814.201WPOFederal Council OrdinanceJan 1, 1999Original source
The cantons shall submit to the FOEN a plan for measures to remediate hydropower plants that cause hydropeaking in accordance with the procedure described in Annex 4a number 2.
The persons responsible for hydropower plants must grant access to the authority responsible for the plan and provide the required information, in particular on:
the coordinates and the designation the individual parts of the plant;
the flow rates of the watercourse concerned with measured values at intervals of no more than 15 minutes (hydrograph) over a period covering the past five years; If these measured values are not available, the hydrograph may be calculated using data relating to hydro-electric power production at the plant and the water flow;
the measures carried out and planned to reduce the effects of hydropeaking;
the available results of the study on the effects of hydropeaking;
the planned structural and operational changes at the plant.
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