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CITY OF CAPE TOWN: WASTEWATER AND INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT BY LAW

Posted 25 March 2014

The City of Cape Town enacted the Wastewater and Industrial Effluent By Law which repeals the Wastewater and Industrial Effluent By Law, 2006. The By Law regulates amongst others things:

a) Duties of owners of property and prohibited acts;
b) Permission to discharge industrial effluent;
c) Cleaning of blocked private sewers; and
d) Transportation and disposal of wastewater or industrial effluent.