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RA 9275 Clean Water Act & Policy Updates 2022
RA 9275 Clean Water Act & Policy Updates 2022
RA 9275 Clean Water Act & Policy Updates 2022
FRIO 2009
Water body classification and usage of marine waters
Classification Beneficial Use
Class SA 1) Protected Waters – waters designated as national or
local parks and reserves established under Presidential
Proclamation No. 1801; existing laws and/or declared
as such by appropriate government agency.
2) Fishery Water Class 1 –suitable for shellfish
harvesting for direct human consumption
Class SB 1) Recreational Water Class I (Areas regularly used
by the public for bathing, swimming, skin diving, etc.);
2) Fishery Water Class II (Spawning areas for
Chanos chanos or "Bangus" and similar species).
3) Tourist zone – for ecotourism and recreational
activities
Class SC 1) Fishery Water Class III –For propagation and
growth of fish and other aquatic resources intended for
commercial and sustenance fishing
2) Recreational water Class II – for boating, fishing, or
similar activities
3) Marshy and/or mangrove areas declared as fish
and wildlife sanctuaries;
Class SD Navigable waters.
FRIO 2009
• For drinking water, see Phil Nat’l Standards for Drinking Water, DOH,
2017
• Important Consideration:
– the WQG are set regardless of the assimilative
WQMA capacity of water bodies, and to ensure that
assimilative capacities are not exceeded
• Important Consideration:
– the WQG are set regardless of the assimilative
WQMA capacity of water bodies, and to ensure that
assimilative capacities are not exceeded
Effluent
• Discharges from known source
which are passed into a body of
water or land or wastewater
flowing out of a manufacturing
plant, industrial plant including
domestic, industrial or
recreational facilities.
Treated Wastewater
Receiving
(Effluent) water body
Effluent Monitoring
• A process of checking,
evaluating or investigating the
quality of the wastewater
discharges from the industries,
establishments or facilities.
• Primary goal – to ensure
compliance of industries and
commercial establishments with
the DENR Effluent Standards
Objectives
• Determine compliance with the regulatory
standards
• Evaluate the efficiency of treatment and
control
• Identify potential environmental problems and
evaluating the need for remedial actions or
mitigating measures
• To detect, characterize and report unplanned
releases by the facility or establishment
• To determine the impact to the receiving
media
Effluent standard
• any legal restriction or limitation on
quantities, rates, and/or concentrations
or any combination thereof, of physical,
chemical or biological parameters of
effluent which a person or point source
is allowed to discharge into a body of
water or land.
General Effluent Standards
• Discharges from any point source shall at
all times meet the effluent standards set
forth in Tables 2-3 to maintain the required
water quality per water body classification
• The GES shall be used regardless of
industry category
Significant Effluent Quality
Parameters per Sector
Significant Effluent Quality
Parameters per Sector
Effluent Standards
Comparison of Effluent Stds (old and new)
4.0
4.0
Discharge
Permits
• First time application – applying for the first time shall submit
such documents, information and data, to be contained in verified
Engineer’s Report prepared by a registered chemical or sanitary
engineer or pollution control officer:
• Vicinity map identifying the street address, location or
plant premise;
• The nature of project or business;
• Production capacity; quantity or volume and the generic
name(s) of product(s);
• The nature and character of the applicant’s wastewater
and its physical and chemical composition;
• Total daily volume of discharge of raw wastewater;
• Treatment process and estimated treatment efficiency;
Discharge Permits
Requirements
• The total daily volume of water consumption and discharge of final treated
wastewater or effluent;
• The name of receiving body of water and its official water classification and
in case of land discharge, the nearest receiving body of water and its official
water classification;
• Information on flow measurement equipment and procedure;
• Pollution prevention/Environmental Management System plan or program;
• DENR ID Number as hazardous waste generator (if applicable);
• Statement of the cost incurred in the installation and maintenance of
wastewater treatment facility, if any;
• Quality and quantity o abstracted water; and
• Copy of the Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) from the
Department or Certificate of Non-Coverage (CNC), as applicable.
Discharge Permits Renewal
Requirements
a) Copies of the quarterly self-monitoring reports for the immediately
preceding year;
b) A copy of the Certificate of Accreditation of the Pollution Control
Officer duly issued by the Department, or
appointment/designation as such by the Managing Head;
c) Official Receipts for the payment of the applicable Permit Fee and
the Wastewater Discharge Fee; and
d) Other documents that may be required related to land application.
Permit Fee
Volumetric Rate of Effluent with Heavy
Conventional Effluent
Discharge Metals
PhP2,000.00
Zero discharge PhP2,000.00
PhP2,000.00
Below 10 cum.day PhP2,600.00
Department of Agriculture
Administrative Order No.
26, Series of 2007
(November 11, 2007)
•Groundwater pollution
•Facility discharge
without permit
Prohibited Acts
• Disposal of infectious waste
from vessel
•Unauthorized
transport
•Chemical dumping
Prohibited Acts
• Illegal facility
• Sewerage development/expansion against
EIA
• Illegal discharge
Prohibited Acts
• Prohibited Acts
• Fined amount of not less than P10,000 nor more than
P200,000 for every day of violation
• Increased by 10 % every two (2) years
• PAB may order closure, suspension of development or
construction, or cessation of operations or, where
appropriate disconnection of water supply
Fines, Damages and
Penalties
• Gross Violations:
• Deliberate discharge of toxic pollutants in RA 6969
• Five (5) or more violations within a period of two (2)
years
• Blatant disregard of the order of the PAB
• Fined amount of not less than P500,000 nor more
than P3,000,000 per day for each day of violation
• Or imprisonment of not less than six (6) years but not
more than ten (10) years
• Or both, at the discretion of the court
Fines, Damages and
Penalties
• Everybody is a Polluter.