Hi, I'm hoping other members can offer thoughts/experience regarding the following before I contact South West Water to discuss (hopefully better prepared/informed).
Am about to disconnect water supplies to an old water trough and an old water bowl with nudge-plate. Neither needed right now and both very iffy, anyway, as regards water supply 'safety', so best they are gone. The idea was that I would then substitute a single standpipe with union tap for the water bowl (which is smack in the centre of my land) to provide potable water and hose-pipe connection for watering plant beds as necessary. Of course, I then started investigating water reg's - aah! "Agricultural" use of union tap normally assigned Fluid Category 5. Ok, I might add in a bib tap for potable water outlet, but still need to work around the hose-pipe supply issue, ideally avoiding the usual FC5 air gap requirement (which would need a storage tank and a pump to pressurize the supply to hose-pipe - to note, I do not have mains electricity, although I do have a 500W generator, but would prefer not to have to use it and buy a water pump).
As my activity is horticultural (no live-stock for the foreseeable future) and the outlet will be remote from any potential hydrocarbon etc contamination, I'm hoping a risk assessment will achieve a 'dispensation', i.e. a lower Fluid Category classification for the outlet.
Before I make my approach to SWW, any thoughts would be most gratefully received!