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The Private Water Supplies Regulations 1991

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Category two supplies

10.—(1) For the purposes of this Part, subject to paragraph (2), a private supply is a category two supply if any water from the supply is supplied for food production purposes or is supplied for domestic purposes to premises used–

(a)as a staff canteen or for the purposes of a business involving the preparation of food or drink for consumption on the premises;

(b)as a hospital, nursing home, residential home, hostel, boarding school or other similar institution; or

(c)as a camp site or a site for touring caravans or for the purposes of a business involving the provision of holiday or other short term accommodation.

(2) A private supply shall not be a category two supply where–

(a)it is used for cleansing or cooling operations in connection with the processing of milk; and

(b)if it were not for that use, it would be classified as a category one supply,

unless it would fall within class E in which case it shall be classified as a class 5 supply.

(3) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (4), category two supplies shall be divided into classes in accordance with the following Table by reference to the average daily volume of water supplied for domestic or food production purposes.

Table

ClassAverage daily volume of water supplied for domestic or food production purposes in m3/day
1>1,000
2101 to 1,000
321 to 100
42 to 20
5<2

(4) A private supply which is used solely–

(a)for cleansing or cooling operations in connection with the processing of milk shall be classified as a class 5 supply; or

(b)for washing crops and which does affect the fitness for consumption of any food or drink in its finished form shall be classified as a class 4 supply, unless the average daily volume supplied for those purposes is less than 2 m per day, in which case it shall be classified as a class 5 supply.

(5) Subject to regulation 11, references in this regulation to the average daily volume of water supplied for domestic or food production purposes are references to such volume (calculated as a daily average) as the local authority shall estimate was distributed or, if not distributed, was used or consumed, for those purposes from the supply during the year prior to the year in which the classification takes place.

(6) A local authority may for the purposes of this regulation estimate the average daily volume of water supplied for domestic purposes on the assumption that five persons use one cubic metre of water per day.

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