The Susquehanna River Basin Commission on Thursday held a public hearing to discuss an application to allow the Crane Clean Energy Center, formerly known as the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, to pull more than 70 million gallons of water from the Susquehanna River each day.
The center, owned by Constellation Energy Generation, is currently approved — while decommissioned — to pull a maximum of 44 million gallons of water from the river per day, with 6 million gallons per day approved for “consumptive use.”
Prior to that, when the nuclear power plant was active, it was approved to draw much more than the current application: 122.8 million gallons per day, with 19.2 million going toward consumptive use…