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SINGAPORE – Local food manufacturer Whye Kee Foodstuff was fined $ 17,700 for illegally dumping raw sewage into public sewers repeatedly, the national water agency PUB said on Thursday (Oct. 8).
The company was previously fined $ 14,400 in May of last year for doing the same.
The latest violations were discovered during PUB inspections at the company’s Tai Seng Avenue site in September and October of last year.
“During one of the inspections, it was discovered that the commercial effluent sample had exceeded, by more than 120 times, the allowed limits for the biochemical oxygen demand, the total suspended solids and the chemical oxygen demand; and more than eight times for oils and fats (not hydrocarbons). These substances come from food waste produced by the company’s food manufacturing operations, ”PUB said in a press release.
The agency said that excessive levels of these substances in wastewater can affect the water treatment processes used in its water reclamation plants and therefore disrupt the production of NEW water.
Investigations revealed that Whye Kee Foodstuff failed to implement effective measures to prevent and eliminate excessive food waste generated by food manufacturing processes entering the sewers. Furthermore, the company did not pretreat the commercial effluent to comply with the discharge limits as required by the Sewer and Drainage Regulation (commercial effluent), ”said PUB.
PUB has since revoked its approval for the company to discharge commercial effluents into the sewers starting May 4 this year. The company now has to hire the appropriate waste collectors to collect its effluents for off-site disposal.
For discharging commercial effluents containing chemicals that exceed the limits allowed in the public sewer under the Sewer and Drainage Regulations (Commercial Effluents), the company could have been fined between $ 5,000 and $ 15,000 for each of the four charges processed. Of which he pleaded guilty. He faced a total of 10 charges, but six were considered at sentencing as part of a plea deal.
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