ENB Region 2 Completed Applications 10/12/2005

The Department has made a tentative determination to approve this application for a new permit for a proposed discharge of up to 900,000 gallons per day of treated groundwater into Hendrix Creek (Class I) from a  treatment system consisting of a settling tank at the applicant’s facility located at 12266 Flatlands Avenue in Brooklyn where the applicant is performing construction work to upgrade the WPCP.  A draft permit is available for inspection and comment at the regional office.

Applicant proposes to operate a test well to provide data for the design of a dewatering system to facilitate the rehabilitation of the Avenue V Pump Station with a maximum withdrawal of up to 2,900,000 gallons per day during the 7 day pumping test.  The maximum withdrawal for the duration of the test is 25,000,000 gallons. The test well will be located within the property lines of the pump station located at 76 Avenue V in Brooklyn, NY.  The pumped groundwater discharge is to be treated with appropriately sized settling tanks and oil/water separator and directed to the Coney Island Creek via Outfall OH-021.

The applicant proposes the general maintenance of two existing liquid petroleum products pipeline, appurtenances and right-of way (ROW) corridor. The proposed work includes pipeline inspection/repair, inspection of roadway casings, maintenance of valves, hydrostatic tests and mowing and clearing of right-of-ways. The pipelines begin at the Arthur Kill from New Jersey and continue eastward approximately 3 miles to Interstate 287.

The applicant proposes to construct 33 detached single-family houses, with associated paving, utilities, landscaping, and streets, on a 7.7-acre parcel on Richmond County Tax Block 7792, surrounding a lobe of DEC Freshwater Wetland No. AR-23 (Page Avenue). The site is bounded on the north by Minerva Avenue and Low Street, on the east by Page Avenue, on the west by Geigerich Avenue, and is located in the Tottenville/Richmond Valley section of southwestern Staten Island.  All developed areas, including rear yards, will be kept a minimum of 60 feet from the wetland.  A naturally vegetated buffer zone will be established within this non-disturbance zone.  Approximately 2.8 acres of the 7.7-acre site will be preserved as wetlands and adjacent buffer area.  Sanitary discharges will be directed to a new sewer system to be constructed in the new streets as part of the project, and sent to the Oakwood Beach Water Pollution Control Plant for treatment.