ENB Region 3 Completed Applications 02/22/2006

The Department has made a tentative determination to approve this application to modify a SPDES permit to reflect various changes in operation of the facility and a decrease in flow from an existing surface discharge (Outfall No. 001) from five (5) million gallons per day (MGD) to 2.5 MGD of treated sanitary wastewater from the City of Port Jervis municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP)  into the Neversink River (Class B).  The reduction in flow represents an administrative correction to the issued SPDES permit for this facility and is based upon submitted engineering documents for this facility.  The proposed modification to the SPDES permit includes revisions to certain  influent sampling requirements, monitoring requirements, and effluent limits. The project also involves replacing various equipment at the facility and constructing new primary clarifier, gravity thickener and sludge holding tank.  There will be no increase in permitted volume of the discharge as a result of the project. The Port Jervis WWTP  is located at 4 Neversink Drive in the City of Port Jervis, Orange County. A draft permit is available for inspection and comment at the regional office.

    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 rotating bbiological contact system of up to 13,500 gallons per day of treated sanitary waste to the Mill Brook.

    Additional information on this permit may be requested from or inspected at the NYSDEC Region 3 Office in New Paltz or 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 023 5432

The applicant proposes to rehabilitate a five-mile long portion of a paved pedestrian /bicycle path, the Bronx River Reservation Pathway, from Greenacres Avenue to Kensico Dam Plaza, and construct a new one mile long portion of paved trail within downtown White Plains.  Proposed work consists of removal of silt and debris from within the Bronx River [Class C(t)] at three locations, and construction/reconstruction of various components within the channel of the river, including construction of new concrete retaining walls, construction of new concrete bridge abutments and walkway “shelf” within an existing culvert, installation of new timber pedestrian bridge, and construction of new rip-rap streambank protection.  Approximately 300 linear feet of the Bronx River will be disturbed during construction activities associated with this project. The project is located in the Bronx River Reservation, south of Chatterton Avenue (northern portion) to Martine Avenue (southern portion), in the City of white Plains, Westchester County.