NEWS FROM THE DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
May 14, 2010
Vol. 40, No. 164
For more information, please contact: Michael Globetti, DNREC Public Affairs, 302-739-9902
Coastal Zone Act hearing May 19 on Wandendale regional wastewater treatment facility
DOVER – The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control will conduct a public hearing May 19 on Tidewater Environmental Services Inc.’s application for a Coastal Zone permit to build a regional wastewater treatment facility. The hearing will begin at 6 p.m. at the Lewes Fire Co.’s Station 3, 21914 John J. Williams Highway (Del. 24) in Lewes.
Tidewater’s application requests a permit for a 3.0-million-gallon-per-day wastewater treatment facility to serve mostly new residential growth west of Lewes. Privately-owned wastewater treatment facilities require a permit under the Delaware Coastal Zone Act. Tidewater also must apply to DNREC’s Ground Water Discharges Section for construction and operating permits for the wastewater facility; additional hearings to consider those permits may be held in the future.
Sussex County Council granted Tidewater a conditional use to locate the facility on 320 acres in December 2008.
The application, maps, related attachments and the required DNREC project assessment are available at http://www.dnrec.delaware.gov/Admin/CZA/Pages/default.aspx. The offset requirement under the Coastal Zone regulations is proposed to be met by enhanced nutrient removal accomplished through the proposed treatment technology compared to the effluent that would be expected from smaller wastewater systems or individual septic systems.
Written comments on the application may be submitted to Kevin.Coyle@state.de.us or by mail to Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, 89 Kings Highway, Dover, DE 19901, Attn. Kevin Coyle.
The Delaware Coastal Zone Act Program regulates existing heavy industrial activities, as well as new and existing manufacturing activities in Delaware’s Coastal Zone through a status decision and permit process.
