A meeting and public hearing regarding a permit application for the proposed data center project in Nesquehoning will be held in August.

According to a legal notice in the Times News on July 15, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection will hold a meeting to answer questions, followed by a public hearing, beginning at 5 p.m. on Aug. 20 at the Panther Valley Junior/Senior High School, 912 Coal Region Way, Lansford.

The meeting will take place from 5 to 6:45 p.m. and will cover any questions on the overall project for the proposed data center. The site is called Carbon Node East Development LLC, located at 4 Dennison Road, Nesquehoning.

At 7 p.m., the hearing will allow people to submit comments regarding the water obstruction and encroachment joint permit application and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit application for the discharge of stormwater from construction activities into Broad Run, Dennison Run and Nesquehoning Creek, as well as wetlands.

Anyone who would like to ask a question or testify at the hearing should submit a written notice to Patricia Monahan, community relations coordinator, at pamonahan@pa.gov up until the day of the meeting.

All testimony should be limited to three minutes and must center around the permit applications.

Written comments are also accepted.

Carbon Node East, operated by Keel Infrastructures, has been planning the four-building, 350-megawatt data center that would employ approximately 300 people once fully operational.

Last month, borough council approved the project’s sewage plans.

The proposed wastewater flows are projected to be 18,662 gallons per day or the 86 equivalent dwelling units.

That flow is based on 250 employees with a usage rate of 35 gallons per day per employee, plus a little less than 10,000 gallons per day of condensate water from the mechanical cooling equipment inside the buildings.

The wastewater system would then use gravity to transport the wastewater to the borough wastewater treatment plant for processing.