Collection works — France as a whole

Works extracted from the National Bank of Quantitative Water Stakes (BNPE). It is therefore not an exhaustive dataset of the sampling works. A sampling work refers to a set of technical devices for the collection, storage and pipeline of water, originating from a resource and intended for primary use. A sampling work usually corresponds to an anthropogenic system, i.e., derived from human activity, developed and maintained by humans, with a view to taking water of significant quantities. A sampling work is connected to a single water resource, via one or more geographically individualised sampling points, when these are known and well-identified. A sampling point shall materialise a physical connection point between the water resource and a technical water catchment device relating to the sample structure in question. A collection work MUST be determined in such a way as to obtain as best as possible the overall volume taken from the resource. It MAY be composed of several sampling points if there are as many technical water catching devices connected to the same resource at different locations, as the waters collected at these points are usually mixed upstream or downstream of the metering device(s) (water meters), contributing to the overall volume taken from the resource, at the scale of the sampling structure. The waters captured by each of these points must come from the same resource. The perimeter relating to a sampling work MUST be determined independently of the method of distribution of the water taken and carried out downstream of the sampling structure, to receiving media and different uses (cultural parks for irrigation, lines or treatment units for drinking water, industrial process units, receiving water resources, water towers, etc.). The operation of a sampling work may be based on one or more modes of physical extraction of water (gravity or diversion, pumping, etc.), with a single extraction method generally applied at each of its sampling points. Where there is a co-ownership of the equipment constituting a collection work, the contracting authority must be that which has been declared as such to its parenting body. The maintenance and operation of a collection work is under the legal and administrative responsibility of a single operator (or manager), who may be identical to the contracting authority, during a period covered by the start and end dates of taking office. A sampling work is located on one and only one main municipality, itself identified by its INSEE code. In the case of a coastal water collection work, it is considered to be located in the municipality with administrative responsibility for the maritime territory or the coastal area in which the sampling work is located. __Partner organisations__ ASH, BNPE (AFB, BRGM) __Links annexes__ * [see Dictionary & Water Resources Collections (PRL) "](http://id.eaufrance.fr/ddd/prl/2.1) * [see online sampling works control report](http://mdm.sandre.eaufrance.fr/geo/rapportsv3/rapport/131) * [consult the monitoring report of water sampling points online](http://mdm.sandre.eaufrance.fr/geo/rapportsv3/rapport/132) [See this page on geo.data.gouv.fr](https://geo.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/7b8aefbd3fb6cb1e7646f4bc4e9b0ddec2e40a27)