ENB Region 8 Completed Applications 03/28/2007

The Department has made a tentative determination to issue a Part 360 Solid Waste Management Permit for an existing transfer station owned and operated by Shanks Enterprises Inc. to increase the design capacity from 12,500 to 35,000 tons per year.  The increase exceeds the registration threshold and triggers a Part 360 permit.  The facility, located on 38 acres between Evergreen Street and and Spring Brook, handles municipal solid waste, recyclables, construction and demolition debris, and white goods.  No changes are proposed other than an increase in rate.  No onsite processing is conducted. The permit application is available for review and comment at NYSDEC Region 8 in Avon.  

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 Department has received an application for the discharge of 330 gallons per day of treated sanitary wastewater from an aerobic treatment unit and 50 linear feet of absorption trench with an overflow to the Town of Penfield storm sewer which eventually discharges to Thousand Acre Brook/Swamp, a Class C waterbody.  The applicant plans to replace a failing septic system and leachfield which currently discharges to groundwater on property located on Penfield Center Road in the Town of Penfield.

The Department has made a tentative determination to approve this application.  As a tentative determination, the Department is seeking public comments on the proposed regulated activity prior to making a final decision on permit issuance.  A draft permit is available for review at the Department's Region 8 office in Avon.

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 remove 150 lineal feet of metal culvert located within the approximately 300 lineal foot section of primary stream channel and then fill the channel in order to redirect the flow of water through the remaining secondary stream channel previously constructed by the NYSDOT in Fish Creek (ONT-66-12-52-23-45), a formerly stocked, Class C(t) stream located at 1 Elm St. in the Village of Bloomfield, Ontario County.  This former Agway site is intended to be redeveloped for commercial use.

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 modify an existing permitted 91.8 acre surface clay mine that provides material for the construction and operation of the Seneca Meadows landfill.  The modification is a change to the approved final grading plans that includes additional excavation within the eastern and northern portions of the mine, increasing the volume of materials available for landfill operations.  The proposed changes will affect approximately 55.1 acres.  All modifications will occur within the existing, approved life-of-mine (LOM) acreage, no other changes in the operation of the mine are proposed.  The project site is the applicant’s property immediately south of the existing landfill on the south side of Salcman Road, Waterloo, Seneca County.  The reviewed life-of-mine area is for this review is 91.8 acres.

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.