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Fees
Trade wastewater fees and charges
Our charges for managing the discharge of your trade wastewater, set out below, cover the costs of managing and treating trade wastewater. They are made up of management fees and waste quality charges.
Management fees
This is a summary of management fees that cover our administration, monitoring, sampling and inspection costs.
- Additional inspection fees apply when we need to do more than the planned inspections (which are included in the permit fees). These inspections can be to monitor trade waste discharge or to ensure a customer complies with requirements.
- The quarterly fee is based on the maximum of 92 days. Quarters with fewer days will cost less.
- Variation fees cover the cost of validating and processing changes to an existing approval. You may request a variation once every 6 months.
Commercial customers
Fees |
2020–21 charge |
2021–22 charge |
|---|---|---|
Application fee |
No fee |
No fee |
Variation fee |
No fee |
No fee |
Additional inspections |
$205.53 |
$210.08 |
Liquid waste trap (grease trap) quarterly charge |
$10.32 / trap (grease trap) |
$10.55 / trap |
Quarterly permit fees – first process |
$27.37 |
$27.98 |
Quarterly permit fees – each additional process |
$9.12 |
$9.32 |
Download our Commercial customers: Trade wastewater fees and charges (329KB) fact sheet.
Industrial customers
Fees |
2020–21 charge |
2021–22 charge |
|---|---|---|
Application fee (standard) |
$812.78 |
$830.76 |
Variation fee |
$457.77 |
$467.90 |
Renewal fee |
No fee |
No fee |
Additional inspections |
$205.53 |
$210.08 |
Liquid waste trap (grease trap) quarterly charge |
$10.32 / trap (grease trap) |
$10.55 / trap |
Quarterly consent fees Risk Index 1, 2 or 3 |
$2,736.41 |
$2,796.94 |
Quarterly consent fees Risk Index 4 |
$1,262.96 |
$1,290.90 |
Quarterly consent fees Risk Index 5 |
$841.97 |
$860.60 |
Quarterly consent fees Risk Index 6 |
$420.99 |
$430.30 |
Quarterly consent fees Risk Index 7 |
$210.49 |
$215.15 |
Download our Industrial customers: Trade wastewater fees and charges (405KB) fact sheet.
Waste quality charges
Commercial customers
We've characterised the quality of trade wastewater from commercial customers by sampling groups with similar processes. We've used this information to calculate the cost of treating that trade wastewater. Each process is assigned a $/kL charge.
Commercial process |
2020–21 charge ($/kL) |
2021–22 charge ($/kL) |
|---|---|---|
High strength Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) food – includes fried chicken outlets, Asian style barbeques, ice cream parlours, craft breweries <12kL/day and some retail bakeries |
2.383 |
2.435 |
Low strength BOD food – includes restaurants, food courts, takeaway food outlets (including burger and pizza restaurants) |
1.719 |
1.757 |
High strength BOD food and low strength BOD food – if pre-treatment is not maintained* |
13.292 |
13.586 |
Automotive – includes service stations, panel beaters, car detailers, mechanical workshops and some car wash activities |
0.490 |
0.500 |
Commercial laundry – includes laundromats, small commercial laundries, hospitals, nursing home and hotel laundries, and small dyers |
0.403 |
0.411 |
Equipment hire washing |
2.835 |
2.898 |
Lithographic processing |
0.282 |
0.288 |
*If the pre-treatment is poorly maintained or you haven't installed pre-treatment, we may apply higher charges.
For a complete list of commercial processes and charging rates, download our Commercial customers: Trade wastewater fees and charges (329KB) fact sheet.
Industrial customers
We've calculated the additional costs of treating each substance. We charge industrial customers for the mass of each substance discharged.
Discharge to primary treatment plants
If you discharge to a primary wastewater treatment plant, these charges may apply.
Find out what level of treatment is provided at your wastewater treatment plant.
Substance |
2020–21 charging rate ($/kg) |
2021–22 charging rate ($/kg) |
|---|---|---|
BOD |
0.326 + (0.142 x [BOD mg/L]/600) |
0.334 + (0.145 x [BOD mg/L]/600) |
Suspended solids |
0.460 |
0.470 |
Grease |
0.417 |
0.426 |
Nitrogen |
0.000 |
0.000 |
Phosphorus |
0.000 |
0.000 |
Discharge to secondary or tertiary treatment plants
If you discharge to a secondary or tertiary wastewater treatment plant, these charges may apply.
Find out what level of treatment is provided at your wastewater treatment plant.
Substance |
2020–21 charging rate ($/kg) |
2021–22 charging rate ($/kg) |
|---|---|---|
BOD |
1.609 + (0.142 x [BOD mg/L]/600) |
1.644 + (0.145 x [BOD mg/L]/600) |
Suspended solids |
1.049 |
1.073 |
Grease |
1.086 |
1.110 |
Nitrogen |
1.203 |
1.229 |
Phosphorus |
1.389 |
1.419 |
Discharge to systems affected by odour and corrosion
If you discharge to a wastewater system affected by accelerated odour and corrosion, these additional charges may apply.
| Substance | 2020–21 charging rate | 2021–22 charging rate |
|---|---|---|
Temperature > 25° C |
$8.231 / Megalitre / each °C above 25 °C |
$8.413 / Megalitre / each °C above 25 °C |
pH |
$74.348 / Megalitre / each pH unit <pH7 |
$75.993 / Megalitre / each pH unit <pH7 |
For a complete list of acceptance standards and charging rates, download our Industrial customers: Acceptance standards and charging rates (644KB) fact sheet.