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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Provision of water services: operational matters - Discharge of wastewater and trade waste

213: Discharge of trade waste

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"Rules for businesses releasing trade waste into the wastewater system"

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If you have a business, you can release trade waste into the wastewater network if you have permission from the water service provider. You can get this permission in two ways: with the water service provider's consent, or if you follow a trade waste discharge plan or a trade waste bylaw that allows it.

You need to check the rules that apply to your business and the area you are in.

This rule does not change any trade waste bylaws or the Resource Management Act 1991, which still applies to your business.

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Discharge of wastewater and trade waste

213Discharge of trade waste

  1. The occupier of trade premises within a water service provider’s service area may discharge trade waste proceeding from those premises into the water service provider’s wastewater network—

  2. with the consent of the water service provider; or
    1. without consent if, and to the extent that, the discharge is permitted by a trade waste discharge plan or a trade waste bylaw.

      1. This section does not override any trade waste bylaws or the Resource Management Act 1991.

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