ENB Region 7 Completed Applications 05/25/2005

    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 aerated lagoons of up to 23,000 gallons per day of treated sanitary waste to a tributary of the Canaseraga 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 4027

Applicant proposes to construct a new two car garage within the 100 foot adjacent area of wetland CLE-1 including placement of approx. 1 foot of fill over 1600 square feet. Project plans are available for review in the Syracuse Office.

The applicant proposes to have granular Aqua-Kleen applied to a ten acre area of the Seneca River, located approximately 2500 feet to 4000 feet east of the Route 690 Bridge to near the village of Baldwinsville boundary, located in the town of Van Buren, for the control of water chestnut.  The applicant also uses and encourages mechanical harvesting and hand-pulling to help control water chestnut.  This proposal is consistent with the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement On Aquatic Vegetation Control Program of the Department of Environmental Conservation and its Findings. The application materials area available for public review and comment at the NYS DEC Region 7 Office, Division of Environmental Permits.