The Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 2001 (revoked)

Treatment for cryptosporidium E+W

29.—(1) A water undertaker which, immediately before 1st January 2002, is subject to a requirement under regulation 23A of the 1989 Regulations to comply with the requirements of regulation 23B of those Regulations shall, for the purposes of the following provisions of this regulation and of regulation 28 of these Regulations, be treated on and after 1st January 2002 as subject to a requirement under regulation 28 to comply with regulation 29 requirements.

(2) A water undertaker [F1 or combined licensee] which is, or is treated as, required under regulation 28 to comply with regulation 29 requirements shall, in carrying out such of its functions under Part III of the Act as relate to the supply of water for regulation 4(1) purposes, use a process for treating the water intended to be supplied which secures that the average number of cryptosporidium oocysts per 10 litres of water is less than one.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), a process secures that the average number of cryptosporidium oocysts per 10 litres of water is less than one only if—

(a) the water is sampled, and collection devices are analysed, in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation; and

(b) each collection device, when analysed under paragraph (12) or (13), indicates that the water sampled has been treated so as to secure that the average number of cryptosporidium oocysts per 10 litres of water is less than one.

(4) A water undertaker [F2 or combined licensee] which is, or is treated as, required under regulation 28 to comply with regulation 29 requirements shall, in using the process referred to in paragraph (2), monitor its effectiveness by securing compliance with the requirements of paragraphs (5) to (15).

(5) Subject to paragraph (6), a continuous sample of water, consisting of at least 40 litres per hour on average during each sampling period, shall be taken from each point at which water leaves the treatment works and steps shall be taken to ensure that the sample is not contaminated when being taken.

(6) Where water which is subjected to the same treatment at the same treatment facilities before it leaves a treatment works leaves the works from more than one point, paragraph (5) shall require a continuous sample to be taken at only one of those points.

(7) For the purposes of the requirement in paragraph (5) to take a continuous sample of water, no account shall be taken of—

(a) an interruption in the taking of the sample of less than one hour due to the changing of a collection device in accordance with paragraph (9); or

(b) an interruption in the taking of the sample during a period when water is not being supplied from the monitoring point.

(8) A sample of water taken pursuant to paragraph (5) shall, as it is taken and without any further treatment, be passed through an approved collection device contained in approved sampling equipment which records the volume of water sampled.

(9) Subject to paragraph (10), a water undertaker [F3 or combined licensee] shall change the collection device through which water is being passed in accordance with paragraph (8) at least once a day by removing it in an approved manner from the relevant sampling equipment and replacing it in an approved manner with a clean collection device; and a record shall be made of the volume of water passed through the collection device which has been removed and that record shall be retained for a period of one year or such longer period as the National Assembly for Wales may, by notice in writing to the water undertaker [F3 or combined licensee], require.

(10) Where, due to interruptions in the taking of a sample during periods when water is not being supplied from a monitoring point, the rate of water passed through a collection device is less than 200 litres per day, a water undertaker [F4 or combined licensee] shall not be required to change the collection device in accordance with paragraph (9) until the day on which the total volume of water that has passed through the device equals or exceeds 200 litres.

(11) A collection device removed from sampling equipment shall, prior to being analysed, be maintained in an approved manner so as to secure that there is no material alteration of the state of the device which could affect the results of the analysis.

(12) A collection device shall, subject to paragraph (13), within three days of the date on which it is removed from the sampling equipment be analysed for the purposes of establishing whether it contains cryptosporidium oocysts at a level which indicates that the water sampled has not been treated so as to secure that the average number of cryptosporidium oocysts per 10 litres of water is less than one.

(13) Where—

(a) there is a significant increase in the turbidity of water being sampled for the purpose of this regulation; or

(b) some other indication that the number of cryptosporidium oocysts in the water may have increased,

a water undertaker [F5 or combined licensee] shall immediately change the collection device through which the water is being passed, and the removed collection device shall be analysed as soon as practicable and in any case not later than the end of the day after that on which it was removed.

(14) The analysis of collection devices for the purposes of this regulation shall be carried out at an approved laboratory using approved equipment and approved analytical systems and methods.

(15) Following the analysis of a collection device for the purposes of this regulation, the person by whom or under whose supervision the analysis has been carried out shall, within the applicable time limit for the analysis set out in paragraph (12) or (13), certify the results of the analysis, setting out the average number of cryptosporidium oocysts per 10 litres of water contained in the water sampled, as indicated by the level of cryptosporidium oocysts contained in the collection device.

(16) In this regulation—

• “approved” means approved by the National Assembly for Wales for the purpose of this regulation; and

• “day” means the period of 24 hours commencing immediately after midnight.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 29(2) inserted (1.12.2005) by The Water Act 2003 (Consequential and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2035), regs. 1(4), 11(23)

F2 Words in reg. 29(4) inserted (1.12.2005) by The Water Act 2003 (Consequential and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2035), regs. 1(4), 11(23)

F3 Words in reg. 29(9) inserted (1.12.2005) by The Water Act 2003 (Consequential and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2035), regs. 1(4), 11(23)

F4 Words in reg. 29(10) inserted (1.12.2005) by The Water Act 2003 (Consequential and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2035), regs. 1(4), 11(23)

F5 Words in reg. 29(13) inserted (1.12.2005) by The Water Act 2003 (Consequential and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2035), regs. 1(4), 11(23)