Queensland Trade Waste Approval and Compliance Record

Trade waste and seepage water approvals issued by a Queensland sewerage service provider (council or water utility) under Water Supply (Safety and Reliability) Act 2008 (Qld) ch 2 pt 6 (s 180 approvals, s 181 conditions such as maximum daily quantity and limits for suspended solids and biochemical oxygen demand, ss 182-184 suspension and cancellation, s 185 amendment), and the compliance records that follow them: sampling results against discharge limits, grease arrestor and pre-treatment inspections, and breach or non-compliance notices. The records carry the approval holder's business, premises, approval number, process chemistry and non-compliance history. Published trade waste guidance, acceptance criteria tables, fact sheets and blank application forms are decoys.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: "trade waste approval" and "seepage water approval" are statutory terms (WSSR Act s 180) and uncommon outside the record type, but they fill council trade waste policies, fact sheets and application forms, so enforce tiers require populated approval or premises fields. Approval numbers are council-defined with no published format, so values are label-anchored, digit-bearing and placeholder-guarded. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy; test values are synthetic.
Jurisdictions: au
Regulations: Water Supply (Safety and Reliability) Act 2008 (Qld), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld)
Frameworks: QGISCF
Data categories: business, environmental, infrastructure
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 5
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:trade\s+waste\s+(?:approvals?|permits?|licen[cs]es?|agreements?|applications?|category|categories|generators?|discharges?|plans?|customers?|inspections?)|seepage\s+water\s+approvals?)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

sampling, exceedance, breach, non-compliance, grease arrestor, pre-treatment, suspension, cancellation, conditions of approval, sewerage

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Trade waste approval - compliance sampling report Approval number: TW-2026-0418 Approval holder: Harbourline Food Processing Pty Ltd Premises: 22 Tallowwood Drive, Carrow Industrial Estate Results for composite collected 11/09/2026: BOD 2,850 mg/L (limit 1,000 mg/L) Suspended solids 640 mg/L (limit 500 mg/L) Daily discharge volume 38 kL/day (maximum 30 kL/day) Exceedance of conditions of approval - grease arrestor pump-out overdue. Non-compliance notice to issue. — High tier (85) - approval number and holder, measured results against limits, breach wording
Trade waste permit TWP 5512 amendment under section 185 Permit holder: Testvale Metal Finishing Site address: 7 Anvil Street, Lakeside Conditions: zinc limit 5 mg/L; maximum daily quantity 12 kL/day; pre-treatment by pH correction and settling tank before discharge to sewer. — High tier (85) - holder and site fields, discharge limits with units, pre-treatment and sewer terms
Trade waste application received for a new cafe. Business name: Wattle & Crumb Cafe Premises address: Shop 4, 18 Main Street, Mount Carrow Trade waste category: food premises, grease arrestor to be sized by plumber. — Medium tier (75) - populated business and premises fields, no measured results
Seepage water approval SWA/2026/0077 issued to the basement car park at 40 Quay Road. — Medium tier (75) - approval number only
Please check the trade waste agreement renewals list before the Thursday meeting. — Discovery tier (65) - primary phrase only

Should not match

180 Approvals for discharge of trade waste and seepage water (1) A sewerage service provider may give a person 1 or both of the following approvals: (a) an approval (a trade waste approval) to discharge trade waste into the sewerage infrastructure; (b) an approval (a seepage water approval) to discharge seepage water into the sewerage infrastructure. — Legislation text (65 only)
Trade waste fact sheet. Typical acceptance criteria for a trade waste approval: BOD 1,000 mg/L, suspended solids 500 mg/L, oil and grease 200 mg/L. Approval holder: the business that generates the waste. Contact council's trade waste officer to discuss sampling. — Council guidance with a limits table (guidance exclusion)
Trade waste permit application - blank template Business name: ______________ Premises address: ______________ Approval number: [office use] Maximum daily discharge (kL/day): ______ — Blank application form
Media release: council fines a food manufacturer after repeated trade waste discharges blocked the Carrow sewer main; the business has since installed a larger grease arrestor. — News framing (65 only)
Trade waste training exercise - approval number TW-9999-0001, approval holder Acme Widgets, BOD 900 mg/L. — Training exercise (noise exclusion)

Known false positives

Council trade waste policies, acceptance criteria tables, fact sheets and application guides name the approval type and list discharge limits with units. Mitigation: Enforce tiers need a populated approval number or holder/premises field; a guidance exclusion suppresses fact sheet, acceptance criteria, how to apply and application guide wording, and limits alone never reach 75.
Blank application and approval forms. Mitigation: Blank lines, square-bracket and angle-bracket placeholders and n/a/tbc values are rejected; approval numbers must contain a digit.
Liquid waste transport dockets and environmental authority records that mention trade waste in passing. Mitigation: These reach 75 only with a populated approval or premises field next to the trade waste phrase; deploy at 85 where waste-industry documents are common.