ENB Region 2 Completed Applications 02/04/2004

    

Modification of the physical plant and operation of an existing transfer station.  The facility’s current throughput capacity is 3,000 tons per day (TPD) putrescible solid waste (PSW) and construction and demolition debris (C&D).  The facility’s current storage capacity is 6,000 cubic yards (CY) PSW and C&D in the solid waste handling building, plus the PSW and C&D that can be stored in 92 railcars.  Pursuant to the subject proposal, the facility’s throughput capacity would increase to 4,000 TPD PSW and C&D, and the facility’s storage capacity in its solid waste handling building would increase to 16,000 CY of PSW and C&D.  The proposal includes no increase in the solid waste stored in rail cars.  The proposed increase in facility throughput capacity would increase facility traffic by 117 trucks per day.  To offset this, the Applicant proposes to close its 315 Barretto Street facility (DEC  No. 2-6007-00057/00001), which has a permitted capacity of 1,382 cubic yards per day (equivalent to 1,036.5 TPD) of uncontaminated masonry waste, asphalt, brick, soil, and rock.  Such closure would decrease potential traffic by up to 127 trucks per day.  The net result of the proposal would be a 10 truck per day decrease in potential traffic.  The proposed modification of the transfer station’s physical plant is limited to the addition of one loader and one forklift.

The applicant proposes to construct a new two-story one-family house within NYSDEC regulated tidal and freshwater wetlands. The proposed house meets the 30 foot setback requirement from the NYSDEC regulated tidal wetland boundary in accordance with developmental restrictions set forth in 6NYCRR Part 661.6(a)(1) - Tidal Wetlands land Use Regulation. The applicant has requested a variance from the developmental restrictions set forth in 6NYCRR Part 661.6(a)(2) to construct a septic tank and seepage pit within 100 feet of the tidal wetlands boundary. As mitigation for the variance, the applicant proposes the rear 20 feet of the property  to be a deed restricted area of no land alteration and a 12 foot wide strip on the north side of the property to be deed restricted vegetated buffer area. The project site is located at 32-11 Douglas Road, Douglaston, Queens.