Authorize wastewater discharge into public sewage plants

• You can apply for the permit to discharge wastewater into public wastewater systems at the responsible office.
• You fill in the application forms and submit them with all the required documents.
• The competent body will review your application.
• If all the necessary requirements are met, your application can be approved.
• You will receive a permit to discharge wastewater into public wastewater systems

In Rhineland-Palatinate, the following applies:

• The responsible structure and approval directorate North or South, explains the approval procedure for indirect discharge.
• You prepare the application documents with the help of a specialist planner and submit them.
• The responsible structure and approval directorate will check your application documents. If necessary, submit the required documents later.
• Your subsequently submitted documents will be checked.
• The approval is drawn up on the basis of the examination and, if necessary, subsequently submitted application documents.
• You will receive a notification of approval for indirect discharge.
• You pay the administration fee.

Please contact the Structural and Approval Directorate North or South.

Responsibility in Rhineland-Palatinate lies with the Structural and Approval Directorates North and South.

The permit may only be issued if

• the requirements of the Wastewater Ordinance applicable to the wastewater are met,
• the public sewage treatment plant can adequately treat the wastewater, and
• the wastewater is pretreated at the discharging plant, if necessary, in such a way that the preceding requirements are met.

In addition

• the discharge must be approved by the sewerage operator.
• The discharge must not endanger personnel working at the waste water treatment plant, damage plant or equipment or interfere with the operation of the sewage treatment plant.
• The water purified in the public sewage treatment plant must not harm the environment and the receiving water.
• The sewage sludge must be safely disposed of.

• Application

The other documents required depend on the wastewater (for example, industrial wastewater or commercial wastewater) that is to be discharged into the public wastewater system. More detailed information can be obtained from the responsible office.

If applicable:

• Information on the production of the discharging plant
• Information on the wastewater produced, the sewers and the pre-treatment facilities provided for.

Your application must be approved before discharging wastewater into a public sewage plant. Therefore, submit the application in good time, at least six months before the discharge of the wastewater into a public sewage plant.

It is expected that the processing time will be at least 3 months.

The processing time is delayed if documents have to be submitted later.

• § 58 Wasserhaushaltsgesetz (WHG)
• § 68 Verwaltungsgerichtsordnung (VwGO)
• § 61 Landeswassergesetz (LWG) in conjunction with § 19 Landeswassergesetz (LWG)
• § 19 State Water Act (LWG)
• § 6a State Ordinance on the Disposal of Urban Wastewater (KomAbwVO)

Opposition

• Information from the Federal Environment Agency on wastewater law
• Website of the Structural and Approval Directorate North
  

  Remark: Information, leaflets, forms of the Structural and Approval Directorate North

• Structure and Approval Directorate South - Wastewater Disposal
  

  Remark: Information on wastewater disposal of the Structural and Approval Directorate South

State Office for the Environment

09.02.2023

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.