Waters Protection Ordinance
(WPO)

¹ For wa­ter with­draw­als serving in­stall­a­tions us­ing wa­ter power, the in­vent­ory shall in­clude (Art. 82 para. 1 WPA) as a min­im­um:

a.

a de­scrip­tion of the wa­ter with­draw­al and resti­tu­tion (names, co-or­din­ates, height above sea level and, where ap­pro­pri­ate, names of power sta­tions and dams);

b.

the be­gin­ning and dur­a­tion of the right of use gran­ted, its ex­tent, in par­tic­u­lar the amount of wa­ter ex­tract­able in m³/s as well as the name of the per­son en­titled to ex­tract (the user);

c.

the re­mov­able amount of wa­ter in m³/s;

d.

the re­sid­ual flow main­tained pre­vi­ously with de­tails of the loc­a­tion or the wa­ter en­dow­ment flow in l/s;

e.

oth­er ob­lig­a­tions to trans­fer wa­ter im­posed on the user;

f.

the par­ti­cip­a­tion of the user in main­tain­ing and cor­rect­ing the wa­ters;

g.

fur­ther con­di­tions or in­stall­a­tions in the in­terests of wa­ters pro­tec­tion and fish­er­ies;

h.

the Q347 flow rate, the flow re­gime of the wa­ter­course up­stream of the wa­ter with­draw­al point and the amount with­drawn every month in m³/s, ex­pressed as the av­er­age over sev­er­al years, to the ex­tent that this data is avail­able at the time the in­vent­ory is drawn up;

i.

wheth­er the wa­ter is with­drawn from a wa­ter­course flow­ing through land­scapes or hab­it­ats which are lis­ted in the na­tion­al or can­ton­al in­vent­or­ies.

² For with­draw­als us­ing fixed non-hy­dro­power equip­ment which may be au­thor­ised un­der Art­icle 30 let­ter a WPA, the in­vent­ory shall as a min­im­um state the pur­pose of the with­draw­al and the in­form­a­tion in para­graph 1, let­ters a, b, d, h, and i.

³ For with­draw­als us­ing fixed non-hy­dro­power equip­ment which may be au­thor­ised un­der Art­icle 30 let­ters b or c WPA, the in­vent­ory shall state the in­form­a­tion in para­graph 1 let­ters a and b.