ENB Region 9 Completed Applications 05/18/2005

The applicant proposes a subsurface discharge of 22,000 gallons per day of treated (septic tank/tile field) wastewater from the appicant's new Public Safety Facility located on the east side of NYS Route19, approximately 3,000 feet  southwest of the Village of Belmont.  The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (Department) has made a tentative determination to issue a State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) permit under Article 17 of the Environmental Conservation Law for this discharge. This tentative determination indicates that the discharge regulated under this statute is considered to satisfy regulatory standards for permit issuance, based on information available to the Department at this time. The application and draft permit, containing Department proposed effluent limits and monitoring requirements, are available for public inspection at the Department's Region 9, Allegany Office. As a tentative determination, the Department seeks comments on the proposed regulated activity prior to making a final decision on permit issuance. As such, this tentative determination does not signify Department approval for or endorsement of the activity for which a permit is sought.  Please refer to this application by the application number listed above and SPDES number: NY0269522.

The applicant proposes to add a portable crushing and screening unit that has a maximum operating capacity less than 150 tons per hour to the currently permitted 4.5 acre Wesley Gravel Pit.  No other changes are proposed.  The Wesley gravel Pit is located on the west side of NYS Route 353 immediately south of the intersection of Markham Road.

The town proposes to excavate its gravel pit a maximum of 12 feet deeper.  Following excavation, replacing overburden and topsoil will raise the final elevation 2 feet.  This will leave a bowl-shapeed area with the highest slopes at the southeast corner and matching the existing undisturbed  ground elevation at the northwest corner. Reclamation will result in a grassy meadow.  The mine site is adjacent to the town barn, east of Allegany Road, about 0.34 miles north of NYS Route 242.

    The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has received an application to re-issue/re-new  the following pre-existing EPA minor Private/Commercial/Institutional State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (P/C/I SPDES) permit.  DEC has made a tentative determination to re-issue/re-new this pre-existing permit for a five year term maintaining current effluent limitations and monitoring and reporting requirements.  This permit involves the surface discharge through a sand filter of up to 1,000 gallons per day of treated sanitary waste to a tributary of the Stillwater Creek.

    Additional information on this permit may be requested from or inspected at the NYSDEC Central Office in Albany.  Substantive comments must be submitted in writing to the contact person.  To be called substantive, 6 NYCRR Part 621.7 requires public comments "explain the basis of opposition and explain specific grounds..." for opposition.

    SPDES #:  NY 010 0684

Renewal with modification of the Village of Attica  composting permit.  The village intends to increase current composting operations from 800 cubic yards per year to 1000 cubic yards per year.  Storage of curing finished compost will be in the sludge drying bed area of the waste water treatment plant.