Brisbane unveils multi-million dollar waste water plant upgrade ...

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Brisbane unveils multi-million dollar waste water plant upgrade

17 February 2007

Brisbane's Lord Mayor Campbell Newman has launched a $116 million upgrade of the city's Oxley waste water treatment plant, to provide recycled water to local industry.

The treatment plant will also be the first in Queensland to process biosolids and convert them into high-quality fertiliser.

Councillor Newman says the recycled water will be used by Tarong and Swanbank power stations, which will take significant pressure off drinking water supplies.

"It will remove significant quantities of nutrients from going into Oxley Creek and the Brisbane River and Moreton Bay," he said.

"It will also provide 65 million litres a day of recycled waste water so that will take the pressure ultimately off our drinking water supplies."

He say the upgrade will reduce the amount of landfill and generate water for the western corridor recycling scheme.

See - ABC News- Newman needs to get update from Beattie.

Someone should tell Brisbane's Mayor that Premier Beattie plans to use this recycled water for drinking ...