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Harare City Council introduces USD500 fee for industrial, commercial properties

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HARARE City Council has introduced an annual trade discharge fee of US$5oo or ZWL equivalent effective 1 January 2021 to commercial and industrial properties that produce trade effluent and directly or indirectly discharge it into the municipal sewer.

In a statement HCC says the trade effluent discharge licence fee is in accordance with the provision of the Environment Management Act (EMA CHAPTER) CAP 20:27 Section 59(1) which authorities’ local authorities operating a sewerage system to issue a prescribed fee to every owner or operator of a trade or industrial trade effluent and discharging in into its sewerage system.

“This trade effluent discharge licence fee is over and above the monthly billed trade effluent charges which are dependent on the volume and quality of effluent is issued with a council business licence,” reads statement.

It also states that a payment of the trade effluent discharge licence fee will on of the requirements to be met before an existing or new business which produces industrial trade effluent is issued with a council business license.

“A monthly penalty fee of USD$300 or ZWL equivalent , which will be reviewed quarterly ,will be charged with immediate effect, to every trade effluent producing industrial or commercial property operating without prerequisite pre-treatment facility or facilities in violation of EMACAP20:27Section 59(2) and the Urban Councils Act (UCA)CAP29:15 of 1996 section 173(4) which require the proponent or owner of a trade or industrial undertaking to pre-treat their trade effluent before discharging it into the sewerage system,”

The penalty fee shall continue to be charged until the concerned industrial or commercial properties install the requisite pre-treatment facilities to the satisfaction of council.

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