Suburban
Suburban Reporter
THE City of Harare has introduced a renewable annual trade effluent discharge licence for all industrial and commercial properties generating trade effluent and discharging it directly or indirectly (through manholes) into the municipal wastewater system.
In a statement, the city said the annual trade effluent discharge licence fee will be US$500 or the equivalent in local currency and is effective from January 1, 2022 in terms of the Environmental Management Act (EMA) Chapter 20:21 of 2002 Section 59 (1).
“The application forms for the TEDL (trade effluent discharge licence) are obtainable at the City’s Trade Waste Inspectorate Office (Cleveland House 6th Floor Office Number 601) at a cost of US$5 (or equivalent $ZWL) per form,” read the statement undersigned by the acting town clerk Engineer Phakamile Mabhena Moyo.