17.0 INFRASTRUCTURE AND ENERGY

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1 17.0 INFRASTRUCTURE AND ENERGY The Project would place demands on the existing infrastructure systems for supplying water, treating sewage, providing energy and disposing of solid waste. The Project would also increase the need for stormwater management, but this will not affect the Town of Thompson since all stormwater management would be provided on-site. This section analyzes the ability of the existing infrastructure systems to accommodate the potential demands of the Project EXISTING CONDITIONS Water Supply As set forth in Section 12, "Groundwater Resources," the Site has historically obtained potable water from a series of on-site wells. Current water usage at the Sports Academy Site has not been calculated by the camp Sanitary Sewer The Site is served by an on-site wastewater disposal system, consisting of a series of septic tanks, an open sand bed filter with under drain collection, chlorine disinfection and surface outfall to a tributary ditch to Anawana Lake. There is no future intent to utilize the existing on-site system, which will be removed. The Kutsher's property is currently not within a town or any other municipal sewage collection district. Town of Thompson property in the vicinity of Anawana Lake Road and Fraser Road is currently within the town sewer district, a distance of approximately 1/4 mile from the Site Energy New York State Electric and Gas (NYSEG) maintains an electric transmission line with a 12 KV capacity Solid Waste Refuse and solid waste currently generated on the subject property (Sports Academy, etc.) is disposed of at the Sullivan County Landfill located on East Broadway in the Village of Monticello. This facility is operated by the Sullivan County Department of Public Works and has a permit that has been issued by the NYSDEC - Division of Solid Waste. The landfill is currently in its fourth year of a 10-year plan for reaching capacity, after which refuse exportation to disposal sites out of Sullivan County was scheduled to commence. However, the Draft Environmental Assessment 17-1

2 Sullivan County Legislature passed a Resolution in January 2002 to expand the landfill area by approximately more acres, extending the life of the landfill by at least years and created up to 7 million cubic yards of additional capacity. The maximum refuse acceptance rate permitted by the NYS- DEC is 4,000 tons/week for 9 months each year and 5,500 tons/week for the 3 months between Memorial Day and Labor Day. This is equivalent to a permitted annual disposal limit of approximately 215,000 tons. The Site has historically generated significant tonnage of municipal solid waste through the Kutsher's Sports Academy, but tonnage data has not been maintained by the camp. The total Kutsher's Hotel/Country Club/Sports Academy complex generates about 453 tons of solid waste per year and about 34 tons of recyclables Stormwater Management Stormwater management is outlined in the Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (Appendix Vol. II, Tab 24). There are no detention/retention basins, and all Site waters run-off to Anawana Lake and other low areas on the property through earthen ditches NO ACTION ALTERNATIVE In the future without the Project, it is anticipated that there would be no significant change in the current demand for the services identified above. The Sports Academy will continue to operate as it has historically. The sanitary system for the 975 campers will continue to discharge through a sand filter near Anawana Lake and will continue to generate solid waste and the demand for other municipal services consistent with its historic demand PROBABLE IMPACTS OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT Water Supply The Project will require, for the preferred alternative water source, a water line to be constructed from a transmission main approximately 2.5 miles from the Site. Water supply needs for the Project are discussed in Section 12. The source of water, the Artesian Spring Water Company, has indicated that it has capacity for the Project (see Figure 12-1) Sanitary Sewer The preferred alternative is to have wastewater flows convey to the Thompson-Kiamesha Lake Draft Environmental Assessment 17-2

3 Treatment Facility, located on Old Thompsonville Road, with a capacity of 2 million gallons per day. That system, operated by the Town of Thompson is fully permitted by NYSDEC (SPDES # NY ). The facility is currently operating at about one-third (33%) capacity (see Figure 17-3). The treatment plant anticipates that even if the Concord project is fully built and adds 400,000 gallons per day of wastewater to the plant, there will still be 1,000,000 gallons of reserve capacity at the plant. The Tribe worked closely with Park Place Facility planners and managers who have experience with hotel and casino facilities in Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi to calculate wastewater needs for the Project. Based on analysis of a number of years of sewer bills at these facilities and empirical data from a number of local hotels and restaurants, the Tribe projects a need to discharge 400,000 gallons per day of wastewater to the plant. Even if the Concord project is built, which is far from certain, the increase of effluent to the plant from the Project will still leave the plant with about one-third (1/3) of its capacity unused. Since the treatment plant is fully permitted, the Project will not have an adverse impact on surface water and will not require further permitting. Without the Project, the plant is presenting significant general debt to the Town of Thompson residents because it is underutilized. The Project will be beneficial to the Town in this regard. Two alternatives have been presented for routing the sanitary sewerline from the Site on Anawana Lake to existing town collection system piping. Both options are of similar expense. "Route #1" would travel south from the Site along Anawana Lake Road to the west entrance into Patio Homes Development; to connect into existing collection system piping that was not designed for additional flows. Sewerage flows would be routed through an existing, undersized sewage pump station to an interceptor line along NYS Route 42 and then to the Kiamesha Sewage Treatment Plant. The undersized pump station would require replacement. The preferred "Route #2" will convey wastewater flows in a southeasterly direction from the Site through a currently wooded utility easement to a new sewage pump station adjacent to Fraser Road. Flows will be pumped in an easterly direction along Fraser Road to a new 10" diameter gravity sewer main, which will continue east to NYS Route 42, where connection into an existing 18" diameter interceptor main will be made. These flows will then be conveyed by gravity south along Route 42 and Draft Environmental Assessment 17-3

