Public Health Risk Management Plan Guides for Drinking Water Supplies

Public Health Risk Management Plan Guides for Drinking Water Supplies

To assist drinking-water suppliers to develop public health risk management plans (PHRMPs) for their drinking-water supplies the Ministry of Health has produced a number of tools to help in this process.

These cover the following key areas:

Small Drinking-water Supplies

Date of publication: June 2005

This booklet template should be read in conjunction with the Water Safety Plan video or DVD and has been developed to help you to prepare a PHRMP for your small drinking-water supply.

The document provides a qualitative narrative and a series of worksheets to assist in this exercise. You are also encouraged to refer to PHRMP Guides containing the specific system elements most frequently found in drinking-water supplies.

Small Drinking-water Supplies

Note: The Ministry of Health has established a Drinking Water Assistance Programme. The key objective of this programme is to assist communities to have access to safe drinking-water. Please visit the Drinking Water Assistance Programme section for full details on this Programme

A Framework on How to Prepare and Develop Public Health Risk Management Plans for Drinking-water Supplies

Date of publication: June 2005

This document should be read prior to referring to any of the specific PHRMP Guides because it explains the risk management process and how the different guides are intended to be used to build up a PHRMP for a particular water supply.

A Framework on How to Prepare and Develop Public Health Risk Management Plans for Drinking-water Supplies

Training material

The Ministry has produced a number of valuable training videos and DVDs that are specifically aimed in assisting drinking-water supplies to formulate Public Health Risk Management Plans.

Document availability

To order one of these resources contact your Drinking-water Assessor at the Public Health Unit of your local District Health Board quoting the relevant reference number.

BluePrint for Safe Drinking-water: Small Community Drinking water Supplies - An Introduction to Risk Management Planning
DVD
Ref: HE 1331D

BluePrint for Safe Drinking-water: Small Community Drinking water Supplies An Introduction to Risk Management Planning
Video
Ref: HE 1331

Water Safety Plans for Small Drinking-water Supplies – A Public Health Risk Management Plan Tool
DVD
(to be read in conjunction with the booklet - Small Drinking-water Supplies)
Ref: HE 1630D

Water Safety Plans for Small Drinking-water Supplies – A Public Health Risk Management Plan Tool
Video
(to be read in conjunction with the booklet - Small Drinking-water Supplies)
Ref: HE 1630

Guides on the Specific Components of a Water Supply

Date of publication: June 2001

The following are a series of PHRMP guides covering the system elements (eg filtration, disinfection, water storage, distribution etc) that are most frequently found in drinking-water supplies. These are a valuable reference to be used in preparing a PHRMP.

Document availability

These publications are not available in hard copy. They are only available on this website in Word format below.

Source
Raw Water Version 1, Ref: S1 - [in preparation]

Surface and Groundwater Sources - Version 1 (Word, 168kB), Ref: S1.1

Surface and Groundwater Sources - Version 2 (Word, 197kB), Ref: S1.1

Roof Water Sources (Word, 153kB) Version 1, Ref: S1.2

Development of New Supplies Version 1, Ref: S2 - [in preparation]

Treatment
Source Abstraction Version 1, Ref: P1 - [in preparation]

Surface Water Abstraction – Rivers, Streams and Infiltration Galleries (Word, 202 kB) - Version 1, Ref: P1.1

Surface Water Abstraction – Lakes and Reservoirs (Word, 214kB) - Version 1, Ref: P1.2

Ground Water Abstraction – Bores and Wells (Word, 214kB) - Version 1, Ref: P1.3

Ground Water Abstraction – Springs (Word, 198kB) - Version 1, Ref: P1.4

Treatment Processes – Water Transmission (Word, 204kB) - Version 1, Ref: P2

Treatment Processes – Pre-Treatment Storage (Word, 213kB) - Version 1, Ref: P3

Pre-treatment Processes – Pre-treatment Processes Version 1, Ref: P4 - [in preparation]

