, L.P. D-2006-43-1. A revised
application for approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply
up to 15.984 mg/30 days of water to the applicant's Pocono Manor site
from new Wells Nos. 1, 2 and 3 and to limit the existing withdrawal
from all wells to 15.984 mg/30 days. The wells will serve Phases I, II-
A, III & II-B of the docket holder's revised residential and commercial
development plans. The project is located in the Catskill Formation in
the Brodhead/Swiftwater Creek Watershed in Pocono Township, Monroe
County, Pennsylvania. The location is also within the drainage area to
the section of the non-tidal Delaware River known as the Middle
Delaware, which is classified as Special Protection Waters.
14. Wayne Economic Development Corporation D-2007-18-1. An
application for the approval of the new Sterling Business Park WWTP.
The new 35,000 gpd WWTP will service the 252-acre Sterling Business
Park of the Wayne County Economic Development Corporation (WEDCO). The
Sterling Business Park will consist of up to 23 commercial building
sites, ranging in size from 3 to 30 acres. The project includes a 7,000
gpd non-potable water reuse system for restrooms and landscape
irrigation. The applicant's WWTP will discharge to the West Branch
Wallenpaupack Creek, within the section of the non-tidal Delaware
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River known as the Upper Delaware, which is classified as Special
Protection Waters. The facility is located on State Route 0191,
approximately one mile north of the S.R.0191/Newfoundland exit off I-84
in Sterling Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania.
15. Upper Makefield Township D-2007-24 CP-1. An application for
approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 8.43 mg/
30 days of water to the applicant's public water supply distribution
system from new Wells HH1, HH2, HH4, GTW1 and GTW2. The project is
located in the Brunswick and Lockatong formations in the Houghs Creek
and Delaware River watersheds in Upper Makefield Township, Bucks
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.
16. Upper Makefield Township D-2007-25 CP-1. An application for the
approval of the new 20,000 gpd Gray Tract WWTP. The WWTP will serve
approximately 96 age-restricted dwellings and 14 existing homes and is
proposed to discharge to an unnamed tributary of Hough's Creek, which
is tributary to the Delaware River. The facility is located in Upper
Makefield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 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.
17. Congoleum Corporation D-2007-35-1. An application to discharge
an average of 122,000 gallons per day of non-contact cooling and storm
water from the applicant's tile floor manufacturing facility. The
discharge is to a Hamilton Township municipal storm sewer, which
discharges to Hamilton Ditch and Miry Run, tributaries to the Delaware
River. The facility is located in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New
Jersey.
18. U.S. Silica--Port Elizabeth Mine D-2007-37-1. An application
for approval of a surface water withdrawal project to supply up to 288
mg/30 days of water from surface water Intake No. 1 for sand and gravel
processing and up to 0.778 mg/30 days from one well used for sanitary
supply at the facility. The project is located in the Maurice River
Watershed in Mauricetown Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey.
19. Franconia Sewer Authority D-2007-41 CP-1. An application for
approval of the construction of a new 0.15 mgd Franconia Sewer
Authority WWTP, pump station and appurtenances. The new WWTP will serve
the new Souderton Area High School and sanitary waste from Smithfield
Beef Group (formerly Moyer Packing Company). The WWTP will discharge to
the Skippack Creek, a tributary to the Perkiomen Creek, which is a
tributary to the Schuylkill River. The facility will be located in
Franconia Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
20. Pocono Manor Investors, L.P. D-2007-44-1. An application for
approval of a surface water withdrawal project to supply up to 0.72 mg/
30 days of water to the applicant's irrigation system from Intake No. 1
and to limit the existing withdrawal from all intakes to 0.72 mg/30
days. The project is located on Indian Run, a tributary to Pocono Creek
in Pocono Township, Monroe 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.
21. Congoleum Corporation, D-2005-25-2. Approval is requested for
corrections to the effluent table in section A.4.d. of Docket D-2005-
25-1 issued on March 1, 2006 for an industrial discharge of non-contact
cooling water and stormwater from Congoleum Plant No. 2. The effluent
table incorrectly listed limits for four parameters for which DRBC
lacked applicable requirements: Bromodichlorormethane, Chloroform,
Chlorine Produced Oxidants and Chronic Toxicity. The Executive Director
subsequently issued corrected Docket D-2005-25-2, in which the state
limits are listed for these parameters, pending ratification by the
Commission. The discharge is made to the Hamilton Township storm sewer,
which discharges to Pond Run, a tributary of the Assunpink Creek. The
facility is located in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey.
22. Borough of South Coatesville, D-74-39 CP-2. Approval is
requested for corrections to the effluent table in section A.4.d. of
Docket D-74-39-CP-2 issued on July 18, 2007 for the rerate of the South
Coatesville Wastewater Treatment Plant. The effluent table incorrectly
listed a Commission limit for Dissolved Oxygen that is inapplicable to
the South Coatesville Borough facility. The Executive Director
subsequently issued corrected Docket D-74-39 CP-2, in which the
applicable state limit is listed for this parameter, pending
ratification by the Commission. The facility is located on the border
between South Coatesville Borough and Modena Borough in Chester County,
Pennsylvania. The discharge is to the West Brandywine Creek.
In addition, the Commission's 1:30 p.m. business meeting will
include adoption of the Minutes of the Commission's December 12, 2007
business meeting; announcements of upcoming advisory committee meetings
and other events; a report by the Executive Director; a report by the
Commission's General Counsel; consideration of a resolution for the
minutes authorizing the Executive Director to engage an engineering
firm to oversee lighting and HVAC improvements to the Commission's West
Trenton office building; a resolution to adopt the Commission's annual
budget for the Fiscal Year ending 2009 (July 1, 2008 through June 30,
2009); and an opportunity for public dialogue. The hearing on the
proposed budget took place on December 12, 2007.
Draft dockets scheduled for public hearing on March 12, 2008 are
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: February 28, 2008.
Pamela M. Bush,
Commission Secretary.
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