Section 2: Water and sanitation

Failure to pay within three months of presentation of the receipt and within fifteen days of formal notice by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, the fee will be increased by 25%.

The revenue from wastewater treatment charges is used to finance the expenses of the wastewater treatment service. These expenses include in particular: – operating expenses of the service, including personnel expenses; – maintenance expenses; – interest expenses on debt contracted for the establishment and maintenance of facilities; – depreciation expenses on fixed assets.

The proceeds of sums payable under the third paragraph of Article L. 1331-1 and the articles L. 1331-2, L. 1331-3, L. 1331-6, L. 1331-7, L. 1331-8 and L. 1331-10 of the French Public Health Code is added to the revenue from charges and other revenues from the wastewater service, in particular those corresponding to aid and treatment premiums paid by water agencies, to be allocated to financing the costs of…

I. – Authorisation to implement a water pricing system that does not include a term directly proportional to the total volume consumed may only be granted if the total population of the commune, the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation or the mixed syndicate is less than one thousand inhabitants and if the water resource is naturally abundant in the sub-basin or in the groundwater used by the drinking water service….

I. – The provisions of IIIa of Article L. 2224-12-4 apply to increases in the volume of water consumed due to a leak in a drinking water pipe after the meter, excluding leaks due to household appliances and sanitary or heating equipment. II. – When the drinking water utility notices an abnormal increase in consumption on the basis of the meter reading recording the customer’s actual water consumption, it informs…

Municipal drinking water supplies ensure compliance with the requirements set by article R. 1321-2 of the public health code for water intended for human consumption.

Any abstraction device, well or borehole, the construction of which is planned to obtain water intended for domestic use within the meaning of article R. 214-5 du code de l’environnement, shall be declared to the mayor of the commune in whose territory this work is planned, no later than one month before the start of the work. The declaration shall be made by the owner of the work or, if…

The declarant completes the declaration within one month of completion of the work by notifying the mayor: 1° The date on which the work was completed; 2° Any changes made to any of the elements of the initial declaration; 3° A water quality analysis when the water is intended for human consumption, within the meaning of article R. 1321-1 of the Public Health Code. The sampling and analysis are carried…

The mayor shall acknowledge receipt, including by electronic means, of the initial declaration and the information supplementing it as soon as possible and no later than one month after the date of receipt. The mayor who registers this declaration and this information in the database set up for this purpose by the ministry responsible for ecology is deemed to have discharged the obligation to make it available which is imposed…

The inspection provided for by Article L. 2224-12 includes in particular: 1° An examination of the visible parts of the water abstraction device, well or borehole, in particular the protection and metering systems; 2° An assessment of the uses to which the water is put or may be put from this structure; 3° Verification that the distribution network for water from another resource is not connected to the public drinking…