The Public Water Supplies (Scotland) Regulations 2014

PART 11 RECORDS AND INFORMATION

Maintenance of records

37.—(1) Scottish Water must prepare and maintain, for each water supply zone, a record containing—

(a) the name of the zone;

(b) the name of every water treatment works, service reservoir and other supply point from which water is supplied to premises within the zone;

(c) an estimate of the population of the zone;

(d) particulars of any departure authorised under Part 7 which applies to water supplied in the zone;

(e) particulars of the action taken or required to be taken by it to comply with—

(i) any default order made pursuant to section 76E of the 1980 Act or Part 13;

(ii) any departure authorised under Part 7; and

(iii) any notice under regulation 22(2);

(f) particulars of the result of any analysis of samples taken pursuant to—

(i) Part 4;

(ii) regulation 16; and

(iii) regulation 31;

(g) a copy of each risk assessment, and any review, recorded under regulation 30; and

(h) such other particulars as Scottish Water may determine.

(2) Scottish Water must make—

(a) initial entries in the record in respect of the matters in paragraph (1)(a) to (d) and (e)(ii) within the period of two months beginning with 1st January 2015;

(b) entries in respect of each order or notice required by paragraph (1)(e)(i) and (iii) within a period of 28 days beginning with the date of the order and notice respectively; and

(c) entries relating to the results of the analysis of samples within a period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the result is first known to the authority.

(3) Without prejudice to paragraph (2), Scottish Water must at least once in each year review and bring up-to-date the record required to be kept by paragraph (1).

(4) Nothing in this regulation requires Scottish Water to retain a record of any information mentioned in paragraph (1) for a period of more than 15 years beginning with the date on which the information was first entered in the record.

Notification of health risk events

38.—(1) Except in so far as paragraph (2) applies, as soon as reasonably practicable after the occurrence of a health risk event, Scottish Water must notify the occurrence of the event to—

(a) the Drinking Water Quality Regulator for Scotland;

(b) each health board for the area in which the event occurs;

(c) Health Protection Scotland;

(d) each local authority for the area in which the event occurs; and

(e) the Scottish Ministers.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply in so far as the occurrence of a health risk event has already been notified to any such person, body or office-holder by virtue of the provisions in Part 6.

(3) A local authority or a health board that has received a notification under paragraph (1) may require Scottish Water to provide that local authority or, as the case may be, that health board with such information relating to the event and its consequences as they may reasonably require.

(4) In paragraphs (1) and (2), “health risk event” means an event which, by reason of its effect or likely effect on the water supplied by Scottish Water, gives rise or is likely to give rise to a significant risk to the health of persons residing in the area of a local authority or health board.

Publication of information

39.—(1) Scottish Water must, not later than 31st March in each year, publish on its website for each water supply zone a report relating to the preceding year.

(2) The report must specify—

(a) the number of samples taken from each water supply zone in the preceding year in respect of residual disinfectant and each parameter in Table A and Table B and—

(i) for each zone, the number and percentage of samples (of the total taken in the zone) which failed to comply with the corresponding prescribed concentration or value;

(ii) for each zone, the parameters (if any) which each sample failed to comply with; and

(iii) the number and percentage of the zones (in which those samples were taken) which failed to comply with the corresponding prescribed concentration or value; and

(b) the number of samples taken from each water supply zone in the preceding year in respect of each parameter in Table C and—

(i) for each zone, the number and percentage of samples (of the total taken in the zone) which failed to comply with the corresponding prescribed concentration or value;

(ii) for each zone, the parameters (if any) which each sample failed to comply with; and

(iii) the number and percentage of the zones (in which those samples were taken) which failed to comply with the corresponding prescribed concentrations or values.