ENB Region 3 Completed Applications 07/26/2006

The applicant proposes to dredge an existing pond within a state designated freshwater wetland WD-15 (class II).  The project site is a 1.3 acre pond located on the south side of Coldenham Road about 0.7 mile east of the intersection with NYS Route 208. Approximately 4,200 cubic yards of accumulated silt and sediment will be removed from the pond and placed on-site outside the regulated wetland and 100-foot adjacent area, where it will be graded and stabilized with vegetation.

DEC has tentatively determined to issue a draft State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) permit to Meadow Creek Development, LLC for discharge of sanitary wastewater from a the proposed Orchard Hills subdivision wastewater treatment plant (WWTP.) The project site is located in the Town of Newburgh/Middlehope, Orange County, off NYS Route 9W, north of Oak Street.  The draft SPDES permit authorizes a discharge of 120,000 gallons per day to a Class C unnamed tributary of the Hudson River. The permit contains effluent limits for Flow, BOD, Temperature, Suspended Solids, Settleable Solids,  Dissolved Oxygen, Nitrogen, Fecal Coliform, pH and Total Residual Chlorine.  The WWTP, when constructed, will serve the proposed Orchard Hills 272-unit subdivision and will also serve the existing 150-unit Apple Valley Apartment complex, located west of the site across NYS Route 9W.  The current SPDES permit for the Apple Valley Apartment complex will remain in effect until diversion is effectively complete.  DEC will discontinue the SPDES permit upon request of the permittee after successful decommissioning of the existing WWTP on the Apple Valley site.

    Existing Apple Valley Apartments SPDES number:  NY 003 2352

    Proposed Orchard Hills SPDES number:  NY 027 1373

The applicant proposes to treat up to 7 acres of Brown's Pond, which totals about  11.72 acres,  with the aquatic pesticides Aquathol-K (active ingredient: endothall) and AquaPro (active ingredient: glyphosate).  The treatment site is located on Brown's Pond along the north side of Mooney Hill Road, approximately 600 feet east of the intersection with Luddingtonville Road in the Town of Kent.  The purpose of the treatments is to control nuisance aquatic vegetation Nuphar sp. (pond lilies) and Ceratophyllum demersum (coon's tail).  The treatment area is also a portion of State-designated Freshwater Wetland LC-6 (Class II).

The applicant proposes to construct an addition to an existing single family residence within the 100-foot adjacent area of State-designated Freshwater Wetland K-21 (Class II). The project site is located on the west side of Byram Lake Road, approximately 0.5 mile south of the Interstate 684 overpass.  Construction within the 100-foot adjacent area will include the 600 square foot addition, a deck measuring about 15 feet square, the installation of two subsurface stormwater infiltration fields totalling about 1,300 square feet, and driveway resurfacing.  All improvements will occur within existing lawn areas.