Project Review: Notice of Applications Received (NAR)
March 2025

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. 

Map of March 2025 NAR Project Locations


Project Descriptions:

  1. Pennsylvania American Water Company, D-1988-089 CP-4.  An application to renew approval of the applicant's existing 0.75 mgd Saw Creek WWTP and its discharge. The WWTP will continue to discharge treated effluent to Saw Creek at River Mile 226.9 - 3.6 - 0.9 (Delaware River - Bush Kill - Saw Creek) and is located in Lehman Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania in Middle Delaware Special Protection Waters.

  2. Maidencreek Township Authority, D-1991-058 CP-7.  An application to approve an increase of an existing groundwater allocation of 23.46 million gallons per month (mgm) to 68.10 mgm from wells 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7 for public water supply. The increase in allocation is needed to supply the demands from a bulk sale of water to the Muhlenberg Municipal Authority through a proposed interconnection. The docket holder's wells are completed in the Allentown, Epler and Ontelaunee Formations in the Lower Maiden Creek and Willow Creek Watersheds in Maidencreek Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

  3. Blue Bell Country Club, D-1993-059-3.  An application to renew the approval of an existing groundwater and surface water withdrawal of up to 6.3 mgm for irrigation of the applicant's golf course from existing Well Nos. 2, 3, 5 and existing Ponds Nos. 1 and 2. Wells Nos. 2 and 3 are completed in the Stockton Formation and Well No. 5 is completed in the Lockatong Formation. The requested allocation is not an increase from the previous allocation. The project is located in the Commission's designated Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground Water Protected Area (SEPA GWPA)  in the Stony Creek Watershed in Whitpain Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

  4. Village of Wurtsboro, D-1994-025 CP-3.  An application to renew the approval of an allocation of 10.4 mgm of groundwater from existing Wells 3, 4 and 5 for public water supply. Well 3 is screened in unconsolidated alluvial deposits and Wells 4 and 5 are completed in the Onondaga Limestone and undifferentiated Lower Devonian and Silurian bedrock aquifers, respectively. The project is located in the Basher Kill Watershed in the Village of Wurtsboro, Sullivan County, New York within the drainage area of the section of the main stem Delaware River known as the Middle Delaware, which the Commission has classified as Special Protection Waters.

  5. Borough of Bally, D-1994-044 CP-5.  An application to renew and modify the approval of the existing Borough of Bally WWTP and its discharge including a re-rate of the WWTP from 0.5 mgd to 0.612 mgd with no modifications to the existing treatment facilities. The WWTP will continue to discharge treated effluent to West Branch Perkiomen Creek at River Mile 92.47 - 32.08 - 18.65 - 5.20 - 3.55 (Delaware River - Schuylkill River - Perkiomen Creek - Green Lane Reservoir - West Branch Perkiomen Creek) via Outfalls Nos. 001 and 002, in Washington Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

  6. LMBE Project Company, LLC, D-1999-054-2.  An application to renew the approval of an existing 600 megawatt (MW) electric generating facility and approve an increase in consumptive use. Water is supplied by the adjacent Martins Creek Energy Facility intake on the Delaware River. The applicant requested to increase its water allocation and consumptive use from 4.84 mgd to 5.976 mgd. The increase is due to the use of power augmentation equipment to increase electric generation efficiency. The use of this equipment requires additional water demands. The increase in water use will not require an increase in the existing approved surface water allocation of 785.54 million gallons per month at the Martins Creek Facility. The project is located in Lower Mount Bethel Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania within Lower Delaware Special Protection Waters.

  7. Ontelaunee Power Operating Company, LLC, D-2000-014-2.  An application to renew the approval of an existing 544 megawatt (MW) electric generating facility and its associated consumptive use of water and discharge. The facility will continue to consumptively use up to a maximum of 124 mgm of water purchased from the Reading Area Water Authority. The electric generating facility is located in Ontelaunee Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

