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https://sussexcountyde.gov/sites/default/files/packets/CU%202258%20Bioeneregy%20Letters%20of%20Suppport%20as%20of%203.10.2021.pdf
MD - Dorchester Citizens for Planned Growth/ Friends of the Nanticoke River (Salisbury Univ.)/Wicomico Environmental Trust
NJ - Rutgers Agricultural Experiment Station Director
DE Dept. of Ag - Michael Scuse
DE Poultry Industry
5 State Senators - Hocker, Pettyjohn, Lopez, Bryant Richardson, David Wilson
2 State Representatives - Daniel Short and Timothy Dukes
SEDAC (Sussex Econ. Dev. Action Committee)
Chesapeake Utilities.
https://sussexcountyde.gov/sites/default/files/packets/CU%202258%20Bioenergy%20Letters%20of%20Opposition%20FULL%20as%20of%203.10.21.pdf
Land Use Classification: Industrial and Agricultural
Proposed Use(s): No change from existing use (micro nutrient plant)
Square footage or any proposed buildings or number of units (all buildings are existing)
"Will generate fewer than 50 vehicle trips per day."
Where did the number come from?
50 passenger cars, pick-up trucks, gas tankers?
No Sewer connection!
"Any future additions, alterations or improvement to the Site Plan shall be subject to an application and public hearing to amend this Conditional Use."
(8) Water and wastewater will be provided by proposed private well and septic system.
"220 plants built, operation and maintenance of 150 plants"
What is the status of the 70 plants?
So, some wastewater treatment plants are using AD. Why then the Sussex County use it?
Local farmers may not have to dispose the waste in their own land.
How about the waste out of this facility? Other than the compost and pellets, there are still some waste to be disposed of. Where do they dispose this residue from all the wastes from all over Delmarva, and possibly North Carolina?
What happens to the water and air in Blades?
Pelletizing plant is not in service any longer.
Where is the Wastewater pretreatment system? What happens after pretreatment?
Vehicles using:
Employees (how many?)
Feedstock delivery - what type of vehicles, how many/how often
Finished compost pick up - what type of vehicles, how many/how often
Treated Wastewater transport - what type of vehicles, how many/how often
CNG - what type of vehicles, how many/how often
And, all these are expected to generate less than 50 vehicle trips per day - based on DelDOT (page 12)
Construction 40-45
Long term - roughly 30 additional employees for the future AD facility and 11 for the compost facility.
Future - environmental technicians and microbiologists.
Contracting with local vendors for transportation, specialized equipment maintenance, and other regularly performed services.
40 trucks per day of organic feedstock material delivered to the site for both the AD and the composting facility.
5 trucks per day to move finished digestate solids and/or compost.
"Total vehicle trips per are expected at less than 200 and therefore a traffic impact analysis was not required by DelDOT"
Questions - from page 74:
Are the 40 trucks delivering the feedstock material are to be considered the same as the passenger vehicle trips?
How about employees?
CNC tankers?
Treated Wastewater transfers?