Pollution Control - Water
Environmental Health
What areas of water quality do Environmental Health Officers look at?
- Private Water Supplies: for those who extract their private water supply from boreholes.
- Bathing waters: to include swimming pools at leisure centres, Jacuzzi's, hydrotherapy pools.
- Mains Water: to include Manufacturers of foods and drinks as well as occasionally looking at domestic supply.
Details
Private Water Supplies
There are some 347 private water supplies which require sampling and testing for bacteriological and chemical quality. Where standards are not met we, with advice and support from the Health Protection Agency, can take legal action to require improvements. We also sample the mains water supply to ensure satisfactory standards.
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 out door pools, hospital hydrotherapy pools, jacuzzi's and paddling pools.
We check these on a monthly basis for chemical levels as well as yearly for microbiological quality (bacteria) unless there is a complaint or a problem with the chemical tests, in which case the frequency will be increased.
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'
Related Links
Pool Water Treatment Advisory Group
Office of Public Sector Information - Formerly "Her Majesty's Stationery Office"
Related Documents
Information on Water Treatment
Environmental Health and Street Scene Services Standards
| email: | envhealth@northshropshiredc.gov.uk |
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| telephone: | 01939 238460 |
| fax: | 01939 238468 |
