Water Pollution Regulations (Amendment) (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Water Pollution Regulations1 (Amendment)

Subordinate Law No. 31 of 19922

The Australian Capital Territory Executive makes the following Regulations under the Water Pollution Act 1984.

Dated 3 December 1992.

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Minister

terry connolly

Minister

Principal Regulations

1.  In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Water Pollution Regulations.

Commencement

2.  These Regulations commence on the day on which they are notified in the Gazette.

Interpretation

3.  Regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting from paragraphs (2) (a), (b) and (c) “Column 1 of”;

(b)by omitting from paragraphs (2) (a), (b) and (c) “column” and substituting “Schedule”; and

(c)by omitting from paragraph (2) (c) “4” and substituting “3”.

Discharge into Class P waters

4.  Regulation 8 of the Principal Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting from subregulation (5) all words from and including “unless—” and substituting the following:

“unless the waste has been treated according to a method of disinfection which the Authority, by notice in the Gazette, declares to be acceptable.”; and

(b)by omitting subregulation (7).

Discharge into Class C waters

5.  Regulation 9 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting subregulations (2), (3), (5) and (7) to (13) (inclusive).

Discharge into Class R waters

6.  Regulation 10 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting subregulations (2), (3), (4), (6) and (8) to (13) (inclusive).

Discharge into Class O waters

7.  Regulation 11 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting subregulations (2), (5) and (6).

Discharge into Class U waters

8.  Regulation 12 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting subregulations (2) and (3).

Repeal of Part

9.  Part IV of the Principal Regulations is repealed.

Schedules

10.  Schedules 1, 2 and 4 to the Principal Regulations are repealed and the following Schedules substituted:

SCHEDULE 1  Paragraph 2 (2) (a)

Restricted substances in relation to Class p and class u waters

Arsenic

Barium

Boron

Cadmium

Chloride

Chromium (hexavalent)

Copper

Cyanide

Fluoride

Iron (dissolved)

Lead

Magnesium

Manganese (dissolved)

Mercury

Methylene blue active substances (anionic surfactants as)

Nitrogen in the form of ammonia

Nitrogen (nitrate plus nitrite)

Pesticides—

Aldrin

Chlordane

D.D.T.

Dieldrin

Endrin

Heptachlor

Heptachlor epoxide

Lindane

Methoxychlor

Toxaphene

Organophosphates or carbamates

Herbicides—

2, 4-D

2, 4, 5-T

Phenolic compounds

Selenium

Silver

Sulphate

Uranyl ion

Zinc

SCHEDULE 2  Paragraph 2 (2) (b)

Restricted substances in relation to Class C and class r waters

Arsenic

Cadmium

Chromium (hexavalent)

Copper

Cyanide

Lead

Mercury

Methylene blue active substances

Nickel

Pesticides—Organochlorides

Aldrin

D.D.T.

D.D.E.

Dieldrin

Chlordane

Endosulphan

Endrin

Heptachlor

Lindane

Methoxychlor

Toxaphene

Pesticides—Organophosphates

Azinphosmethyl

Ciodrin

Coumaphos

Diazinon

Dichlorvos

Dioxathion

Disulfonton

Dursban

Ethion

E.P.N.

Fenthion

Malathion

Mevinphos

Naled

Oxydemeton Methyl

Parathion

Phosphamidon

T.E.P.P.

Trichlorophon

Pesticides—Carbamates

Carbaryl

Zectran

Pesticides—Herbicides

Aminotriazole

Dalapon

Dicamba

Dichlobenil

Dichlone

Diquat

Diuron

2, 4-D (B.E.E.)

Fenac (Sodium salt)

Silvex (B.E.E.)

Silvex (P.G.B.E.)

Simazine

Pesticides—Botanicals

Allethrin

Pyrethrum

Rotenone

Phenolic compounds

Polychlorinated biphenyls (P.C.B.’s)

Zinc

SCHEDULE 3  Paragraph 2 (2) (c)

RESTRICTED SUBSTANCES IN RELATION TO CLASS O WATERS

Arsenic	Silver
Cadmium	Zinc
Total Chromium	Cyanide
Copper	Phenolic compounds
Lead	Total Chlorine residual
Mercury	Ammonia
Nickel	Organochlorides

NOTES

1. Reprinted as at 31 July 1991.

2. Notified in the ACT Gazette on 8 December 1992.

©  Australian Capital Territory 1992