Pre-treatment Processes – Algicide Application (Word 169kB) - Version 1, Ref: P4.1

Pre-treatment Processes – Destratification (Word, 184kB) - Version 1, Ref: P4.2

Pre-oxidation (Word, 157 kB) - Version 1, Ref: P4.3

Pre-treatment Processes – Waste Liquor Reintroduction (Word, 186kB) Version 1, Ref: P4.4

Treatment Processes – Coagulation/Flocculation Processes Version 1, Ref: P5 - [in preparation]

Treatment Processes – Con Coagulation/Flocculation/Sedimentation (Word, 231kB) - Version 1, Ref: P5.1

Treatment Processes – Dissolved Air Flotation (Word, 230kB) - Version 1, Ref: P5.2

Treatment Processes – Direct Filtration (Word, 231kB) - Version 1, Ref: P5.3

Treatment Processes – Filtration Version 1, Ref: P6 - [in preparation]

Treatment Processes – Rapid Sand Filtration (Word, 199kB) - Version 1, Ref: P6.1

Filtration – Slow Sand Filtration (Word, 167kB) - Version 1, Ref: P6.2

Treatment Processes – Cartridge Filtration (Word, 218kB) - Version 1, Ref: P6.3

Filtration - Diatomaceous Earth Filtration (Word, 163kB) - Version 1, Ref: 6.4

Treatment Processes – Membrane Filtration (Word, 200kB) - Version 1, Ref: P6.5

Treatment Processes – Disinfection - version 1, Ref: P7 [in preparation]

Treatment Processes – Chlorine Disinfection (Word, 267kB) - Version 1, Ref: P7.1

Treatment Processes – Chlorine Dioxide Disinfection (Word, 241kB) - Version 1, Ref: P7.2

Treatment Processes – Ozone Disinfection (Word, 217kB) - Version 1, Ref: P7.3

Treatment Processes – Ultraviolet Irradiation Disinfection (Word, 222kB) - Version 1, Ref: P7.4

Treatment Processes – Aesthetic Property Adjustment - Version 1, Ref: P8- [in preparation]

Treatment Processes – pH Adjustment (Word, 231 kB) - Version 1, Ref: P8.1

Treatment Processes – Iron and Manganese Removal (Word, 256kB) - Version 1, Ref: P8.2

Treatment Processes – Softening (Word, 207kB) - Version 1, Ref: P8.3

Treatment Processes – Trace Organics Removal (Word, 220kB) - Version 1, Ref: P8.4

Treatment Processes – Fluoridation (Word, 223kB) - Version 1, Ref: P9

Treatment Processes – Pump Operation (Word, 233 kB) - Version 1, Ref: P10

Treatment Processes – Plant Construction and Operation (Word, 239kB)Treatment Processes – Plant Construction and Operation - Version 1, Ref: P11

Distribution System

Distribution System – Post-Treatment Storage (Word, 249 kB) - Version 1, Ref: D1

Distribution System – Reticulation Network - Version 1, Ref: D2 - [in preparation]

Distribution System – Construction Materials - Version 1, Ref: D2.1 - [in preparation]

Distribution System – System Pressure (Word, 245kB) - Version 1, Ref: D2.2

Distribution System – Operation (Word, 304kB) - Version 1, Ref: D2.3

Distribution System – Backflow Prevention (Word, 282kB) - Version 1, Ref: D2.4

General Elements

General – Staff Training (Word, 68kB) - Version 1, Ref: G1

General – Monitoring (Word, 229kB) - Version 1, Ref: G2

Worked Examples

Worked Example of a Public Health Risk Management Plan for a Small Supply using Rainwater (Word, 196kB) - Version 1, Ref: W1

Worked Example of a Public Health Risk Management Plan for a Small Supply using Chlorinated Groundwater (Word, 232 kB) - Version 1, Ref: W2

These documents are created in Microsoft Word 2000. If you do not have this package, you can download a free viewer from the Microsoft website.