Waters Protection Ordinance
(WPO)

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of 28 October 1998 (Status as of 1 January 2021)


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Art. 16 Measures with reference to exceptional events

1 The per­sons re­spons­ible for waste wa­ter treat­ment plants that dis­charge waste wa­ter in­to a body of wa­ter and per­sons re­spons­ible for en­ter­prises who dis­charge in­dus­tri­al waste wa­ter in­to a waste wa­ter treat­ment plant must take ap­pro­pri­ate and eco­nom­ic­ally ac­cept­able meas­ures to re­duce the risk of pol­lu­tion of a body of wa­ter arising from ex­cep­tion­al events.

2 If in spite of these meas­ures the risk is un­ac­cept­able, the au­thor­it­ies shall or­der the ne­ces­sary ad­di­tion­al meas­ures.

3 Reg­u­la­tions in the Ma­jor Ac­ci­dents Or­din­ance of 27 Feb­ru­ary 199110 and the Or­din­ance of 20 Novem­ber 199111 on the Guar­an­tee of Drink­ing Wa­ter Sup­plies in Emer­gen­cies that go fur­ther are re­served.

10 SR 814.012

11 SR 531.32

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