Private Water Supplies
A private water supply is one that is not provided by a water authority, such as Scottish Water. Instead the water may come from a loch, burn, pond, well, spring, borehole or a combination of sources.
A water supply may serve only one property or many different properties. The Perth and Kinross area has over 1200 private water supplies. Around 12,000 inhabitants and many more tourists are served by private water supplies.
Private water supplies are, by their nature, very vulnerable to contamination that may cause waterborne infections or other ill effects. Contamination can be bacteriological in nature, from faecal matter such as human sewage or animal droppings, or may arise from chemical sources, such as fertilizer run-off from fields or deterioration of distribution pipework.
Non means tested
grant funding of up to £800 per property may be available to you to improve your private water supply following a
risk assessment of the supply by Council staff.
Staff from The Environment Service routinely monitor high risk (serving more than 50 persons or commercial / public premises )private water supplies as part of their statutory duties. The information gathered is made available for public scrutiny in the form of a Public Register of Private Supplies.
If you have a query relating to Private Water Supplies please contact us using any of the options on the right or for more information log on to
www.privatewatersupplies.gov.uk
