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 are currently 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 2025 NAR Project Locations

Project Descriptions:

1. Gulph Mills Country Club, D-1966-217-3. An application to renew the approval of an existing groundwater and surface water withdrawal of up to 12.28 mgm for irrigation of the applicant's golf course from existing Well 1 and existing Pond 1, which is a man-made impoundment located on the Matsunk Creek. Well 1 is completed in the Conestoga 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 Matsunk Creek Watershed in Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
2. Philadelphia (City of), D-1970-052 CP-3. An application to renew the approval of the existing 210 mgd WWTP and its discharge, and to approve a modification of the WWTP facilities. The modification consists of an additional Preliminary Treatment Facility (PTF) for the purpose of increasing the wet weather flow capacity. The WWTP will remain designed for 210 mgd and continue to discharge treated effluent to Water Quality Zone 3 of the Delaware River at River Mile 104.2 in the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
3. Spring City Borough, D-1974-061 CP-7. An application to renew the approval of the existing 0.61 mgd WWTP and its discharge. The WWTP will continue to discharge treated effluent to the Schuylkill River at River Mile 92.47 – 41.3 (Delaware River – Schuylkill River) in Spring City Borough, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
4. Pennsylvania American Water Company, D-1990-027 CP-3. An application to renew the approval of an existing surface water withdrawal with an increase in allocation from 6.6 mgd (295.43 mgm) to 9.53 mgd (295.43 mgm) to supply the applicant's Royersford District public water supply distribution system from an existing surface water intake on the Schuylkill River. The applicant is also constructing the Lock 57 water treatment plant (WTP) and a new intake at the facility to replace its Shady Lane WTP and intake at that location. Plans are to have the Lock 57 WTP in operation in 2027. The surface water intake is located in East Vincent Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
5. Pennsylvania American Water Company, D-1992-003 CP-4. An application to approve modifications and upgrades to the existing 7.1 mgd WWTP. The proposed construction is part of a Corrective Action Plan and includes modifications to the existing influent pumping station and the addition of a new influent pumping station, dual force mains, diversion chambers and flow equalization tanks. The WWTP will continue to discharge treated effluent to the Schuylkill River at River Mile 92.5-65.3 (Delaware River – Schuylkill River) in Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
6. Wheelabrator Falls Company, LP, D-2019-003-2. An application to modify the approval of an existing 53-megawatt waste-to energy electric generating facility and approve a consumptive use allocation of 27.90 mgm of water purchased from the Township of Falls Authority for industrial cooling and processes. The current docket approved a temporary consumptive use allocation of 27.90 mgm that expired following the installation and operation of equipment needed to complete a cooling tower water conservation project. The water conservation equipment was not installed. The facility is located in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
7. BAE Systems, D-2025-003-1. An application to approve a groundwater withdrawal associated with the remediation of groundwater contaminated with volatile organic compounds (VOCs) with an allocation of 4.062 mgm from existing Wells PW-19, RW-1, RI-20S, EW-1, EW-2 and EW-3. The wells are completed in the Brunswick and Lockatong Formations. The groundwater is treated by air stripping followed by a secondary treatment through media absorption before it is discharged via Outfall 1 to an unnamed tributary of the West Branch Neshaminy Creek at River Mile 115.51 – 35.0 - 3.35 - 0.49 (Delaware River – Neshaminy Creek - West Branch Neshaminy Creek - Unnamed tributary of the West Branch Neshaminy Creek). The project is located in the Commission's designated Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground Water Protected Area (SEPA GWPA) in the West Branch Neshaminy Creek Watershed, Lansdale Borough, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
8. Penn Engineering and Manufacturing Corporation, P-1986-031-5. An application to renew the approval of an existing groundwater withdrawal of up to 1.34 mgm to supply the applicant's manufacturing facility from existing Well G. Well G 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 North Branch Neshaminy Creek Watershed, in Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
   
   

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