MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTVIETNAM ENVIRONMENT ADMINISTRATIONTHEMATIC REPORTS
National technical regulation on domestic
wastewater and regulations on wastewater
monitoring in Vietnam
VIETNAM ENVIRONMENT ADMINISTRATION

Hanoi, 09/2019

CONTENT
1.Introduction of QCVN 14: 2008 / BTNMT - National
technical regulation on domestic wastewater
2.Regulations on wastewater treatment in Vietnam
3.Regulations on monitoring for wastewater treatment
facilities
4.Some orientations for building documents in the nearfuture

1. Introduction of QCVN 14: 2008/BTNMT– National technical regulation on
domestic wastewater

QCVN 14:2008/BTNMTQCVN 14:2008/BTNMT was written by theCompilation Board of national technical regulations onwater quality, submitted by the General Department ofEnvironment and Legal Department for approval andissued under the Decision No. 16/2008/QD-BTNMT
dated December 31st, 2008 of the Minister of Naturalresources and Environment.
 SCOPE OF ADJUSTMENT:

 + This regulation specifies the permissible maximum
value of the pollution parameters in the effluent oftextile industry as being discharged into theenvironment.

 + Do not apply this Regulation for domestic
wastewater
discharged
intowastewater treatment system.

theconcentrated

QCVN 14:2008/BTNMTTable 1: Value of pollution parameters as a basis for calculating
the permissible maximum value in domestic wastewater.

QCVN 14:2008/BTNMTIN WHICH:
Column A specifies value of pollution parameters as abasis for calculating the permissible maximum value indomestic wastewater as being discharged into water
resources used for the purpose of domestic water supply(with water quality equivalent to that in column A1 and A2of the national technical Regulation on surface waterquality).

Column B specifies C value of pollution parameters as abasis for calculating the permissible maximum value indomestic wastewater as being discharged into water
resources not used for the purpose of domestic watersupply (with water quality equivalent to that in column B1
and B2 of the national technical Regulation on surface
water or coastal water quality).

QCVN 14:2008/BTNMTTable 2: Value of K coefficient corresponding to type of service
facilities, public facilities, apartment buildings.

QCVN 14:2008/BTNMTThe method for determination of pollution parameters
in domestic wastewater shall comply with guidance ofnational standards or corresponding analytical standards ofinternational organizations:-TCVN 6492-1999 (ISO 10523-1994) – Water quality –Determination of pH.

-TCVN 6001-1995 (ISO 5815-1989) - Water quality Determination of biochemical oxygen demand after 5days (BOD 5) - Dilution and seeding method.

-TCVN 6625-2000 (ISO 11923-1997) - Water quality Determination of suspended solid by filtration throughglass fiber filter.

-TCVN 6053-1995 (ISO 9696-1992) - Water quality –Determination of total dissolved solids.

-TCVN 4567-1988 - Water quality - Determination of theoriginal sulfide and sulfate...

2. Regulations on wastewater
treatment in Vietnam

LAW ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 2014
 Regulations

on wastewater treatment law onenvironmental protection 2014

-Article 66, 67: The industrial parks, exportprocessing zones, and hi-tech zones must have: Theconcentrated wastewater collection and treatment
system are conformable with environmental
regulations; there is an automatic and continuous
wastewater monitoring system as well as wastewaterflow rate meters.

-Article 70: The People’s Committees of provinces
that have trade villages are obliged to: Direct thedevelopment of wastewater collection and treatment
systems; gathering sites for conventional solid wastes
and hazardous wastes produced by trade villages.

LAW ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 2014
 Regulations on wastewater treatment law onenvironmental protection 2014
-Article 80: Clause 6 – “Scattered residential
areas must have places and system forcollecting and treating wastes, clean watersupply systems, and activities to develop agreen, clean, and safe environment”.

-Article 100: Every urban area and concentrated
residential area must have a system forseparating rainwater and wastewater.

Regulations on municipal wastewater
treatment
In addition, the regulations on drainage inurban areas and rural residential areas are
specified in the Decree No. 80/2014/ND-CP dated
August 06th, 2014, on the drainage andtreatment of wastewater.
3. Regulations on monitoring for
wastewater treatment facilities

Regulations on automatic monitoring of wastewater
According to Clause 20, Article 2 of Decree 40/2019/ND-CP, the following
subjects must perform automatic wastewater monitoring:a) Industrial parks and facilities in industrial parks which are exempt fromconnection to the concentrated wastewater treatment system;b) Business entities of a kind of manufacturing possibly causing
environmental pollution prescribed in Appendix IIa Section I issued
herewith and having volume of discharge 500m3/day (24 hours) or
higher according to the design capacity of the wastewater treatment
system;c) Hazardous waste treatment facilities, centralized solid waste treatment
facilities at provincial scale and facilities which use imported scrap as
production materials and discharge industrial wastewater or leachate toenvironment, and subject to preparation of EIA reports;d) Business entities not specified in Points a, b and Point c of this Clauseand having volume of discharges of 1,000m3/day (24 hours) or higher
according to the design capacity of the wastewater treatment system;e) Facilities which carried administrative penalties for discharging
wastewater exceeding technical regulations on environment but still
repeat that offense or committed such offense multiple times before
facing the penalties;f) Other entities decided by the People’s Committee of province.

Regulations on regular monitoring of wastewater
According to Clause 20, Article 2 of Decree 40/2019/NDCP the following subjects must perform and frequency ofregular wastewater monitoring: Ongoing facilities, industrial parks and projects having scale and capacity

equivalent to the projects/plans subject to EIA report and total volume ofwastewater discharged to environment (according to the total design
capacity of wastewater treatment systems or the volume of wastewater
approved in the EIA report and equivalent documents) is 20m3/day (24 hours)or higher, excluding connecting points to concentrated wastewater treatment
system of the industrial park shall perform regular wastewater monitoring
every 3 months
 Ongoing facilities, industrial parks and projects having scale and capacity

equivalent to the projects/plans subject to registration of environment
protection plan and total volume of wastewater discharged to environment(according to the total design capacity of wastewater treatment systems or
the volume of wastewater registered in the environmental protection plan) is
20m3/day (24 hours) or higher, excluding connecting points to concentrated
wastewater treatment system of the industrial park shall perform regularwastewater monitoring every 6 months

4. Some orientations for building
documents in the near futureA number of documents are being built and therevised plan.
 Developa circular guiding Decree 40/2019/

ND-CP
 Develop the Law to amend the content of theLaw on Environmental Protection 2014
 Develop and issue a comprehensive system ofnational technical regulations on environment

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