ENB Region 7 Completed Applications 01/12/2005

The Department of Environmental Conservation has made a tentative determination to issue a permit for the subsurface discharge of 3600 gpd of sanitary and cooling wastewater as well as a surface discharge of stormwater to a tributary of Canasawacta Creek, a Class C stream.  This is an existing facility.  A draft permit is available for review.  The facility is in the Town of Plymouth.

The Department has prepared a draft permit and made a tentative determination to approve this application.  The application, draft permit, releveant supporting materials, and regulations are available for review during normal business hours at the DEC office indicated in this Notice.  Comments of support or objection may be made by filing a written statement by the deadline date indicated.  DEC may schedule a public hearing upon an evaluation of written comments.  Hearing Notices will contain instruction on filing for party status and submitting comments.

Colgate University, in Hamilton, NY, operates a heating plant consisting of four boilers. Two of the boilers fire #6 oil and are rated at 46.7 million BTU/hr and were installed in May 1966; a third boiler, rated at 25.1 million BTU/hr, also fires #6 oil, and was installed in 1987; a fourth boiler is a wood-fired Industrial boiler installed in 1981, with a heat input capacity of 31 million BTU/hr.

The oil-fired boilers have no emissions control, and all three exhaust through one stack. The wood-fired boiler is equipped with multiple cyclones, with flyash re-injection.

The proposed permit established emission limits on particulate matter, opacity, and fuel sulfur.  The permit also establishes annual emission caps for NOx, CO, and SO2 under which the facility will remain minor and exempt from Title V.

The Town of Lebanon, as applicant proposes to expand an existing gravel mine from the currently-permitted five acres to thirty-five acres.  This would involve reclaiming an existing pit

and opening another on the same 125 acre parcel, located on Keefe Road, off Randallsville Road, in the Town of Lebanon.  On-site processing may include screening and crushing with portable, temporary units.

Applicant proposes to construct a two story, three car garage on an existing foundation within the adjacent area of state wetland CIC-3 and also place approximately 267 cubic yards of fill material over 2400 square feet of the adjacent area for additional lawn.  The application is available for review in the Syracuse Office.