HAMMARSDALE NEW PERMIT

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HAMMARSDALE NEW PERMIT TARIFF IMPLEMENTATION

• Sandra Redelinghuys
• Acting Manager Pollution and Accounts
• eThekwini Water and Sanitation

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UMLAAS RIVER CATCHMENT
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HAMMARSDALE WWTW
Taken over by EWS on 1July 2003
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RECEIVING ENVIRONMENT LEGAL OBLIGATIONS

• Permit 2131 B relaxations
• Colour 100oH until December 2002
• EC 250mS/m until September 2003
• New licence require reserve determination
• In the interim must show what we are doing to
  comply
• DWAF will not consider Conductivity relaxation if
  CP not proved
• Additionally Waste discharge charge envisaged
• Eutrophiers
• Conductivity

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• Council resolution 1997 wrt tariffs new Bylaws
• Principle of uniform tariff across Unicity
• At that stage uniform UW tariff of R2,08 /kl
• Council required to take action to comply with WQ
  stds
• Calculations showed considerable savings possible
  for most industry
• Savings could be utilised to fund environmental
  improvements
• Since then UW tariff moved closer to resembling
  EWS tariff

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• New charging system to be phased in as necessary
  improvements made
• Where new tariff is more to be phased in with
  inflationary increase plus max 20 as done
  elsewhere with formation of EWS
• Just administrative action - must be applied
  equally to all industry
• Permit is legal way of ensuring fairness and
  equity
• New permit developed together with Norwegians
  ensures international best practise
• Stds have to be set for permit conditions
• Cleaner production part of all new permits in
  eThekwini
• Unique negotiations with each company

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TOTAL CHARGE
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DOMESTIC CHARGE VS SEWAGE RATE

• No correlation between EWS and Umgeni charge
• Decision to keep separate from TE charge

• Full phasing in of sewage rate on
• 1 January 2005

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DESKTOP STUDY COLOUR STANDARD SETTING
Downstream User
Industry
Hammarsdale Wastewater Works
Industry
Industry
Sterkspruit
Quality Assessment 12
Industry
Cleaner Production 34
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INDIVIDUAL PERMITS TARIFFS

• Permit process will spell out improvements
  required and allocate percentages to these
• 70 - Textile ADMI std of 450 and evaluation
  of red colour
• Conductivity currently no std limit but will
  use previous results to make legal
• 30 Cleaner production and BAT
• COD 1700 non textile and other requirements
  eg solids removal

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• Trade effluent
• will be as soon as new set of 12 samples obtained
  over 3 months which verify improvement claimed
• sampling and analysis to be done by outside
  laboratory either accredited or approved by EWS
• BAT/Cleaner production
• upon verification of milestones as per agreed
  improvement programme
• CP will be considered on improvements since 1997
• Cleaner production on water issues only

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PERMITS GENERAL

• Targets must be in place and not anticipated
• Engineer to verify targets met by report to
  Manager who has delegated authority to change
  charge
• Could result in more than one tariff restructure
  per year.
• Shared tariffs as progress with environmental
  targets e.g. 50 Umgeni tariff and 50 EWS
  tariff

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WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER WRT SUSTAINABILITY IN THE
CITY

• Accounts Pollution NW
• L. Narayansamy C. Fennemore
• 3024546 3024071
• S. Redelinghuys
• 3024685