Planned valley spring water plant files for permit
ZION GROVE – A controversial water extraction plant in the valley is officially seeking regulatory permission to pull 75,000 gallons of spring water a day.
KH Spring Waters, LLC, filed an application on August 1 with the Susquehanna River Basin Commission.
The company, listed on the application as based at a Wilkes-Barre law firm, plans to use two boreholes to extract groundwater on the former Kuzma Property on Catawissa Creek Road near Labenberg Road.
They are seeking permission to extract about 75,000 gallons per day, or 52 gallons per minute. Water will be disinfected and held in a 25,000 gallon storage tank for tanker trucks to hook to and receive water.
The water, ultimately, will be trucked to bottling plants.
Raymond Hassey, of Hassey Legal Services, Wilkes-Barre, is listed as the company president.
The planned effort has been a hot topic in North Union Township this year. A standing room-only crowd heard from a company representative at the February 5 township supervisors meeting.
There, neighbors expressed concerns over impacts to their wells and the aquifer. One man said the company should pay landowners in the area for extracting the water.
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