Recycled water for industry update ...
Some good news for a change:
Excerpt from Qld Business Review
Access to recycled water expands for business and industry
10 January 2007
Brisbane businesses can now access recycled water from two wastewater treatment plants and an aquifer, with a third to come online in early 2007.
Following the availability of recycled water from Luggage Point and the Darra Aquifer in November and the Oxley Creek recycled water filling station in December, the Sandgate Wastewater Treatment Plant's filling station is now supplying recycled water.
Recycled water from the remaining two wastewater treatment plants, Gibson Island and Wacol, is expected to be available by February 2007.
Once all five are online to supply recycled water, they will provide more than two million litres of Class A recycled water each day to Brisbane business and industry.
Electronic smart cards now allow approved commercial tanker drivers 24-hour access to these facilities.
Under the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) guidelines, Class A recycled water is recommended to irrigate public open spaces, golf courses, for dust suppression, and some industrial processes.
See - QBR - Recycled water for industry expands.
Let's hope they use it ...
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 12:40 PM
2 Comments:
This would certainly free up a lot of water for Mr and Mrs Joe Average ratepayer.
This is exactly what people in Toowoomba wanted and they would not allow the likes of Clive Berhoffer to wet down the roads with this type of water.
We need to know why our Council is dragging it's feet on this sort of initiative.
Also we no longer see the daily consumption of this city. It should be less now that we are on level 5 restrictions, one would think?
4:17 PM, January 10, 2007
It is time the Brisbane City Council stopped allowing potable water to be used for dust suppression.
Toowoomba City Council should also be persuaded that it should require the use of recycled water for dust supression.
7:24 PM, January 10, 2007
Post a Comment
<< Home