Non-Compliance Issues
Why Did You Get a Non-Compliant Trade Effluent Warning Letter?
There are easy steps we can take to deal with a non-compliant trade effluent warning letter and ensure you are soon compliant with wastewater and trade effluent discharge limits.
Do You Discharge Trade Effluent?
If any liquid from your business operations is discharged into the wastewater system, you are discharging trade effluent. Trade effluent includes any water from production, washing or cooling facilities at commercial premises.
Your Consent to Discharge
You have a legal responsibility to ensure that your trade effluent is of sufficient quality to be discharged to a sewer, river or other waterway. The required quality is known as your trade effluent consent to discharge limit.
Threat of Legal Action
If you’re currently exceeding your trade effluent consent to discharge limits, you are non-compliant and breaking the law. You need to take immediate action to improve the effluent quality or legal action could be taken against your business.
Stay Legal, Save Money
If that all sounds daunting, don’t worry: not only will we guide you through the process of becoming compliant with trade effluent discharge limits, but the measures we put in place will ultimately save your business time and money.
Improving Wastewater Quality
Have you received a warning letter about non-compliance with trade effluent discharge limits from your local authority or utility company? Perhaps your effluent discharge is within consent limits, but you would like to improve the discharge quality to ensure lower charges against the Mogden formula.
In either case, we will work with you to remove the contaminants present in your trade effluent and improve wastewater quality for your business. To do this we will first identify the most suitable wastewater treatment equipment to deal with your business’ specific needs.
For example, if you’re in the food and drinks industry, your trade effluent discharge is prone to high levels of fats, oils and grease. We can cut expensive effluent bills and avoid fines for breaches of consent by putting in place a targeted wastewater treatment system.
How We Have Helped Others
Our latest trade effluent sample analysis report from NI Water has shown a huge improvement in our effluent discharge. We have achieved a remarkable 96% reduction on Fats, oil and grease following the installation of Water Tecnik’s turnkey effluent treatment system.
Since the unit was commissioned, it has operated faultlessly and saved the company significant money on its wet waste stream.
Water Tecnik has been invaluable in their technical advice and engineering support. Avondale has been able to reliably and consistently reduce treated effluent contaminate levels, which is translating to real cost savings over the year.
Installing an oil skimmer was something we had been looking to complete for some time. Our only regret was that we didn't complete the project sooner. The new "Oil-Skim" system provided by Water Tecnik has proved a great success since day one. Adam and Water Tecnik have been great to deal with, with prompt replies received on any queries.
Water Tecnik took the time to fully understand our process problems and they developed a bespoke solution which has helped us reduce downtimes and Opex.
Water Tecnik were able to find us a cost-effective solution to our effluent problems. The level of attention our project has received has been first class and any issues have been dealt with promptly. I would have no hesitation in recommending Water Tecnik for any wastewater projects.
Water Tecnik have been very helpful and have offered The Kerry Group excellent support throughout our dealings. It has been extremely easy to pick up the phone and call Adam and the team whenever we had questions or need clarification.
Water Tecnik worked closely with our team to enable us to integrate our existing plant with a new modern DAF system, through mutual planning this was completed with relevant ease and most importantly limited downtime.