Following the close of a 30-daypublic notice period, ADEC has prepared an APDES proposed final permit for Kodiak Island Borough’s Landfill Leachate Treatment Plant. Prior to making the final decision to issue the permit, ADEC invites you to view the proposed final permit and associated documents. You can access the proposed final permit and associated documents at ADEC’s Wastewater Discharge Authorization Program web page at: http://www.dec.state.ak.us/water/wwdp/index.htm

Proposed Final Permit Review

Start Date: Friday,January 16, 2015

End Date: Monday,January 26, 2015

Permit No.: AK0053481

Proposed Project and Location:

The Kodiak Island Borough (KIB) owns and operatesa 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.

Determination:

The ADEC has determined to issue the above listed permit.

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

Administrative Record:

The APDES proposed final 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                 610University Avenue                        410Willoughby Ave #303

Anchorage, AK 99501           Fairbanks, AK 99709                        Juneau, AK 99811

907-269-6285                          907-451-2100                                      907-465-5300

43335 Kalifornsky Beach Road                                                         1700E Bogard Road #B

Soldotna, AK 99615                                                                          Suite#103

907-262-5210                                                                                      Wasilla, AK 99654

            907-376-1850

The documents are also accessible from the ADEC website at:

http://www.dec.state.ak.us/water/wwdp/index.htm