PURIFIED RECYCLED WATER READY FOR SWANBANK
Published Thursday, 23 August, 2007 at 12:30 PM
JOINT STATEMENT
Premier and Minister for Trade
The Honourable Peter Beattie
Deputy Premier, Treasurer and Minister for Infrastructure
The Honourable Anna Bligh
Water is today flowing through the Bundamba Advanced Water Treatment Plant and within days will be doing its job to help drought proof south-east Queensland, Premier Peter Beattie said today.
Mr Beattie said the project team had delivered a world-class recycled water asset in record time, and had set a new benchmark in the construction industry.
“While many said it couldn’t be done, purified recycled water will be delivered to Swanbank Power Station by the end of the month, as promised,” Mr Beattie said.
“The Advanced Water Treatment Plant is evidence of world’s best practice and I thank everybody involved for their amazing efforts in helping build this facility.
“It is a key part of our plan to accept wastewater from Goodna and Bundamba water treatment plants and convert it into purified recycled water to be transported by a 7.3 km pipeline from Bundamba to Swanbank Power Station near Ipswich.
“When this stage of the Water Grid comes on-line at the end of the month, up to 15 mega litres a day of drinking water will be freed up for South East Queenslanders, the equivalent daily supply of a community the size of Ipswich or Logan.
“It is part of our commitment to help build a water grid to ensure water supply for future generations,” he said.
Deputy Premier and Minister for Infrastructure Anna Bligh said commissioning of the micro filtration and reverse osmosis unit is taking place in a large purpose-built building about the size of a Bunnings hardware store.
“The processes of micro filtration, reverse osmosis and advanced oxidation are in the final stages of completion and technicians are finalising the state-of-the-art processes that will deliver purified recycled water to Swanbank,” Ms Bligh said.
“This phase follows recent commissioning of the raw water tank and raw water pump station at the plant - the first of three advanced water treatment plants to be constructed as part of the $2.4 billion Western Corridor Recycled Water Project.
“Consistent with the high level of treatment provided, the plant has floor-to-ceiling specialist piping equipment, chemical storage tanks, transmission and storage systems, databanks and a control room where the entire process is continuously monitored,” Ms Bligh said.
Ms Bligh said operating the plant through the commissioning phase was not only the best way to experience the new systems working but would also ensure the stringent treatment process was achieving the results expected.
“Everyone wants safe reliable water and we are pleased to be able to apply these advanced technologies to the groundbreaking Western Corridor Recycled Water Project that will serve south-east Queensland’s increasing population and subsequent demand for water,” she said.
Ms Bligh said workers right across the South East Queensland Water Grid continued to proceed with frenetic pace.
“For example the Swanbank to Bundamba pipeline is already complete, as is connection between Goodna and Bundamba.
“More than 36kms of pipe is in the ground between Caboonbah and Bundamba.
“These crews, until this week’s welcome rain delays, are laying around 1km per day and have peaked at 1.5km a day – we originally estimated 330 meters per day - so this section of pipeline is ahead of schedule.
“Construction of the other advanced water treatment plants are also occurring at pace and I remain confident that the commissioning will occur as promised.
“I congratulate all of the workers and suppliers – you are magnificent,” she said.
ENDS
Thursday, 23 August 2007
Media: 3224 4500 (Premier’s Office)
3224 4379 (Deputy Premier’s Office)
Mr Beattie said the project team had delivered a world-class recycled water asset in record time, and had set a new benchmark in the construction industry.
“While many said it couldn’t be done, purified recycled water will be delivered to Swanbank Power Station by the end of the month, as promised,” Mr Beattie said.
“The Advanced Water Treatment Plant is evidence of world’s best practice and I thank everybody involved for their amazing efforts in helping build this facility.
“It is a key part of our plan to accept wastewater from Goodna and Bundamba water treatment plants and convert it into purified recycled water to be transported by a 7.3 km pipeline from Bundamba to Swanbank Power Station near Ipswich.
“When this stage of the Water Grid comes on-line at the end of the month, up to 15 mega litres a day of drinking water will be freed up for South East Queenslanders, the equivalent daily supply of a community the size of Ipswich or Logan.
“It is part of our commitment to help build a water grid to ensure water supply for future generations,” he said.
Deputy Premier and Minister for Infrastructure Anna Bligh said commissioning of the micro filtration and reverse osmosis unit is taking place in a large purpose-built building about the size of a Bunnings hardware store.
“The processes of micro filtration, reverse osmosis and advanced oxidation are in the final stages of completion and technicians are finalising the state-of-the-art processes that will deliver purified recycled water to Swanbank,” Ms Bligh said.
“This phase follows recent commissioning of the raw water tank and raw water pump station at the plant - the first of three advanced water treatment plants to be constructed as part of the $2.4 billion Western Corridor Recycled Water Project.
“Consistent with the high level of treatment provided, the plant has floor-to-ceiling specialist piping equipment, chemical storage tanks, transmission and storage systems, databanks and a control room where the entire process is continuously monitored,” Ms Bligh said.
Ms Bligh said operating the plant through the commissioning phase was not only the best way to experience the new systems working but would also ensure the stringent treatment process was achieving the results expected.
“Everyone wants safe reliable water and we are pleased to be able to apply these advanced technologies to the groundbreaking Western Corridor Recycled Water Project that will serve south-east Queensland’s increasing population and subsequent demand for water,” she said.
Ms Bligh said workers right across the South East Queensland Water Grid continued to proceed with frenetic pace.
“For example the Swanbank to Bundamba pipeline is already complete, as is connection between Goodna and Bundamba.
“More than 36kms of pipe is in the ground between Caboonbah and Bundamba.
“These crews, until this week’s welcome rain delays, are laying around 1km per day and have peaked at 1.5km a day – we originally estimated 330 meters per day - so this section of pipeline is ahead of schedule.
“Construction of the other advanced water treatment plants are also occurring at pace and I remain confident that the commissioning will occur as promised.
“I congratulate all of the workers and suppliers – you are magnificent,” she said.
ENDS
Thursday, 23 August 2007
Media: 3224 4500 (Premier’s Office)
3224 4379 (Deputy Premier’s Office)