ENB Region 3 Completed Applications 09/17/2003

The applicant requests a modification of an existing permit requesting a variance to mine up to property lines at a portion of an existing 98-acre sand and gravel mine.  This variance would increase the affected land by approximately 1/5 of an acre.  The location is on the east side of County Route 3 (AKA Bog Hollow Road) in South Amenia.

The Department has made a tentative determination to approve this application to modify a SPDES permit to increase an existing discharge from 16,000 gallons per day (gpd) to 29,440 gpd of treated sanitary wastewater, and add two additional subsurface outfalls (Outfall Nos. 003 & 004) at the applicant's operating seasonal camp in conjunction with the construction of two new 56-room on site hotel buildings. Each new subsurface outfall will discharge 6,720 gallons per day (gpd), resulting in a total increase in the facility's discharge of 13,440 gpd.  The project involves the construction of new septic tanks, dosing systems, and leaching fields. Camp Manahaim is located on Old White Lake Turnpike (Blum Road) 2,000 feet north of Butrick Road in the Town of Bethel, Sullivan County. A draft permit is available for inspection and comment at the regional office.

       The applicant, Karta Corporation, has applied for a modification of their current Part 360 permit to consolidate and increase the daily tonnage limit at their existing transfer station and at their existing registered recycling facility, currently operating on adjacent properties, both of which are controlled and operated by Karta Corp.  

         Karta Corp is currently authorized:

--- to accept up to 500 Tons per Day (TPD) of mixed municipal waste and Construction & Demolition Debris (C&D Debris) at its transfer station, and

--- as a registered registered recycling facility that accepts an average of 200 TPD of source separated recyclables, clean wood and recognizable uncontaminated concrete, masonry, asphalt, pavement, brick, soil or rock.  

      Karta Corp's permit modification asks to combine these total tonnages and increase them up to 916 tons per 8-hour shift for all these types of waste, resulting in a requested maximum daily total of 2,750 tons per day, if the Department authorizes receipt of waste for three shifts per day.  Karta Corp has also asked the Department to authorize the operational flexibility to allocate this 916 tons per shift to one or all of these types of waste listed above depending upon market needs but also limited by the ability of each building and each type of processing equipment to actually handle this tonnage and to shift between various types of waste.

     As part of consolidation of the existing solid waste activities on these two adjacent sites, Karta Corp is also seeking approval for the ongoing reconstruction and upgrade of the buildings on these sites to completely enclose all aspects of the receipt, processing and shipment of these materials.

     The Karta Corp transfer station and the Karta Corp registered recycling facility are located just off NYS Rt 9, on two adjacent lots at 1011 & 1017 Lower South Street, in the City of Peekskill, Westchester County, NY.

The applicant proposes to disturb a portion of Freshwater Wetland W-1 (Class II) and the 100 foot adjacent area in conjunction with the construction of a 120,000 square foot office building with drainage improvements and associated parking facilities on a 27.3-acre parcel. The project is part of a previously approved and partially constructed office complex, the Sutton Park Office Development (DEC Permit Nos. 3083-0930 & 3-5534-00044/00003).  The previously approved project has been modified to minimize further disturbance to regulated areas of Freshwater Wetland W-1.  The total area of disturbance to the wetland under the current proposal is approximately 0.05-acre; the total area of disturbance to the adjacent area is approximately 0.84-acre. Approximately 1.7-acres of new wetland and wetland enhancements were constructed at the project site under the previously issued DEC permits; no further mitigation is required for the current proposal. The project is located on the west side of Columbus Avenue, approximately 2000 feet north of Stevens Avenue in the Town of Mount Pleasant, Westchester County. A stormwater management plan has been prepared and is available for review.