The Private Water Supplies Regulations 2009 allow South Gloucestershire Council to charge any relevant person (i.e. owner) responsible for a private water supply a fee up to a specified maximum for carrying out a risk assessment and for carrying out monitoring (i.e. sampling and analysis).
An overview of our charging arrangements are set out in the table below:
| Service(activity) |
Maximum Charge Permitted (£) |
Our Charge |
Comments |
| Risk assessment |
500 |
Hourly rate (1) x time (2) |
Minimum charge £53, simple risk assessment and report typically 5 hours |
| Sampling |
100 |
£42 |
Charge for a visit and to take a sample |
| Investigation |
100 |
Hourly rate (1) x time (2) + any analysis costs |
Carried out in the event of test failure |
| Authorisation |
100 |
Hourly rate (1) x time (2) |
Application by the owner of a supply for permission to breach a standard temporarily whilst remedial work is carried out |
| Analysis: |
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Under Regulation 10(Domestic Supplies) |
25 |
£25 |
Where a supply provides <10m3 /day or <50 people and is used for domestic purposes |
| Check Monitoring (Commercial Supplies) |
100 |
£63 |
Check monitoring is carried out to ensure that water complies with the standards. Where possible it should be carried out at the same time as any requirement for Audit monitoring, to keep cost down |
| Audit Monitoring (Commercial Supplies) |
500 |
£63 + cost of each additional parameter |
Additional parameters sampled less often to ensure the water complies with all safety standards |
(1) - Hourly Rate = £39
(2) - Officer Time