The Private Water Supplies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017

Frequency of sampling

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4.—(1) Sampling for a Group B parameter must be undertaken at the frequencies specified in Table 4 for those parameters.

TABLE 4
Minimum frequency of sampling for Group B parameters
Volume m3 /day (calculated as averages taken over a calendar year)Sampling frequency per year
≤ 10001
> 1000 ≤ 10,0001 + 1 for each 3,300 m3/day of the total volume (rounding up to the nearest multiple of 3,300 m3/day)
> 10,000 ≤ 100,0003 + 1 for each 10,000 m3/day of the total volume (rounding up to the nearest multiple of 10,000 m3/day)
> 100,00010 + 1 for each 25,000 m3/day of the total volume (rounding up to the nearest multiple of 25,000 m3/day)