Private water supplies
Private water supplies - list of charges
Activity: |
Example charging scheme |
Comments |
| Risk assessment | Officer time at £48 per hour | Frequency usually every 5 years |
| Sampling | Officer time at £48 per hour plus lab fees at cost (available on request) | Frequency depends on a number of factors |
| Investigation | Officer time at £48 per hour plus lab fees at cost (available on request) | Where further investigation is needed to complete a risk assessment or to investigate failures |
| Analysis: | ||
| Under Reg 10 (domestic supplies) | £30.47 |
Where a supply serves fewer than 50 people or supplies less than 10m3 per day and is used only for domestic purposes. Sampling and risk assessment are normally done every 5 years. |
| Under Reg 9 (Large supplies or commercial/ public activity) | £59.77 |
Where a supply serves more than 50 people or supplies more than 10m3 per day, or where there is a public building (eg village hall) or a commercial activity (eg tenanted property, holiday let, camping, bed and breakfast). Risk assessment is done every 5 years and samples are at least once a year. |
| Audit monitoring (commercial supplies) | £239.30 if all parameters are sampled (which is unlikely) | For risk assessments all possible contaminents must be analysed. |
- Where more than one property is on the supply, the total costs are divided equally between all properties except where the sample is taken only because of commercial activity
- There is no fee to pay where a sample is taken and analysed solely to confirm or clarify the results of a previous sample eg due to lab error
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