EIR Request - Private Water Supplies in Moray
Request 101003514312
I am writing to request information under The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA) and / or the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations.
We are looking for all information you hold on Private Water Supplies in the council area.
The purpose of this request is to gather information on existing water supplies in the council area, so we can properly assess the potential effects that any potential new water abstractions installed could have on the local environment and existing water supplies.
As a guide, we would be looking for information such as:
• Location / co-ordinates
• CAR licence or registration details (including permitted abstraction volume)
• Date of installation
• Type of water supply
• Depth of any borehole, and water level in any borehole
• Details of any inspections or testing that may have been completed
However, we would gladly accept any additional information you my hold beyond the above list.
Response 21-03-2024
Please see below the response to your request:
• Location / co-ordinates: as this information is already publicly available, in accordance with section 6(1)(b) of the Regulations we do not have to provide it. This data is provided by Spatial Open Data Portal - please see instructions below on how to access.
• CAR licence or registration details (including permitted abstraction volume): Not held and/or held in a non-retrievable format. Information that is not held falls under Section 10(4)(a) of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004- Information not held.
• Date of installation (provided via attachment)
• Type of water supply (provided via attachment)
• Depth of any borehole, and water level in any borehole: Not held and/or held in a non-retrievable format. Information that is not held falls under Section 10(4)(a) of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 - Information not held.
• Details of any inspections or testing that may have been completed (provided via attachment)
Details requested regarding location of sources are available from our Spatial Open Data Portal, if the requestor is unfamiliar with spatial data, there is an option to download as CSV which can be opened in programmes like MS Excel.
Links to the data:-
https://data-moray.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/moray::private-water-supplies-source-moray/about
https://data-moray.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/moray::private-water-supplies-user-moray/about
Reg 2 (previously Cat A) are supplies which are commercial (including private lets) or more than 50 persons Category B are non-commercial with less than 50 persons.
NOTE:- The location data we hold for the private water supplies is not 100% accurate (easting's and northing's can be out but we are currently working on improving these through GPS, unfortunately we cannot provide a figure on the accuracy, some maybe just in a general area of the property it serves).
The data may contain multiple records for the same source reference, this may be where either multiple source abstractions points are located or there are other private water supply infrastructure located eg storage tanks. The location Type indicates the type:- A or A1 etc = Source, B or B1 etc = supply infrastructure, U or U1 etc = unused supply infrastructure. Sites marked with "Y" confirmed are for sites where we have visited site and obtained more accurate locations. The list does not include historic private water supplies. The data is provided based on the best information available to the council at the time of writing.
Further private water supply information can be obtained from http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_55031.html Access to our register of sources http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_86203.html
Disclaimer. Moray Council will not accept any liability for any costs incurred by the recipient or by any third parties arising from or as a result of any inaccuracies in the information provided by us in relation to the location of a particular Private Water Supply. Recipients are asked to note that the information provided will be taken from information provided by Private Water Supply Users, the accuracy or otherwise of which may not have been verified by the Council.