CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

In application of 2° of article L. 2224-7-3, the solutions implemented by municipalities or their public cooperative bodies to improve access to water intended for human consumption may be permanent or temporary depending on the situation and may involve fixed or mobile equipment. They may not have the effect of creating risks for the health and safety of the population. Depending on the nature of the shortcomings in access to…

Information for people with no or limited access to water intended for human consumption, as provided for in 3° of article L. 2224-7-3, may be carried out by making data relating to the geographical location of water supply points and their technical characteristics available on the French public data platform website. An order by the ministers responsible for the environment and local authorities sets out the list of data that…

The provisions of this section apply to the wastewater mentioned in articles L. 2224-8 et L. 2224-10. For the purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: -“sewerage agglomeration” means an area in which the population and economic activities are sufficiently concentrated to make it possible to collect wastewater for conveyance to a treatment plant or final discharge point ; -“gross organic pollution load” means the weight of oxygen…

Non-collective sanitation zones may be set up in those parts of a municipality where the installation of a wastewater collection system is not justified, either because it is not in the interest of the environment or public health, or because its cost would be excessive.

The public enquiry prior to the delimitation of the zones mentioned in article L. 2224-10 is conducted by the mayor or the president of the competent public establishment for inter-communal cooperation, in the forms provided for by the articles R. 123-1 to R. 123-27 of the Environment Code.

The file submitted to the enquiry includes a draft delimitation of the commune’s sanitation zones, showing the sanitation settlements included within the zoning perimeter, and a notice justifying the planned zoning.

Communes all or part of whose territory is included in a sanitation agglomeration whose populations and economic activities produce wastewater with a gross organic pollution load of more than 120 kg per day must be equipped, for the relevant part of their territory, with a wastewater collection system. An order by the ministers responsible for health and the environment sets the minimum technical requirements to ensure that wastewater collection and…

Water entering a wastewater collection system must, except in the case of unusual situations, particularly those due to heavy rainfall, be subjected to treatment before being discharged into the natural environment, under the conditions set out in articles R. 2224-12 to R. 2224-17 below. An order of the ministers responsible for health and the environment sets the minimum technical requirements to ensure the effectiveness of wastewater treatment, in particular with…

In wastewater agglomerations whose population and economic activities produce wastewater with a gross organic pollution load of less than or equal to 120 kg per day, the treatment mentioned in article R. 2224-11 must enable compliance with the quality objectives applicable to receiving waters by the décret n°91-1283 du 19 décembre 1991, by the water development and management master plan for the basin to which these agglomerations belong and, where…

In wastewater agglomerations whose population and economic activities produce wastewater with a gross organic pollution load of more than 120 kg per day, the treatment mentioned in article R. 2224-11 is biological treatment with secondary decantation or treatment with equivalent purifying power. However, wastewater treated at altitudes of more than 1,500 metres may be subject to less stringent treatment than that prescribed in the first paragraph, provided that it is…