Risk assessment for Cryptosporidium
27.—(1) It shall be the duty of the water undertaker to carry out an annual risk assessment for Cryptosporidium at all its water treatment works.
(2) Where the water undertaker carries out a risk assessment under paragraph (1) it shall submit to the Department a report of the assessment which shall set out the results of the assessment and a statement that the assessment has established—
(a)that there is a significant risk from Cryptosporidium; or
(b)that there is no such risk.
(3) Where the risk assessment carried out by the water undertaker under paragraph (1) establishes that there is a significant risk at a water treatment works for Cryptosporidium then the undertaker shall—
(a)introduce at the treatment works a continuous monitoring programme; and
(b)take measures, as agreed with the Department, to reduce the risk of Cryptosporidium to low as identified by the risk assessment carried out in accordance with paragraph 3.7 of the Guidance for Cryptosporidium.