[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 31 (Wednesday, February 15, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8646-8647]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-3717]



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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, February 22, 1995. The hearing 
will be part of the Commission's regular business meeting which is open 
to the public and scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. in the Goddard 
Conference Room of the Commission's offices at 25 State Police Drive, 
West Trenton, New Jersey.
    An informal conference among the Commissioners and staff will be 
open for public observation at 10:00 a.m. at the same location and will 
include a discussion of the proposed Commission Geographic Information 
System.
    The subjects of the hearing will be as follows:

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

    1. ConAgra Poultry Company (formerly Country Pride Foods) D-84-15 
RENEWAL. An application for the renewal of a ground water withdrawal 
project to supply up to 33 million gallons (mg)/30 days of water to the 
applicant's poultry processing facility from existing Well Nos. 1 and 
2. Commission approval on June 27, 1984 was limited to 10 years. The 
applicant requests that the total withdrawal from all wells be 
increased from 27 mg/30 days to 33 mg/30 days. The project is located 
in the City of Milford, Kent County, Delaware.
    2. Harry T. Hudson D-84-31 RENEWAL. An application for the renewal 
of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 19.55 mg/30 days 
of water to the applicant's agricultural irrigation system from Well 
No. 1. Commission approval on September 25, 1984 was limited to 10 
years. The applicant requests that the total withdrawal from all wells 
remain limited to 19.55 mg/30 days. The project is located in Sussex 
County, Delaware.
    3. Utility Group Services Corporation D-89-40 CP RENEWAL. An 
application for the renewal of a ground water withdrawal project to 
supply up to 23.1 mg/30 days of water to the applicant's distribution 
system from Well Nos. 1 through 18. Commission approval on October 25, 
1989 was limited to five years. The applicant requests that the total 
withdrawal from all wells remain limited to 23.1 mg/30 days. The 
project is located in West Bradford Township, Chester County in the 
Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground Water Protected Area.
    4. Concord Mobile Home Park D-92-68. A sewage treatment plant (STP) 
project that entails construction of a 63,500 gallons per day (gpd) 
capacity secondary level extended aeration plant to serve a proposed 
254 lot mobile home park in Concord Township, Delaware County, 
Pennsylvania. The STP will discharge to Green Creek, a tributary of 
West Branch Chester Creek, at a point just north of Concord Road.
    5. Utility Group Services Corporation D-94-4. A project to upgrade 
and expand the applicant's Little Washington Drainage Company STP 
located in East Brandywine Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The 
STP serves two residential developments in East Brandywine Township, 
Culbertson Run and The Timbers. The STP will expand from 53,100 gpd to 
93,000 gpd and the advanced secondary treatment facilities will be 
modified from extended aeration to the sequencing batch reactor process 
with tertiary filtration. The existing allowable discharge to 
Culbertson Run will remain at 53,100 gpd with the expanded allowable 
discharge of 40,000 gpd to be pumped to two proposed infiltration beds 
for subsurface disposal.
    6. City of Dover D-94-27 CP. An application for approval of a 
ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 138 mg/30 days of water 
to the [[Page 8647]] applicant's distribution system from new Well Nos. 
1A, 2, 4B, 5, 6A, 7A and 8A screened in the Columbia Formation, and to 
retain the existing withdrawal limit from all wells of 300 mg/30 days. 
The proposed project wells are located in a north-south line east of 
the City of Dover, Kent County, Delaware.
    7. Richard M. Morgan, Jr. D-94-55. An application for approval of a 
ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 21.6 mg/30 days of 
water to the applicant's agricultural irrigation system from new Well 
No. 3, to increase the existing withdrawal limit of 25 mg/30 days from 
all wells to 56.16 mg/30 days, and to supply up to 63.27 mg/30 days 
from surface water intakes Nos. 1 and 2. The project is located in 
Sussex County, Delaware.
    8. Superior Water Company D-94-58 CP. An application for approval 
of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 2.16 mg/30 days of 
water to the applicant's distribution system from new Well No. 5, to 
limit the withdrawal from all wells to 15.00 mg/30 days, and to 
consolidate all wells into one comprehensive docket. The project is 
located in Douglass and New Hanover Townships, Montgomery County, in 
the Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground Water Protected Area.
    9. Holly Hills Golf Club D-94-60. An application for approval of a 
surface water withdrawal of 7 mg/30 days for irrigation of the 
applicant's golf course. The applicant will continue to utilize three 
existing man-made ponds located in the drainage area of Carlisle Run 
and Deep Run, both tributaries of Alloway Creek in Alloway Township, 
Salem County, New Jersey.
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Proposed Water Charging Contract for North Penn Water Authority/North 
Wales Water Authority

    Pursuant to the provisions of the Delaware River Basin Compact, 
DRBC Resolution No. 71-4 and Section 5.3.2 of Resolution No. 74-6, a 
contract is proposed between the Delaware River Basin Commission and 
North Penn/North Wales Water Authorities to provide payment of water 
charges in connection with the Point Pleasant Pumping Station and 
related transmission facilities purchased from Bucks County, 
Pennsylvania.
    Documents related 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 and Dr. Richard Tortoriello concerning the proposed 
North Penn/North Wales Water Authorities contract. Persons wishing to 
testify at this hearing are requested to register with the Secretary 
prior to the hearing.

    Dated: February 7, 1995.
Susan M. Weisman,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-3717 Filed 2-14-95; 8:45 am]
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