The Department of Environmental Protection will conduct a public meeting and hearing tonight to gather input on Homer City Generating Station’s application for modifications to the power company’s discharge obligations into Blacklick Creek.
A public meeting will start at 5:00 PM and that will be followed by the formal hearing which will start at 6:00 and last until testimony runs out or 7:30, whichever comes first. According to the DEP Fact Sheet regarding the application, “the proposed system will continue to operate as a closed-cycle recirculating system, with the cooling tower blowdown discharging primarily to Blacklick Creek…or, alternatively, to Two Lick Creek” (from the energy campus’s seven cooling towers.) Later in the document, the summary includes, “The cooling water will be recycled until its quality is no longer suitable for use…from its high concentration of minerals and total dissolved solids (TDS). Once its quality is degraded, it will be discharged via Outfall 027.”
Representatives of DEP’s Clean Water Program will be in attendance. If you want to submit written testimony, send an email to RA-EPNPDES_NWRO@pa.gov no later than midnight.
