The Commission recently received applications from the sponsors of the following projects for approval pursuant to Section 3.8, Article 11, and/or Section 10.3 of the Delaware River Basin Compact.

These projects currently are under review by the Commission staff in consultation with other public agencies.

Individuals or organizations having a special interest in any projects or information relating to a project's impacts on water and related land resources of the Delaware River Basin are invited to submit written comments to the Water Resource Management Branch.

Please refer to the appropriate docket number, listed below, on all correspondence. Public hearings as may be required for these projects will be announced at a later date in accordance with the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure. 

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Map of September 2024 NAR Project Locations

Project Descriptions:

1. Brookhaven Borough, D-1966-096 CP-6. An application to renew the approval of an existing 0.25 mgd WWTP and its discharge. The effluent limitations were determined using a discharge rate of 0.192 mgd. The WWTP will continue to discharge treated effluent to Chester Creek at River Mile 82.93 - 4.3 (Delaware River - Chester Creek) via Outfall No. 001 in Brookhaven Borough, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
2. Escape Property Owners Association, D-1972-125 CP-2. An application to approve the proposed replacement of the docket holder's existing WWTP. The proposed WWTP facility will utilize an activated sludge treatment process with chlorine disinfection and other associated upgrades. The WWTP will continue to discharge up to 0.098 MGD of treated effluent to UNT of Lake Wallenpaupack at River Mile 277.7 - 15.7 - 0.08 (Delaware River - Lackawaxen River - Wallenpaupack Creek) via Outfall 001, located in Palmyra Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania, within the drainage area classified as the Upper Delaware Special Protection Waters (SPW).
   
   
3. Knoll, Inc., D-1974-162 -6. An application to renew the approval of the existing 0.0715 mgd IWTP and its discharges of treated industrial process water and non-contact cooling water. The IWTP will continue to discharge to Perkiomen Creek at River Mile 92.5 - 32.3 - 28.5 (Delaware River - Schuylkill River - Perkiomen Creek) in Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
4. Bensalem Racing Assoc. and Keystone Turf Club, Inc., tenants in common, D-1985-072 -5. An application to renew the approval of an existing groundwater withdrawal of up to 10.60 mgm to irrigate the applicant's track and infield at the Parx Race Track from existing Wells 1, 2, 3 and 4 completed in Wissahickon Schist. The project wells are located in the Lower Neshaminy Creek Watershed in Bensalem Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
5. Constellation Energy, D-1992-066 CP-4. An application to renew approval of the applicant's existing 3.045 mgd Eddystone Generating Station IWTP and its discharges of treated industrial wastewater effluent and up to 832.2 mgd of non-contact cooling water (NCCW). Treated industrial effluent will continue to comingle with NCCW prior to discharge to Delaware River Water Quality Zone 4 at River Mile 84.8, in the Borough of Eddystone, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
6. Tilden Township, D-1993-027 -4. An application to renew the approval of a groundwater withdrawal of up to 5.17 mgm from existing Wells 1, 2, and 5 for use in the docket holder's public water system. The wells are completed in the Hamburg Sequence in the Pigeon Creek-Schuylkill River Watershed in Tilden Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
7. Bucks County Water and Sewer Authority, D-1993-076 CP-5. An application to renew the approval of an existing discharge from the 1.10 mgd Upper Dublin WWTP. The WWTP will continue to discharge treated wastewater effluent to the Pine Run Creek, a tributary of Sandy Run, at River Mile 92.47 - 12.5 - 10.6 - 1.1 - 0.7 (Delaware River - Schuylkill River - Wissahickon Creek - Sandy Run Creek - Pine Run Creek), in Upper Dublin Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
8. Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc., D-2000-024 -3. An application to renew the approval of the applicant's existing 0.175 mgd Willistown Woods WWTP and its discharge. The WWTP  will continue to discharge treated effluent to an unnamed tributary (UNT) of Hunters Run at River Mile 83.8 - 16.5 - 0.6 - 0.5 (Delaware River - Ridley Creek - Hunters Run - UNT Hunters Run) in Willistown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
9. Upper Hanover Authority, D-2004-017 CP-5. An application to renew the approval of the existing 0.098 mgd Perkiomen WWTP and its discharge. The existing WWTP will continue to discharge treated effluent to Perkiomen Creek at River Mile 92.5 - 31.2 - 26.5 (Delaware River - Schuylkill River - Perkiomen Creek), via Outfall No. 001, in Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
10. Marcus Hook Energy, L.P., D-2008-021 CP-4. An application to renew approval of the existing discharge of up to 4.32 mgd of cooling tower blowdown from the Marcus Hook Cogeneration Facility. The facility will continue to discharge to Water Quality Zone 4 of the Delaware River at River Mile 78.7 via Outfall No. 001, in Marcus Hook Borough, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
    