4 around Kiamesha Lake to an existing utility easement and into the town treatment plant. See Sewerline Route Maps #1 & 2 (Figures 17-1 and 17-2). The Town of Thompson has said they have adequate wastewater treatment capacity (Figure 17-3). Mitigation - The preferred "Route #2" for the sanitary sewerline from the Site will include a flow equalization structure located between the Site and the proposed sewage pump station on Fraser Road to reduce peak daily flow volumes to the pump station and, therefore, reduce pump horsepower requirements and corresponding electrical operating costs. The proposed pump station will be sized to accommodate private properties adjacent to the Site in the Fraser Road - Anawana Lake Road area and permit future expansion of the town sewer district to include those parcels. This will alleviate existing on-site septic system problems and provide for sound environmental management of wastewaters produced by economic growth throughout the affected areas. Draft Environmental Assessment 17-4

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8 Energy NYSEG has indicated that reconstruction and improvements to electrical transmission facilities will be necessary to operate the Project. This will include upgrading the Lanahans Road substation equipment, and installing new and heavier transmission lines between that station and the Site, a distance of approximately two miles. The utility company has indicated that it may also consider construction of a new substation in the vicinity of Kutsher's Resort, to facilitate an adequate electric service to the Site. Back-up emergency electrical service will be provided by four 1,800 KW diesel generators for peak demand load of 5,000 KW. Diesel fuel will be tanked in the generator, and will not require off-site storage. Initially, the Project will rely upon propane as the heating source. Two companies are currently proposing the construction and installation of natural gas pipelines to Sullivan County, including the Project area. Once these pipelines are installed and operational, the Project will rely primarily upon natural gas. There are currently 144 bus/rv stalls, as shown on the Site Master Plan (Figure 1-9) with 120 stalls dedicated for buses and 24 for Recreational Vehicles (RVs). All of the stalls will be equipped with electrical power hook-ups so the engines of the buses and RVs, in order to remain warm, will not have to constantly run. The central plant facility, as shown on Figure 1-9, can generally be described as a central utility distribution plant and will provide all heating and cooling generation for the complex. The plant will employ the use of high-efficiency equipment shared among the structures to minimize energy consumption, maximize operating efficiency, and lower emissions and noise levels. The structure will house multiple water-cooled chillers and their associated cooling towers. The chillers will be high-efficiency centrifugal type machines to provide chilled water to the casino and hotel facilities on Site. The structure will also house multiple high-efficiency gas-fired hot water boilers that will provide hot water for space heating purposes to the casino and hotel facilities. Chilled water for cooling and hot water for heating will be piped to the "client" structures via underground mains. The chillers will demand 50,000 gallons per day of water, which is figured in to, and is part of, the total 450,000 gallon per day water demand for the Project. Draft Environmental Assessment 17-8

9 The use of natural gas or LP gas is provided for with the possibility of using fuel oil should market conditions make it necessary. The circulating pumps will also be located in the central plant. Control and metering functions will be part of the installation to allow efficient allocation of the utilities to each "client" structure. The grouping of equipment in a central plant will allow the equipment output capacities to be closely tailored to the combined loads of the site, enabling the operating controls to stage heating and cooling equipment into service at its optimal loading for energy efficiency Solid Waste Based upon Park Place's experience with the hotel/casino resort complex at Tunica, Mississippi, the expected weekly rate of solid waste generation from the Project will be approximately 75 tons per week. The Tribe anticipates that at least 10% of this waste will be separated and recycled. There is more than adequate capacity at the Sullivan County landfill for this waste stream Stormwater Management Stormwater will be managed as detailed in Section 13.4, and as set forth in Figures 1-9 and Draft Environmental Assessment 17-9