The size of the house site limited our options for the location of a borehole that complied with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency’s guidance, regarding ensuring sufficient separation from the property’s private septic tank and associated soakaway. The only option was to attempt to establish a borehole water well.

We also established that the nearest Scottish Water main was five kilometres away, so it would be prohibitively expensive to connect to this. We undertook a survey of both the land within the boundary of his site and of neighbouring land but were not able to locate any natural spring sources. We were contacted by the owner of a single property near Whitebridge who was fed up with the existing water supply because of poor quality, coloured water which usually failed Highland Council’s annual water quality sample checks. The Water Intended for Human Consumption (Private Supplies) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 The Private Water Supplies (Scotland) Regulations 2006 The Private Water Supplies (England) Regulations 2016 (as amended 2018) The Private Water Supplies (Wales) Regulations 2017. In situations where a single supply serves multiple properties under different ownership we have installed water and electricity meters that enable apportionment of costs. dried up), or water quality is highly variable and unreliable. Here, it might be a case of installing appropriate equipment for improving either the supply pressure or the water quality, or it may entail establishing an entirely new source for the water supply if the existing supply has failed (i.e. We also upgrade sub-standard water supplies for existing properties.

We will undertake a site inspection to assess the best water source for your development. In these situations, we usually try to assist the building contractor by installing temporary water supply arrangements that facilitate the house-build process, as well as often providing a potable supply for site personnel.

We install private water supplies for new properties.

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