Advice Note No. 8: Developing Drinking Water Safety Plans, January 2013
Year: 2013
This Advice Note provides guidance to Water Services Authorities on the steps involved in constructing a water safety plan and an outline of what it should contain in the Irish context. It contains guidance on hazard identification, risk assessment and the preparation of action plans for the hazards identified.
Advice Note No. 6 Restoring Public Water Supplies Affected by Flooding, January 2013
Year: 2013
Guidance for Local Authorities on Water Quality checks that should be undertaken as part of the process of restoring public water supplies affected by flooding.
Advice Note No. 7: Source Protection and Catchment Management to Protect Groundwater Sources, January 2013
Year: 2013
This Advice Note provides guidance to Water Services Authorities on groundwater protection policies, guidance and related legislation that WSAs should have regard to when developing measures to protect groundwater. It covers the preparation of groundwater protection plans including zones of contribution, source protection zones, groundwater protection zones and setback distances.
Advice Note No. 5: Turbidity in Drinking Water, January 2013
Year: 2013
This Advice Note sets out the EPA guidance on the actions that are necessary in water treatment plants where elevated levels of turbidity are detected.
Advice Note No 4. Version 2: Disinfection By-Products in Drinking Water, January 2013
Year: 2013
The purpose of this advice note is to provide guidance to operators to ensure that the levels of disinfection byproducts is kept as low as possible.
Advice Note No. 3: E.coli in Drinking Water, January 2013
Year: 2013
This Advice Note sets out EPA guidance on the actions that are necessary following the detection of E. coli and also the preventative measures that should be taken to improve the security of the supply to prevent a repeat failure in the future. This is provided in the context of the EPA recommended approach to managing a drinking water supply i.e. the Water Safety Plan Approach.
Advice Note No. 2: Action programmes to restore the quality of drinking water impacted by lead pipes and lead plumbing., January 2013
Year: 2013
The purpose of this guidance circular is to provide information to local authorities on action programmes to restore the quality of drinking water that is impacted by lead pipes and plumbing. A separate guidance circular has been issued covering lead compliance monitoring and surveys (EPA Drinking Water Advice Note No. 1)
Advice Note No. 1: Lead Compliance Monitoring and Surveys, January 2013
Year: 2013
The purpose of this guidance circular is to provide additional information to local authorities on lead compliance monitoring and surveys. This is done in the context of compliance with the current lead parametric value of 25 μg/l and the parametric value of 10 μg/l, which will be effective from 2013.
Year: 2012
Drinking Water Audit Report in respect of Audit carried out on 15/11/2012 at the Leixlip Public Drinking Water Supply.
Year: 2011
This manual is a revision of the 1998 EPA Disinfection Manual. The updated manual has been revised to reflect best practice in drinking water disinfection and the supervisory role of the EPA. It provides practical guidance in plant operation, management, maintenance and supervision as well as an overview of the current disinfection technologies available.
Public Water Supplies: A handbook on the Implementation of the Regulations for Water Service Authorities for Public Water Supplies., May 2010
Year: 2010
This handbook has been prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency (the EPA) to assist the Water Services Authorities (WSAs) to implement the provisions of the European Communities (Drinking Water) (No. 2) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 278 of 2007) (the Regulations) in respect of public water supplies provided by the WSAs.
Private Water Supplies: A Handbook on the Implementation of the Regulations for Water Services Authorities for Private Water Supplies, May 2010
Year: 2010
This handbook has been compiled to provide guidance to private water suppliers and the Water Services Authorities as the supervisory authority on the implementation of the European Communities (Drinking Water) (No. 2) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 278 of 2007) in respect of private water supplies
Year: 2002
This manual on Coagulation, Flocculation & Clarification sets out the general principles and practices which should be followed in the production of drinking water