Cholderton and District Water Company Limited supplies drinking water to about 2,500 people in the villages of Cholderton and Shipton Bellinger. The Company's water supply comes from two boreholes, one operational and one standby; the standby source was not used for supply purposes during 1995. The Company has one treatment works and distributes water through a network 44km of pipes and one service reservoir.


Each year water companies are inspected. The 1995 inspection found that the Company's arrangements for sampling, analysis and reporting were very good and that treatment processes were satisfactory. Progress with the improvement programme was found to be satisfactory. Three recommendations for improvement in practices were made.


The quality of the water supplied by the Company in 1995 has been very good, with 100% of the 513 tests performed by the Company meeting the standards - the tests were largely made on samples taken from consumers' taps.


The graph above shows the continued good water quality over the last five years. The Company plans to improve the quality even further. It has given a legally binding commitment to investigate the causes of the atrazine by March 1996 and, if necessary, to install treatment for its removal, although no failures have occurred this year.


If you want more detailed information about the quality of the drinking water in your local area please contact the Company. Their telephone number is 0198 0629 203.

     


The Drinking Water Inspectorate checks that your drinking water is properly tested and that action is taken to put right breaches of standards. The results of the tests given overleaf have been carefully audited and give an accurate picture of the quality of water supplied by the company.

Drinking water standards in England and Wales include all those in the European Community Directive on drinking water and are mainly based on levels recommended by the World Health Organisation. Those of significance to health have generally been set with a wide safety margin. The occasional breaches of the standards which have happened do not mean the water was not suitable for drinking.

The Inspectorate assesses each breach of the standards and if necessary requires water companies to give legally binding undertakings to carry out improvements.

The summary of the 1995 Report gives the results of tests for England and Wales as a whole and sets out in more detail how the quality of your drinking water is checked and the significance of each of the listed substances. Printed copies of each Water Company Summary, and the Summary of the 1995 Report are available from :

The Drinking Water Inspectorate
Room B155
Romney House
43 Marsham Street
London SW1P 3PY

Telephone: 0171 276 8808/8666

     
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Reviewed 1 October 1996