DELAWARE RIVER BASIN COMMISSION Commission Meeting and Public Hearing [28 Pa.B. 1844] The Delaware River Basin Commission will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, April 21, 1998. The hearing will be part of the Commission's regular business meeting which is open to the public and scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Seminar Room of the Burlington Meeting House at 340 High Street, Burlington, NJ.
In addition to the subjects listed below which are scheduled for public hearing, the Commission will also address the following: Minutes of the March 25, 1998 business meeting; announcements; General Counsel's Report; report on Basin hydrologic conditions; overview of Water Snapshot '96-'98; and public dialogue.
The subjects of the hearing will be as follows:
Applications for Approval of the Following Projects under Article 10.3, Article 11 and/or Section 3.8 of the Compact:
1. Superior Tube Company D-96-13. A groundwater withdrawal project to withdraw up to 13 million gallons (mg)/30 days of water as part of the applicant's groundwater remediation system from new Well Nos. MW-18, MW-19, MW-20, MW-22 and PW-3D, and to limit the withdrawal from all wells to 13 mg/30 days. The project is located in Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, in the Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground Water Protected Area.
2. Superior Tube Company D-97-23. A project to consolidate discharges from the applicant's industrial wastewater treatment system, ground water remediation treatment system, and noncontact cooling water into one new outfall to Perkiomen Creek, at a combined average monthly rate of approximately 0.273 million gallons per day (mgd). The existing effluents are currently discharged to tributaries of the Perkiomen Creek (an unnamed tributary and French Run). The proposed outfall will be located just to the west of the applicant's specialty metal tube manufacturing plant site just north of Route 422 on the east side of the Perkiomen Creek in Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, PA.
3. Newmanstown Water Authority D-97-40 CP. A groundwater withdrawal project to supply up to 6 mg/30 days of water to the applicant's distribution system from new Well No. 5, and to limit the withdrawal from Well Nos. 1, 4 and 5 to 10.3 mg/30 days. The project is located in Millcreek Township, Lebanon County, PA.
4. AES Ironwood Power, Inc. D-97-45. A project to construct a 700 megawatt gas-fired combined cycle electric generation facility in South Lebanon Township, Lebanon County, PA. The applicant proposes to meet its water needs of up to 4.5 mgd by diversion of up to 2.25 mgd from an existing quarry discharge to Tulpehocken Creek (located in the Delaware River Basin), and by diversion of up to 2.25 mgd from a portion of the City of Lebanon sewage treatment plant wastewater discharge from Quittapahilla Creek (located in the Susquehanna River Basin). While the diversion of water from the discharge to Quittapahilla Creek is an importation of water into the Delaware River Basin, the proposed project is designed to have no discharge to surface or groundwater.
5. Fairton Federal Correctional Institution D-98-5 CP. A groundwater withdrawal project to supply up to 8.53 mg/30 days of water to the applicant's prison facility from existing Well Nos. 1 and 2, and to limit the withdrawal from all wells to 8.53 mg/30 days. The project is located in Fairfield Township, Cumberland County, NJ.
6. Evansburg Water Company D-98-12 CP. A ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 0.9 mg/30 days of water to the applicant's Evansburg Division system from Well No. 102, and to limit the withdrawal from all wells to 2.6 mg/30 days. The project is located in Lower Providence 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 Thomas L. Brand at (609) 883-9500 ext. 221 concerning docket-related questions. Persons wishing to testify at this hearing are requested to register with the Secretary at (609) 883-9500 ext. 203 prior to the hearing.
SUSAN M. WEISMAN,
Secretary[Pa.B. Doc. No. 98-598. Filed for public inspection April 17, 1998, 9:00 a.m.]
