1. (a-c) The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is not aware of the date of sale of the Beethoven Process Plant, whom it was sold to or when the plant changed ownership.
2. The owners of the wash plant have taken responsibility for the spillage and have conducted clean-up operations and submitted a detailed action plan and rehabilitation plan. This was in response to the Notice previously issued by the DWS. A follow up inspection conducted on 14 March 2024 indicated that Beethoven Organics has failed to fully implement the actions on the action plan that was submitted and there were further unlawful water use activities taking place. The Department is in a process of issuing a Directive to compel the company to discontinue unlawful water uses.
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