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 April 2026 NAR Project Locations

Project Descriptions:

1. Cambridge-Lee Industries, LLC, D-1970-120-5.  An application to renew the applicant's existing discharge of industrial process water from its copper pipe manufacturing facility. The facility will continue to discharge 0.0155 million gallons per day (mgd) of cooling tower blowdown and pretreatment system backwash via Outfall No. 001, and 0.929 mgd of cooling tower blowdown and noncontact cooling water (NCCW) via Outfall No. 002. The facility will continue to discharge industrial process water from two outfalls (Outfall Nos. 001 and 002) to the Schuylkill River at River Mile 92.47 - 86.5 (Delaware River - Schuylkill River), located in Ontelaunee Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
   
2. Pen Argyl Municipal Authority, D-1975-028 CP-6.  An application to renew the approval of the existing 0.95 mgd WWTP and its discharge. The WWTP will continue to discharge treated effluent to an unnamed tributary (UNT) of Waltz Creek at River Mile 190.65 - 4.7 - 4.1 - 0.6 (Delaware River - Martins Creek - Waltz Creek - UNT of Waltz Creek) via Outfall No. 001, 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 the Borough of Pen Argyl, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
   
3. Environmental Resource Holdings, LLC (ERH), D-1983-009-5.  An application to renew the approval of the existing Environmental Resource Holdings, LLC (formerly Occidental Chemical Corporation (OxyChem)) treatment system and associated discharge. The facility will continue to pump and treat up to 0.30 mgd of groundwater and stormwater before discharging to the Delaware River in Water Quality Zone 5 at River Mile 61.7, located in Delaware City, New Castle County, Delaware.
   
   
   
4. Grand Central Sanitary Landfill, Inc., D-1988-052-6.  An application to renew the approval of the docket holder’s existing 0.1 mgd leachate treatment plant (LTP) and its discharge. Treated effluent will continue to be discharged to an unnamed tributary (UNT) to Little Bushkill Creek at River Mile 184.1 - 8.5 - 8.1 - 0.1 (Delaware River - Bushkill Creek - Little Bushkill Creek - UNT Little Bushkill 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 Plainfield Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
   
   
   
5. First State Generation, LLC, D-2000-012 CP-3.  An application to renew the approval to withdraw up to 8,804 million gallons per month (mgm) of surface water from the Pumphouse 2 Intake and up to 18,296 mgm of surface water from the Pumphouse 3 Intake from the Delaware River (total combined allocation of 27,100 mgm) for non-contact cooling, cooling tower makeup, fire suppression and intake screen backwashing at the existing Edge Moor and Hay Road Energy Centers. The facility is located in the City of Wilmington and New Castle County, Delaware, and the intakes withdraw water at approximately River Mile 72.1 in Delaware River Water Quality Zone 5.
   
   

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