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 May 2023 NAR Project Locations

Project Descriptions:

1. Forest Park Water, D-1965-076 CP-13. An application to renew the approval of an existing discharge of up to 2.0 mgd of filter backwash from the Forest Park Water Filtration Plant (WFP). The WFP will continue to discharge treated effluent to Pine Run through Outfall Nos. 1 and 2 at River Mile 115.63 – 40.0 – 0.1 (Delaware River – Neshaminy Creek – Pine Run) and River Mile 115.63 – 40.0 – 0.2 (Delaware River – Neshaminy Creek – Pine Run) in Chalfont Borough, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
2. Quakertown Borough, D-1984-026 CP-3. An application to approve the proposed upgrade to the applicant's existing 4.0 WWTP. The applicant proposes to upgrade the treatment system and increase the annual average flow from 3.1 mgd to 3.84 mgd, and its hydraulic flow from 4.0 mgd to 5.0 mgd. The WWTP will continue to discharge treated effluent to Tohickon Creek at River Mile 157.0 - 23.5 (Delaware River - Tohickon Creek), in Richland Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, located within the dranage area to the classified Lower Delaware Special Protection Waters (SPW).
   
   
3. Reading City, D-1986-028 CP-5. An application to renew the approval of the applicant's existing 20.5 mgd WWTP and its discharges. The WWTP will continue to discharge treated industrial and municipal effluent to the Schuykill River at River Mile 92.47 - 72.8 (Delaware River - Schuylkill River), in Reading City, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
4. Whitehall Township Authority, D-2000-009 CP-3. An application to renew the approval of an existing groundwater withdrawal of up to 32.03 million gallons per month (mgm) of water from six existing wells for use in the applicant's existing public water supply system. The requested allocation is a reduction in the previously approved allocation of 57.38 mgm. The wells are completed in the Allentown and Epler Formations in the Coplay Creek, Lower Jordan Creek and the Lehigh River-Delaware River Watersheds, within the drainage area of the Lower Delaware, which the Commission has classified as Special Protection Waters, in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
5. Wernersville Municpal Authority, D-2001-017 CP-3. An application to renew the approval of an existing groundwater withdrawal to supply up to 17.3 million gallons per month (mgm) of groundwater to the applicant's public water system from existing Wells Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, the Tunnel Well and 11 spring sources and to renew the approval of a transfer of up to 12.679 mgm of water (average of 0.409 million gallons per day) from Western Berks Water Authority. The requested groundwater allocation is a decrease from the allocation of 30.866 mgm contained in its current approval. The applicant's wells are competed in the Hardyston Formation, the Richland Formation and granitic gneiss within the drainage area of Spring Creek in the Tulpehocken Creek Watershed in South Heidelberg Township and Wernersville Borough, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
6. Slatington Borough, D-2003-015 CP-4. An application to renew the approval for the applicant's existing 1.5 mgd WWTP and its discharge. The WWTP will continue to discharge treated effluent to the Lehigh River at River Mile 183.67 - 33.7 (Delaware River - Lehigh River), in Slatington Borough, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, within the drainage area to the classified Lower Delaware Special Protection Waters (SPW).
   
   
7. Tyler Hill Camp, Inc, D-2017-001 -2. An application to approve the applicant's existing 0.030 mgd WWTP and its discharge. The WWTP will continue to discharge to Laurel Lake, which flows to an unnamed tributary (UNT) of North Branch Calkins Creek at River Mile 295.8 - 0.7 - 4.0 - 1.2 - 0.3 (Delaware River - Calkins Creek - North Branch Calkins Creek - UNT North Branch Calkins Creek - Laurel Lake) located in Damascus Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, within the drainage area of the section of the non-tidal Delaware River known as the Upper Delaware, which is classified as Special Protection Waters.

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