Greene Planning grants preliminary approval to gas facility
WAYNESBURG – Greene County Planning Commission gave preliminary approval Monday to plans by Appalachian Midstream Services LLC to construct a natural gas central delivery point facility off McNay Ridge Road in Richhill Township.
The facility will include construction of three buildings that will contain equipment to prepare natural gas from numerous well sites for delivery to nearby Spectra Energy pipelines.
The equipment will separate, dehydrate, measure and control the flow of the natural gas to the Spectra Energy pipelines. The facility will not include a compressor.
The company requested and received four modifications.
The modifications will permit the company to reduce the minimum distance between buildings, which the company said is necessary because of the interaction of equipment and reduce the number of required parking spaces and eliminate requirements to delineate all parking spaces and pave the parking area.
The company maintains the facility will be unmanned and only one vehicle is expected to visit it each day.
For final approval, the company must receive approval of it storm water management plan and its soil and erosion control plan, both of which have been submitted and are under review.
The planning commission’s next meeting is on Sept. 9.