Section 97 in Bihar Coal Mining Area Development Authority Rules, 1988
97. Analysis of water supply.
- The Authority shall arrange for the bacteriological and chemical analysis of the water to be made four times every year. The reports of each such analysis shall be forwarded as soon as possible to the Managing Director of the Authority who shall lake appropriate action on it. The Public Health Department or the Public Health Engineering Department as the case may be shall arrange for special analysis to be made at any time on requisitions of the Managing Director of the Authority as and when he consider it necessary. Besides the above, the Managing Director of the Authority shall arrange for periodical examinations of samples of water every week in the laboratory of the Authority. In that analysis, a bacteriological analysis shall be made of water from the combined outlet channel from the filtered beds, from each service reservoir and from at least three points in the distribution system. Similarly, the Managing Director of the Authority shall cause the chemical examination of the water to be made in the storage reservoir periodically. The clarification effected by filtration shall be ascertained by the determination of the turbidity of the water in the inlet and outlet walls of each filter bed in terms of miligrams of silica per litre of water:Provided that the test prescribed for testing the clarifications effected by filtration may, if the Authority so regards be carried out at the Head works instead of in the laboratory.
