Here is the WWALS comment letter to GA-EPD about the second wood pellet plant permit application for Adel, Georgia.
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The Letter
See also PDF.
May 2, 2022
By Electronic Mail to: Continue reading
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Comment period to GA-EPD about second Adel wood pellet plant 2022-04-01
Please send comments to GA-EPD by May 2, 2022, about the proposed air quality permit for the second Adel wood pellet mill, Spectrum Energy Georgia, LLC, 801 Cook St, Adel, 31620, Application No: 28143. WWALS will be sending in comments, to:
epdcomments@dnr.ga.gov (include “Air permit application” in the subject line)
Or postal mail to:
Air Permit Manager, 4244 International Parkway, Suite 120, Atlanta, Georgia 30354.
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Cook Street
is marked by the red ellipse in the WWALS map of the Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail.
Remember, this plant would draw wood from as far away as Tallahassee and the Okefenokee Swamp, on top of the wood used by the other Adel pellet plant and the one in Waycross. More clearcutting still means more runoff, more contaminants in the waterways, and more flooding. Continue reading
Permit application, pellet mill, Spectrum Energy Georgia, Adel, GA 2021-10-22
Eric Cornwell of GA-EPD says “they have yet to submit the toxic impact assessment modeling demonstration. If you are familiar with Adel, the proposed plant site is the former SierraPine engineered wood plant (I think that old plant used to make particleboard or MDF )”. Thanks to Eric for a speedy response to my open records request about this wood pellet plant proposed by Spectrum Energy Georgia LLC on a site owned by Green Tree Biomass LLC.
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Location, Title, Boundary, Plan
The permit application files are on the WWALS website:
https://wwals.net/pictures/2021-10-22–spectrum-energy-pellet-plant-adel
Why would WWALS, a water organization be concerned about an air quality permit application? Well, this plant sits on the divide between the Little and Withlacoochee River Basins, between Morrison Creek of the Little River and Bear Creek of the Withlacoochee River. Any contaminant spills could end up in one or the other. Continue reading