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Water Quality
What areas of water quality do Environmental Health officers look at?
Private water supplies: for those who extract their private water supply from boreholes and natural springs.
Bathing waters: to include swimming pools at leisure centres, jacuzzis, hydrotherapy pools.
Mains water: to include manufacturers of foods and drinks as well as occasionally looking at domestic supply.
Details
Private Water Supplies
We have a number of domestic and commercial private water supplies for which the council monitors quality both microbiologically (bacteria) and chemically (e.g. pesticides).
The legislation we use is made under the Water Industry Act 1991 and is called the Private Water Supplies Regulations 1991.
This tells us what the standards of the water should be and how often we have to test the water depending upon its use.
Bathing Waters
We are responsible for checking the quality of all our swimming pools to include leisure centres, private health clubs, hotels and outdoor pools, hospital hydrotherapy pools, jacuzzis and paddling pools.
We check for chemical levels as well as for microbiological quality (bacteria) in accordance with our sampling programme.
Mains Water Supply
We also examine the quality of the mains water in our food manufacturers to include breweries and other food industries. We may occasionally become involved in the testing of domestic mains water in addition to the statutory water undertaker.
In addition, the Drinking Water Inspectorate, who are the national body for ensuring the quality of water, provide an annual publication titled 'How Good is Your Drinking Water'
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Please use the form below to enquire about water pollution.