  8. Artesian Water Company, D-2002-034 CP-5.  An application to consolidate Docket Nos. D-2002-034 CP-4 and D-2003-022 CP-4 into a single docket which makes up the docket holder's New Castle County Regional System. The application will also renew the approval of an existing import project of up to 3.369 mgd from the Chesapeake Bay Basin from the Old County Road, Chesapeake City Road, Eastern States and Choptank and Bethel Church well fields, and up to 3.0 mgd from the Susquehanna River Basin from an interconnection with Chester Water Authority to augment water supply to the applicant's public water supply system. The applicant also requests to renew the approval to withdraw up to 770.93 mgm of groundwater to supply the applicant's public water supply distribution system. The docket holder is not requesting an increase in groundwater withdrawal allocation. The project's existing groundwater withdrawals, except for the Broad Run PA Well are approved by the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) and will continue to be regulated by DNREC in accordance with the Administrative Agreement (AA) between the Commission and the State of Delaware. The water supply system and wellfields are located in New Castle County, Delaware and New Garden Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

  9. Buckingham Township, D-2004-015 CP-5.  An application to renew the approval of the docket holder's existing 0.236 mgd Buckingham Village WWTP and its seasonal discharge to Lahaska Creek and to land via the existing Furlong lagoon treatment system which includes three sets of spray irrigation fields, referred to as the Kaplan, Coles, and Lindquist Spray Fields. Treated effluent not discharged to the Furlong spray fields will continue to be discharged to Lahaska Creek at River Mile 115.6 - 23.7 - 5.7 - 0.4 (Delaware River - Neshaminy Creek - Mill Creek- Lahaska Creek) in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

  10. Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, D-2005-008 CP-4.  An application to renew the approval of the existing 0.06 mgd Hickory Run State Park WWTP and its discharge. The WWTP will continue to discharge treated effluent to Hickory Run at River Mile 183.7 - 67.3 - 1.7 (Delaware River - Lehigh River - Hickory Run) via Outfall No. 001, within the drainage area to Lower Delaware Special Protection Waters (SPW), in Kidder Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.

  11. Wallenpaupack Area School District, D-2009-027 CP-4.  An application to renew the approval for the existing 0.10 mgd New Foundland Elementary School WWTP and its discharge. The existing WWTP will continue to discharge treated effluent to Wallenpaupack Creek, upstream from Lake Wallenpaupack at River Mile 277.7 - 15.8 - 1.4 - 12.7 - 7.8 (Delaware River - Lackawaxen River - Wallenpaupack Creek - Lake Wallenpaupack - Wallenpaupack Creek) via Outfall No. 001, in the drainage area to the Upper Delaware Special Protection Waters (SPW), located in Dreher Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania.

  12. Schuylkill Valley Sewer Authority, D-2012-029 CP-4.  An application to renew approval of the applicant's existing 0.55 mgd Schuylkill Valley Sewer Authority WWTP and its discharge, and to approve a modification to the service area of the WWTP. The modification consists of the addition of wastewater from the Blythe Township Recycling and Demolition Landfill. The WWTP will remain designed for 0.55 mgd and continue to discharge treated effluent to the Schuylkill River at River Mile 92.47 - 127.6 (Delaware River - Schuylkill River) in Blythe Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.

  13. Camp Hachshara-Moshava of NY, Inc. dba Camp Moshava, D-2015-014-3.  An application to renew the approval of the applicant's existing 0.036 mgd WWTP and its discharge. The WWTP will continue to discharge treated effluent to an unnamed tributary of Indian Orchard Brook at River Mile 277.7 - 23.1 - 1.8 - 0.5  (Delaware River - Lackawaxen River - Indian Orchard Brook - UNT Indian Orchard Brook) located within the drainage area of the section of the main stem Delaware River known as the Upper Delaware, which the Commission has classified as Special Protection Waters, in Berlin Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania.

  14. Brookmont Health Care Center, D-2018-004-2.  An application to approve the existing 0.040 mgd Brookmont Health Care Center WWTP and its discharge. The WWTP will continue to discharge treated effluent to the Pohopoco Creek at River Mile 183.7 - 40.9 - 6.3 - 6.5 - 9.2 (Delaware River - Lehigh River - Pohopoco Creek - Beltzville Reservoir - Pohopoco Creek), via Outfall No. 001, 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 Chestnuthill Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania.

  15. Bedminster Municipal Authority, P-2004-032-3.  An application to renew the approval of an existing groundwater withdrawal of up to 2.747 mgm to supply the applicant's Pennland Farms public water supply distribution system from existing Wells PW-1 and PW-2. The requested system allocation is not an increase from the previous allocation. Wells PW-1 and PW-2 are completed in the Brunswick and Lockatong Formations. The project is located in the Commission's designated Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground Water Protected Area (SEPA GWPA) in the Deep Run Watershed in Bedminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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