ENB Region 4 Completed Applications 01/25/2006

The applicant proposes to dock a seasonal barge/restaurant on the Hudson River north of the Congress Street Bridge at the Watervliet waterfront park. The proposal includes a 7000 sq. ft. with 2500 sq. ft. of floating docks, and includes two spuds driven onto bedrock in the river for anchoring, and access by two gangway ramps from the shore to the barge, supported by concrete pier.

    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 up to 5300 gallons per day of treated sanitary waste to a tributary of the Mohawk River.

    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 021 3055