ENB Region 3 Completed Applications 09/27/2006

          The Town of Fishkill has applied for a Water Supply permit to develop Well #T-1 in the Snook Road Wellfield for use in the Snook Road Water Improvement Area, for use in the Merritt Park Water District, and also to serve water to the Shenandoah Road Area in the Town of East Fishkill.  Well #T-1 is a shallow sand and gravel aquifer well which is approximately 80 feet deep.  It is cased with steel down through the first 60 feet to the water bearing strata.  The Town submitted a Hydrogeologic Investigation Report indicating that the well was tested at a pumping rate of approximately 1,100 gallons per minute (gpm).  The report also states that five observation wells around Well #T-1 showed little or no fluctuation in the water elevation of the aquifer during the pumptest.  

        Water from the well would be used to provide approximately 300,000 gallons per day to the Snook Road Water Improvement Area, which includes portions of the Merritt Park Water District, and to provide approximately 80,000 gallons per day to the Shenandoah Road Area in the nearby Town of East Fishkill.  Additional amounts of water, up to approximately 400,000 gallons per day, would be used to supplement or replace existing sources of water, as needed, in three other existing Town of Fishkill Water Districts, specifically the Brinkerhoff, Blodgett and Glenham Water Districts.

        The Snook Road Wellfield is located near the intersection of NYS Route 9 and Snook Road, and is also bordered by Interstate 84, in the Town of Fishkill, Dutchess County New York.

Dutchess Quarry and Supply proposes to increase the depth of excavation at its Pleasant Valley Quarry from the currently permitted 160 feet above mean sea level elevation to a final floor elevation of 240 feet below mean sea level.  All current mining operations will remain unchanged.  The total area of quarry to be affected is 50.7 acres.  A water impoundment with surface elevation at approximately 200 feet above mean sea level is the proposed final reclamation at the completion of mining.

DEC has tentatively determined to issue an Article 24 Freshwater Wetlands (FW) permit to the above referenced applicant for disturbance to FW F-1 and Adjacent Area (AA.)

The proposed project is a component of a larger NYC Watershed WWTP upgrade program project undertaken by NYCDEP and Somers CSD.  The permit would authorize:

-Removal of appx. 188' feet of gravity sewer pipe leading to existing sand filter system (to be abandoned) in AA;

-Removal of appx. 75' of gravity sewer pipe leading from chlorine contact tank to Somers Intermediate School building in AA;

-Removal of disabled chlorine contact tank in AA;

-Removal of a 225' portion of gravity sewer pipe heading east from chlorine contact tank in AA;

-Installation of appx. 1695' of sewer force main (FM) through AA;

-Installation of appx. 225' of FM in AA along Heritage Hills Drive;

-Installation of appx. 200' of gravity sewer main along Heritage Hills Drive in AA; and

-Installation of appx. 5' of FM directly into F-1 via a borehole traversing below stream at Route 202.