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Non-Compliance detail
Summary
Licence number:
5425
Annual Return Start:
01 Jul 2012
Annual Return End:
30 Jun 2013
Date Received:
29 Aug 2013
Licence Condition number
Type of non-compliance
EPA actions
No. of times occurred
L2.1
Concentration limits for pH and suspended Solids exceeded. Flooding and low pH of intake water resulted in low pH discharge from plant. Flooding may also have resulted in backwash of sediment in settling lagoon. Causing high SS discharge from plant.
EPA to monitor future compliance with this condition
1
L3.1
Weekly effluent discharge limit exceeded due to heavy rainfall and flooding in the river, leading to poor quality raw water. Plant needed to carry out additional wasting from clarification process, backwashing of filters and filtering to waste.
Appropriate Action taken by licensee
1