Private water supplies fees and charges
The fees and charges from 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 are as follows:
| Private water sampling | Cost £ |
|---|---|
| Risk assessment (minimum 2 hour charge applies) | £58.00 per hour |
| Risk assessment and sampling (minimum 2 hour charge applies) | £58.00 per hour plus cost of analysis |
| Sampling per visit | £96.00 plus cost of analysis |
| Investigation | £100.00 plus cost of analysis |
| Granting an authorisation | £100.00 |
|
Analysing a sample: under regulation 10 during monitoring of Group A parameters during monitoring of Group B parameters |
Actual cost of analysis |
| Sampling per visit, taken from domestic premises not routinely monitored under PWS Regulations |
£96.00 plus cost of analysis |
There is no fee payable where a sample is taken solely to confirm or clarify the result of a previous sample.
Please note that the Private Water Supplies (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 stipulate that a monitoring sample of a regulation 9 supply must be analysed for all parameters in Group B for at least 3 years. This will significantly increase the cost of analysis for these samples.