[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 146 (Wednesday, July 30, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40806-40807]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-19968]


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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, August 6, 1997. The hearing 
will be part of the Commission's regular business meeting which is open 
to the public and scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Harbor Room of 
the University of Delaware's Virden Center at 700 Pilottown Road, 
Lewes, Delaware.
    An informal conference among the Commissioners and staff will be 
held at 9:30 a.m. at the same location and will include a U.S. 
Geological Survey presentation on a regional pilot for integrated 
environmental monitoring and related research in the mid-Atlantic 
region; a presentation on the Delaware Estuary Program's monitoring 
plan; a discussion of proposed amendments to the Commission's 
Administrative Manual--Rules of Practice and Procedure and a Flow 
Management Technical Advisory Committee status report.
    In addition to the subjects listed below which are scheduled for 
public hearing at the business meeting, the Commission will also 
address the following: Minutes of the June 25, 1997 business meeting; 
announcements; General Counsel's report; report on Basin hydrologic 
conditions; consideration of Jefferson Township Sewer Authority Docket 
No. D-97-6 CP and public dialogue.
    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. Reed's Sod Farms  D-81-44 Renewal 3

    An application for the renewal of a ground water withdrawal 
project, formerly approved under the name of Stewart L. Reed, Jr., to 
supply up to 20 million gallons (mg)/30 days of water to the 
applicant's supplemental irrigation system from Well No. 1. Commission 
approval on December 11, 1991 was limited to five years. The applicant 
requests that the total withdrawal from all wells remain limited to 20 
mg/30 days. The project is located in Washington Township, Mercer 
County, New Jersey.

2. Schuylkill County Municipal Authority  D-90-49 CP (Revision 2)

    A project to increase the applicant's existing exportation of 
surface water from 0.6 million gallons per day (mgd) to 1.0 mgd. The 
project will provide 0.225 mgd to a site spanning portions of Foster, 
Butler and Cass Townships just east of Interstate Route 81 in 
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The project includes a new 
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation safety/rest area and the 
proposed Schuylkill Highridge Business Park. The project service area 
is situated in the Delaware River Basin (DRB) near the ridge line and 
exportation will be via discharge of wastewater to the Schuylkill 
County Municipal Authority wastewater treatment plant located in 
Gordon, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania in the Susquehanna River Basin 
(SRB). All of the exportation water sources are provided by the 
applicant's two existing water supply storage reservoirs, Kaufman 
Reservoir and Mount Laurel Reservoir (formerly known as Mud Run 
Reservoir). Kaufman Reservoir is located on Kaufman Run, a tributary of 
Mud Run, in New Castle Township; Mount Laurel Reservoir is located 
nearby on Mud Run, also in New Castle Township, all in the DRB in 
Schuylkill County. No increase in allocation from the two reservoirs is 
required to provide the increased exportation.

3. Evesham Township Municipal Utilities Authority  D-95-62 CP

    A project to upgrade and expand the applicant's 1.5 mgd Woodstream 
sewage treatment plant (STP) average monthly design capacity to 1.7 
mgd. The STP will continue to serve a portion of Evesham Township by 
providing secondary biological treatment utilizing the contact 
stabilization activated-sludge process and tertiary treatment with 
rapid sand filtration. The project will include improvement and 
expansion of the existing facilities and the addition of ammonia 
nitrogen removal facilities. The STP is located just north of Greentree 
Road on the east bank of the South Branch Pennsauken Creek, to which 
the STP will continue to discharge, in Evesham Township, Burlington 
County, New Jersey.

4. Richland Township Water Authority  D-96-44 CP

    An application for approval of a ground water withdrawal project to 
supply water to the applicant's distribution system from existing Well 
Nos. 1 and 2, from acquired Well No. 3 (formerly Judd Associates, Inc. 
Well No. RC-1), from acquired Well Nos. 4 and 5 (formerly Walnut Bank 
Water Company Well Nos. WB-2 and WB-3), and to increase the existing 
total withdrawal limit of 20.13 mg/30 days to 29.3 mg/30 days. The 
project is located in Richland Township, Bucks County, in the 
Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground Water Protected Area.

5. Borough of Washington  D-97-4 CP

    A discharge project to upgrade and expand the applicant's existing 
0.85 mgd STP to 1.5 mgd. The proposed STP will provide advanced 
secondary biological treatment with the sequencing batch reactor 
activated sludge treatment process. The STP will continue to serve the 
Borough and portions of Washington Township, Warren County, New Jersey 
and, after ultraviolet disinfection, discharge to Pohatcong Creek via a 
new outfall extension; the existing discharge to Shabbecong Creek, 
approximately 350 feet upstream of the new discharge, will be 
eliminated. The project STP is situated just south of Route 57 near the 
eastern boundary of the Borough of Washington on the south bank of 
Pohatcong Creek.

6. Merchantville-Pennsauken Water Commission  D-97-5 CP

    An application for approval of a ground water withdrawal project to 
supply up to 335 mg/30 days of water to the applicant's distribution 
system from 14 existing wells and new Well No. Browning Road 3A, and to 
reduce the existing withdrawal limit from all wells to 335 mg/30 days. 
The project is located in Merchantville Borough and Pennsauken 
Township, Camden County, New Jersey.

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7. City of Allentown  D-97-14 CP

    A project to modify the applicant's Klines Island STP to improve 
the secondary settling and final settling processes, along with other 
operational and equipment modifications. The STP project is intended to 
more efficiently meet the effluent parameters in the current and future 
discharge permits. The STP will continue to be rated for a 40 mgd 
average monthly flow and discharge to the Lehigh River in the City of 
Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The STP will continue to serve 
the City of Allentown, the Boroughs of Coplay, Emmaus, Alburtis and 
Macungie, and the Townships of Whitehall, South Whitehall, Salisbury, 
Upper Macungie, Lower Macungie, Upper Milford, Hanover, Weisenberg and 
Lowhill, all in Lehigh County.
    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.

    Dated: July 21, 1997.
Susan M. Weisman,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-19968 Filed 7-29-97; 8:45 am]
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