Recycling water for industry - pipeline out to tender ...

From Qld Business Review:

After continuing controversy, the recycled water pipeline from Brisbane west is moving into tender stage.

The Queensland government's SEQ Water has advertised for consultants to start planning construction of the project.

The Western Corridor Recycling Water Scheme (WCRWS) has the potential to provide up to 250 million litres of recycled water each day when both stages are complete.

While the original concept was to treat Brisbane's waste water and pipe it to the Lockyer Valley and Darling Downs for agricultural purposes, WCRWS aims to take waste water from water treatment plants in western Brisbane and Ipswich to power stations at Swanbank and possibly Tarong in the Brisbane valley.

The first stage would save 110 million litres a day from Wivenhoe Dam - about 15 percent of south east Queensland's current water usage.

Stage 2 would take recycled water from the Luggage Point and Gibson island treatment plants in the east of Brisbane.

The Queensaland government last October committed $20 million to the design and inital works of the scheme.

See - Recycled water pipeline for agriculture.