ADEC has prepared an APDES preliminary
draft permit for the Kodiak Island Borough Landfill Leachate Treatment Facility.
The Preliminary Draft Permit and associated documents are available to the
applicant for a 10-day review. Following the close of the 10-day applicant
review period, DEC will prepare a draft permit and fact sheet for a formal
30-day public review period. Public comments will be accepted during the formal
30-day review period. You can access the documents on DEC’s Wastewater Discharge
Authorization Program webpage at: http://www.dec.state.ak.us/water/wwdp/index.htm
ADEC Contact:
Melinda Smodey
Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation
Division of Water
Wastewater Discharge Authorization Program
555 Cordova Street
Anchorage, AK 99501
(907) 269-7564
Fax: (907) 334-2415
Melinda.Smodey@alaska.gov
Preliminary Draft
Permit Review:
Start
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2014
End
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Permit No.: AK0053481
Applicant: Kodiak Island Borough
Landfill Leachate Treatment Facility
1203 Monashka Bay Road, Kodiak, AK 99615
Proposed Project
and Location:
The Kodiak Island Borough (KIB) owns and operates
a municipal landfill located northwest of the city of Kodiak, Alaska. The KIB is expanding the landfill site laterally
to the northeast in planning for an additional 40 years of use and growth. The
lateral expansion includes installation of a liner in the expanded cells, a
leachate collection system, and construction of the leachate treatment facility.
Construction of the leachate treatment facility is expected to be completed in
2015. Leachate is liquid (rain or snow melt) that has passed through or emerged
from solid waste and contains soluble, suspended, or miscible materials removed
from the solid waste.
The landfill will discharge no more than 288,000
gallons per day of treated landfill leachate from active lined and inactive
unlined landfill cells, baler squeezings, and baler building washdown into
freshwater wetlands. Baler squeezings are liquids squeezed out of solid waste
during the baling process. Baler washdown is water produced from washing the
baler building and washing the baler. No mixing zone has been requested or
authorized so the permittee is required to meet effluent limits at the end of
the pipe. The treated leachate and baler wastestreams are discharged from an
outfall located at 57° 48’ 49” North Latitude and 152° 24’ 27” West Longitude.
The discharge exits the treatment facility into wetland cells filled with rock.
At the end of the wetland cells the discharge passes over a horizontal weir,
then flows to the head of a natural freshwater wetland system. The freshwater
wetlands enter an unnamed creek, travel north to the coastline of Kodiak Island
and enter marine water in Monashka Bay. The distance from the outfall to
Monashka Bay is approximately a half mile.
Administrative
Record:
The APDES preliminary draft permit, fact sheet, and
associated documents are available for public review at the ADEC offices
located in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Soldotna, and Wasilla. Please contact
the office of your choice to arrange for hard copies of the documents to be
available for your review.
555 Cordova Street 610
University Avenue 410
Willoughby Ave #303
Anchorage, AK
99501 Fairbanks, AK 99709 Juneau, AK 99811
907-269-6285 907-451-2100 907-465-5300
43335 Kalifornsky Beach Road 1700 E Bogard Road #B
Soldotna, AK
99615 Suite
#103
907-262-5210 Wasilla, AK 99654
907-376-1850
If you would like to see any additional supporting technical
documents, contact Melinda Smodey. The documents are also accessible from the DEC
website at: http://www.dec.state.ak.us/water/wwdp/index.htm
Disability Reasonable Accommodation Notice
The State of Alaska, Department of Environmental Conservation complies with
Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. If you are a person
with a disability who may need a special accommodation in order to participate
in this review, please contact Eric Hotchkiss at (907) 465-6171 or TDD Relay
Service 1-800-770-8973/TTY or dial 711 within 10 days of publication of this
notice to ensure that any necessary accommodations can be provided.