ASBG submission on the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal’s (IPART) Sydney Water Corporation Price Review 2012 largely focused on the substantial change to trade waste pricing. Key issues and recommendations include:

• The need to ensure continuing productivity gains within Sydney Water
• Welcome price reductions such as for the sewer usage charge, but ASBG is concerned about where the missing revenue will be recovered from.
• ASBG recommends that the substantial changes to trade waste charges a transitional pricing structure to introduce the new trade waste charges over a period of 4 years.
• Using pH as a credit off-set to assist in increasing pH in sewage.

Attachments:

Sydney Water's darft Trade Waste Pricing Policy	443 kB
ASBG's submission on Sydney Water's Pricining Proposal	248 kB