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WindCup presenters say Title V renewal proposes no operational changes; EJIS finds modeled risks below NJDEP thresholds
Summary
Consultants for WindCup Holdings said the company's Title V air permit renewal includes no equipment or emissions changes and that modeled health risks — including formaldehyde — fall below New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection thresholds; public commenters pressed the company on ongoing emissions and site proximity to wetlands.
Consultants for WindCup Holdings, Inc. presented the company's Title V air permit renewal and an accompanying Environmental Justice Impact Statement (EJIS), saying the renewal proposes no new equipment, materials, throughput or pollutant increases.
"The air permit renewal action would not change or contribute to existing adverse stressors in the surrounding overburden community," said Joe Kwiatkowski of Trinity Consultants, who led the presentation. He said the permit application (BOP24000And1) was administratively complete and that WindCup is operating under a permit shield while the renewal is processed.
Kwiatkowski described facility sources — EPS storage silos, about 155 cup-molding machines, extrusion lines for straws, UV printers, and two low-NOx burner boilers — and gave 2024 baseline figures used in modeling: roughly 2,397,601 therms per year of natural gas and about 15,500 megawatt-hours of electricity. He said 2020–2024 actual emissions remain well below permit limits and that the modeled formaldehyde hazard quotient was 0.01 (NJDEP threshold = 1) with a modeled cancer risk of about 5.96×10^-7, both below the department's negligible-risk benchmarks.
Autumn Laird (Trinity Consultants) said the site at 190 Liberty Street in Metuchen sits in a census block designated as overburdened under New Jersey's rule and listed nearby sensitive receptors (13 schools, seven medical or senior facilities, seven parks within one mile) but that the renewal would not add to existing community stressors. The consultants noted a 2000 site remediation with no further action in 2006 and a decommissioned 20,000-gallon fuel oil tank on site.
The hearing record will remain open for written comments through August 22, 2026, and consultants said they will assemble comments and prepare responses to submit to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for review.
