ENB Region 5 Completed Applications 11/30/2005

The applicant proposes to construct a waste materials processing facility at 615 Main St. that will process 100 tons per day of municipal wastewater treatment plant biosolids and 100 tons per day of municipal solid waste to produce 97 tons per day of compost material. Processing will occur in an existing building that contains biosolids digesters and a new 94,500 sq. ft. building that will house a rotary drum digester. All processed material will be stored indoors during the 55 day composting process and the air from the building will pass through a biofilter containing wood chips prior to being exhausted. Non-processable solid waste will be sorted and disposed of at a permitted solid waste facility. The final product will be used as an agricultural soil amendment. The Department has prepared a draft Air State Facility permit for the emissions from the facility and a Solid Waste Management Facility permit will also be required.

Proposed construction of an equipment storage facility in the adjacent area of Freshwater Wetland C-40 (Class I).  The 50 foot by 50 foot storage building and associated entrance road, parking area, and stormwater basin will disturb 0.64 acre of wetland adjacent area. No impact to the actual wetland will occur.  The project is located on the west side of Northern Pines Road, opposite Lonesome Pine Trail, Town of Wilton.

    The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has received an application to

re-issue/re-new  the following pre-existing 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 with updated regulatory requirements and maintaining current effluent limitations and monitoring and reporting requirements.  This permit involves the surface discharge through a sand filter of up to 14,000 gallons per day of treated sanitary waste to Mud 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 013 1334