    
11. Lehigh Carbon Community College, D-2009-025 CP-4. An application to renew the approval of the existing 0.036 mgd WWTP. The WWTP will continue to discharge treated effluent to an unnamed tributary (UNT) of Jordan Creek at River Mile 183.7 - 16.3 - 14 - 1.3 (Delaware River - Lehigh River - Jordan Creek - UNT Jordan Creek) via Outfall No. 001, located within the drainage area of the section of the main stem Delaware River known as the Lower Delaware, which the Commission has classified as Special Protection Waters, in North Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
    
    
12. Springdale Gardens, LP, D-2009-044 -4. An application to renew the existing 0.0126 mgd Springdale Estates WWTP and its discharge. The existing WWTP will continue to discharge treated effluent to an unnamed tributary (UNT) to Mahoning Creek at River Mile 183.66 - 42.5 - 7.0 - 0.44 (Delaware River - Lehigh River - Mahoning Creek - UNT Mahoning Creek) via Outfall No. 001, located within the drainage area to the Lower Delaware, classified as Special Protection Waters (SPW), in Mahoning Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.
    
    
13. Minersville Borough Municipal Authority, D-2014-001 CP-2. An application to renew the approval an existing surface water withdrawal of up to 35.371 mgm to supply the applicant's public water supply distribution system from existing surface water Intake No. 3 on the Dyer Run Reservoir. The requested allocation is not an increase from the previous allocation. The surface water intake is located in the West Branch Schuylkill River Watershed in Cass Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
    
    
14. Pocono Mountains Industries. Inc., D-2019-008 -2. An application to approve the applicant's existing 0.014 mgd WWTP and its discharge. The WWTP will continue to discharge treated effluent to Red Run at River Mile 183.7 - 83.5 - 11.4 - 6.4 - 3.6 (Delaware River -Lehigh River - Tobyhanna Creek - Upper Tuckhannock Creek - Red Run), within the drainage area of the section of the non-tidal Delaware River known as the Lower Delaware, which the Commission has classified as Special Protection Waters, in Coolbaugh Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania.
    
    
15. New Jersey Economic Development Authority, D-2023-002 -1. An application for review of the dredging of the Delaware River for Phase 2 of the New Jersey Wind Port, an expansion of the marshalling port currently under construction to support offshore wind energy development in New Jersey and throughout the eastern United States. Phase 2 is intended to support the simultaneous marshalling of two offshore wind development projects as well as manufacturing supply chain support. The project includes the development of a second marshalling facility, manufacturing support facilities and redevelopment of existing portions of the Salem and Hope Creek Generating Station and former USACE Artificial Island CDF Cell No. 3, installation of new wharf structures and dredging of new berthing pockets. Approximately 3,000,000 cubic yards of dredged material will be excavated to accommodate the modifications to the existing approach channel (deepening) and expanded berthing pockets.  The project is located at River Mile 52 of the Delaware River in Lower Alloways Creek Township, Salem County, New Jersey.

Contact: David Kovach, P.G.
Manager, Project Review
(609) 883-9500, ext. 264