ENB Region 5 Completed Applications 02/28/2007

The Department has made a tentative determination, in accordance with its Environmental Benefit Permit Strategy, to modify the State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) permit for the Village of Rouses Point's Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP).  The existing permitted facility has a design flow discharge of 2.0 million gallons per day of treated wastewater to Lake Champlain, a Class A waterbody, from a secondary treatment plant located at Lily Avenue Extension in the Village of Rouses Point.  The permit modifications include 1) Updated permit effective and expiration dates, 2) Updated WWTP phone number, 3) Elimination of combined sewer outfall (CSO) 002 due to construction of new sewers, 4) Addition of new definitions page, 5) Addition of a Lake Champlain phosphorus Total Maximum Daily Limit (TMDL) of 15.78 lbs/day, 6) Elimination of the action level requirement to monitor for copper, zinc, 1,2-dichloroethane, chloroform and methylene chloride based on many years worth of sampling results showing that these compounds are not present or are well below concentrations that would require further monitoring, 7) Addition of an annual mini pretreatment reporting requirement and a short term high intensity monitoring program for mercury.  The draft permit (SPDES # NY 002 1831) is available for review by making an appointment with the contact person listed below.

Filed application documents, and Department draft permits where applicable, are available for inspection under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Law during normal business hours at the address of the contact person.

The applicant proposes to construct a 1.6-mile section of two-lane highway and reconfigure Curry Road and State Route 67/US Route 9 in order to create a bypass with the objective of removing through traffic from the Village of Round Lake. The road will begin at a proposed single-lane roundabout at Curry Road just east of I87 Exit 11, and continue without access, to the north and then east over a new 636 foot long bridge spanning Ballston Creek and associated regulated Freshwater Wetlands, and thereafter terminate at SR67/US9 with a double-lane roundabout. The proposal will impact ~4.17 acres of NYS DEC regulated Freshwater Wetlands R-13, R-14 and R-15 (all Class 1), for which the functions and benefits lost will be mitigated by creating ~6.43 acres of wetlands within the watershed.

Filed application documents, and Department draft permits where applicable, are available for inspection under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Law during normal business hours at the address of the contact person.