Approve wastewater discharge into private wastewater plants

• You can apply for a permit to discharge wastewater into private wastewater systems at the responsible office.
• You fill out the application form and submit it with all the necessary documents.
• The competent authority will check your application.
• If all the necessary requirements are met, your application can be approved.
• You will receive a permit to discharge wastewater into private wastewater facilities.

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.

Approval may only be granted if

• the requirements of the Waste Water Ordinance applicable to the waste water are complied with,
• the private sewage treatment plant can adequately purify the wastewater and
• the wastewater is pre-treated by the discharging company in such a way that the above requirements are met.

The operator of the private sewage plant may impose further requirements .

• Application
• Further required documents depend on the wastewater (industrial wastewater, commercial wastewater) that is to be discharged into the private wastewater system

Discharge into a private sewage treatment plant may only take place once the permit has been granted, so that the application for the permit must be made in good time, at least six months before discharge of waste water in a private sewage plant.

The processing time depends on the quality and scope of the applications and documents submitted.

It shall be at least three months.

• § 59 Absatz 1 Wasserhaushaltsgesetz (WHG)
• § 68 Verwaltungsgerichtsordnung (VwGO)
• § 61 State Water Act (LWG)

Contradiction

• Information from the Federal Environment Agency on wastewater law
• Structure and Approval Directorate North - Rhineland-Palatinate
  

  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.