ERA 63 and Sewage Pump Stations Code of Practice
Date: 29-Jun-2017
The Minister for Environment has provided in-principle support for the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection to proceed with the Code of Practice for Sewage Pump Stations and Sewerage Networks that was created by the industry in 2015 (see e-Flash #249 and #252 and e-Flash #236). Significant changes have been made to the regulation covering sewerage infrastructure over the past few years (see summary here) and extensive consultation in the first half of 2014 resulted in an overwhelming response from the urban water industry to transition to a Code of Practice.
Both qldwater and LGAQ have received a response from the Minister for the Environment indicating support for the adoption of the new Code of Practice for Sewage Pumping Stations and Networks. This week the Department indicated that they were gearing up to formalise the Industry Code and remove the relevant section of ERA 63. This process will proceed over the coming few months and there will be one final iteration of the document prior to it being adopted.
We wish to thank the qldwater ERA 63 Expert Panel and the numerous councils that have provided input to the Code of Practice over the past 18 months. The industry will be provided a month to review any final changes and this draft will be circulated to the Expert Panel and to the broader industry via e-Flash as soon as it is available.
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