How Do I Manage Wastewater Treatment Cost?

According to the situation of wastewater, fees are generally divided into domestic sewage and industrial wastewater. Domestic sewage is relatively small. We have more than one sewage charge per ton of tap water. This fee is given to the sewage treatment plant.

Sewage treatment fee

the expense of sewage processing

Sewage treatment fee is the fee charged by urban sewage centralized treatment facilities to provide paid sewage treatment services to polluters in accordance with regulations to ensure the normal operation of sewage centralized treatment facilities.

Sewage treatment fees are determined in accordance with the principle of compensating the operation and maintenance costs of the sewage pipe network and sewage treatment facilities and being reasonably profitable. Sewage treatment fees are levied on income from qualified environmental protection projects.

As early as 2007, Jinan has formulated the "Administrative Measures for the Collection and Use of Urban Sewage Treatment Fees in Jinan City" in accordance with the relevant requirements of the provincial government, and has been implemented in accordance with this requirement. "This method mainly determines that the main body of the fee collection is the Municipal Municipal Public Administration Bureau, and the collection scope is all water users within the city's urban area. At the same time, the principle of" two lines of revenue and expenditure "is determined. The water user pays the sewage treatment fee to the bank, and the bank then transfers this part of the fee to the special fiscal account through the automatic separation system, and realizes the special fund, which is used to operate, maintain, and manage the urban sewage treatment facility. It is understood that the sewage treatment fee currently levied in Jinan is basically stable at about 150 million yuan, but it still cannot fully meet the investment in the operation and management costs of related facilities. ^[1]

In February 2015, the Shandong Provincial Department of Housing and Construction released information encouraging all regions to take various forms of government and social capital cooperation and government purchase of services to jointly participate in the investment, construction and operation of urban drainage and sewage treatment facilities. At present, Jinan's water purification plants 1-4 and the high-tech zone water purification plants are all operated by the government to purchase services. ^[1]

In February 2015, the Ministry of Finance issued the "Administrative Measures for the Collection and Use of Sewage Treatment Fees", which will be implemented from March 1. Relevant departments are currently revising the relevant collection methods for wastewater treatment fees that were previously implemented locally. ^[1]