Western Wake Wastewater System

Western Wake Regional Wastewater Management Facilities

Page last updated 08/02/2010.

7/28/2010 - Signed permit

7/21/2010 - A decision has been made concerning this request for permit.

This page contains links to environmental documents and notices provided to the Corps related to the proposed project to build the Western Wake Regional Wastewater facility. An independent third party prepares the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), paid by the applicant and approved by the Corps of Engineers, as required by Corps of Engineers policy outlined in Regulatory Guidance Letter (RGL 05-08).

Permit Application (revisions 12/2009)

DOWNLOAD THE FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (follow the link to the download page)

The Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) is available for download as reported in the December 18, 2009 Federal Register website. The FEIS discloses information on the project as a whole, which includes the Western Wake Facilities addressed in this permit request along with the 3 related projects which will be addressed in future permit request from the Towns of Apex, Holly Springs and Cary.

Project Summary:

The Town of Cary, acting as the lead agency for the Western Wake Regional Wastewater Management Facilities Project Partners (Partners), requests a Section 404 permit from the US Army Corps of Engineers to construct regional wastewater pumping, conveyance, treatment, and discharge facilities to serve the Towns of Apex, Cary, Holly Springs and Morrisville, as well as the Wake County portion of Research Triangle Park (RTP South) (service area), North Carolina. The Towns have cooperated together to develop the proposal and permit request for the Western Wake Regional Wastewater Management Facilities (Western Wake Facilities), and the plans call for 3 additional permit requests from the individual towns for construction of other projects related to the Western Wake Facilities. All anticipated future permit requests have been described in the FEIS for the proposed project. This permit request consists of the construction of a regional wastewater system that includes the construction of influent conveyance facilities, a new water reclamation facility (WRF), and new effluent conveyance facilities in western Wake County and Chatham County, North Carolina to serve the Towns of Apex, Cary, and Morrisville and RTP South. The proposed WRF site is north of US 1 and just south of Old US 1 between New Hill-Holleman and Shearon Harris Roads. The WRF would be constructed in two phases to a proposed treatment capacity of 30 million gallons per day (MGD). The effluent line will leave the WRF in Wake County and enter Chatham County, continuing to the discharge point located on the Cape Fear River downstream of Buckhorn Dam in Chatham County.

Public Notice of release of draft EIS and Notice of Hearing dated 3/13/2009

Federal Register Notice (Vol. 74, No. 48, p 108966-7, 3/13/2009)

Permit Application - document download page

Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) - document download page