Dalby goes dual (purple) pipe for new subdivision ...

Another reason Dalby is fast becoming the model town for recycled water use in Australia.

Excerpt from the Chronicle:

Recycled water for Dalby subdivision

21 October 2006

By Sarah Vogler

Could Dalby be waiting in the wings to steal Toowoomba's Garden City title?

Maybe not, but Robin Hodge thinks it might come close.

And the Hallmark Property operations manager says his new development is the reason why.

The 75-lot subdivision, Trinity Green, being built in Dalby will be connected to town water, but will also have its own recycled water supply using water from Dalby's soon-to-be upgraded waste water system.

''It (the subdivision) has been constructed with an alternative water supply for gardens and for flushing toilets,'' Mr Hodge said.

The water will be available for the gardens and toilets of the subdivision by 2008.

Mr Hodge said the recycled water would be graded to a certain level for domestic use.

He said the idea for the alternative water supply came from the Dalby Town Council, which is starting work on a $10 million project to recycle water resulting from coal seam methane gas water.

''We weighed up the costs and benefits and made a very quick decision to accept.''

A decision applauded by Dalby Town Council deputy mayor Barry O'Shea.

Cr O'Shea said once the project was complete he was hoping more developers would come on-board.

He said apart from attracting more development, the extra water would also give the town more security.

''With the on-going dry conditions, there's virtually no water (left in traditional supplies).''
He said the extra strain new subdivisions would have put on the bores would have been ''virtually impossible to sustain''.

''Security (of water supply) is the real key,'' Cr O'Shea said.

See - Dalby - the model for recycled water use.