Water and Sewerage (Catchment Area) Regulations 1995 (No. 13 of 1995)

1995 WATER AND SEWERAGE S.R.0.13 COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINICA STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS No. 13 oF 1995 REGULATIONS MADE by the Ministerunder section 13 of the Water and Sewerage Act, (Chap. 43:40). (Gazetted 13th April, 1995.) 1. These Regulations may be cited as the - Short title. WATER AND SEWERAGE (CATCHMENT AREA) REGULATIONS 1995. 2. In these Regulations - Interpretation. "water catchment" includes any area designated as a "protected forest" as defined in the Forests Act; • Ch. 60,01. "class A stream" means all rivers, lakes and streams - (a) having an average dry season stream-flow of more than eight million gallons per day; and (b) producing or capable of producing portable water, for domestic use or export; "class B stream" means all watercourses carrying permanent run- ning water at the average dry season flow rate of one to eight million gallons per day; and "class C stream" means all watercourses carrying water at the average dry season flow rate of less than one million gallons per day.

1995 WATER AND SEWERAGE S.R.0.13 Water catchment 3. All land upstream of the intake and within fifty metres of class A stream. each side of any class A stream forms part of the water catchment. Use of water 4. The following is incompatible use of a water catchment: catchment. (a) agricultural activity requiring the use of agro-chemi- cal inputs; (b) campmg: ( c) chainsaw harvest; (d) mechanised logging; and (e) road construction. Use of filter stri P- 5. (I) All land one hundred metres from the outer boundary of the fifty metres area referred to in section 3 forms a filter strip. (2) Selective logging may be carried out within the filter strip on the following conditions: • • - (a) hatvestirtg is restricted to over mature or sickly stems; (b) harvesting takes place in dry season conditions; ( c) not more .than ten per cent of the canopy is re- moved; (d) the lumber must be produced in-situ; and (e) trees are not felled into the water ~atchment as defined in section 3. (3) The filter strip may be util1$ed for education and scien- tific research on condition that activity.does not- (a) reduce water quality from the catchment area; or (b) require removal oftree<>ver. . ':. Water catchment 6. All land within twenty metres of each side of i;Uly class B or class Band C streams. C stream fonns part of the water catchment. Use of filter strip. 7~ (1) All land fifty metres froni the outer boundary of the twenty metres area of any class B stream fonns a filter strip.

1995 WATER AND SEWERAGE S.R.0.13 • (2) Harvesting of timber may be carried out within the filter strip on the following conditions: (a) all skid trails are restored by filling or flat-blading in dry season conditions; (b) harvesting takes place in dry season conditions; ( c) skidding is carried out in an uphill direction; and (d) skid trails do not cross any class B stream. 8. Any person who contravenes any provision of these Penalty. :_) Regulations commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars and six months imprisonment. Made this 3rd day of April, 1995. ALLEYNE J. CARBON Minister for Communications, Works and Housing. DOMINICA Printed by the Government Printer at the Government Printery, Roseau (Price 60 cents)