DES MOINES – The DNR Water Quality Bureau has the following draft water use permits posted for public review. Water use permits regulate how Iowa’s water resources are allocated to ensure facilities use water efficiently and responsibly, at rates and quantities consistent with permit conditions.
As part of the permit review process, the public has the right, and is encouraged, to comment on draft water use permits. Please submit any comments to wateruse@dnr.iowa.gov by 4:30 p.m. on the last day of the comment period.
Water Use Permits for Review
Find permit document details at: www.iowadnr.gov/waterusepermits
Dickinson County
Superior Ethanol LLC (Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc.), PO BOX 138, Superior, IA 51363
Log No. 34,258
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Iowa Code Chapter 455B, there is now on file with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Water Supply Engineering Section, 6200 Park Avenue, Suite “200” Des Moines, Iowa 50321, an application as described below.
Tod Smith, on behalf of Green Plains Superior Ethanol, requests a permit authorizing withdrawal of water from two existing and one proposed Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone aquifer wells: 14 inches in diameter, about 575 feet deep, on land generally described as the SW ¼ of the SE ¼ of Section 34, T100N, R35W, Dickinson County, Iowa,, in the maximum quantity of 422.0 million gallons per year at a maximum rate of 960 gallons per minute, withdrawals being throughout each year for general industrial (ethanol production)-type use on the above-described property.
The only change to the existing permit is the addition of a new Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone well, as described above, for purposes of redundancy and operational flexibility.
The Department has determined that these uses of water conform to the relevant criteria (Iowa Code Chapter 455B and Iowa Administrative Code Chapter 567) and recommends the permits be granted.
A copy of the summary report is available upon request to the Water Quality Bureau at the address listed above. Public comments can be sent to wateruse@dnr.iowa.gov, and should specify the applicant's log number. The public comment period ends March 5.