Brisbane beefs up desal contingency plans ...
Excerpt from the Sunday Mail:
Mobile desalination to be on river barges
6 January 2008
The Queensland government will put mobile desalination plants on the Brisbane River to ensure water supplies if the record drought continues.
Acting Premier Paul Lucas said two mobile desalination plants were planned on barges on the Brisbane River at a cost of $550 million.
Preliminary works would cost an additional $125 million and included site selection, surveying, water modelling, environmental studies and geotechnical works.
The contingency moves, which would be assessed and approved at the end of the wet season in March or April, could pump an extra 144 megalitres of water a day into the region by the end of next year, even if the worst drought on record worsened.
"That's enough extra water for more than a million people a day,'' Mr Lucas said.
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See - Brisbane beefs up with mobile desal plants.
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 6:53 AM
3 Comments:
On the Gold Coast, the Hinze Dam was at 99 per cent of capacity last night and with the run-off still coming it was expected to be overflowing by this morning.
11:58 PM, January 06, 2008
This fool of a Deputy Premier only high lights the "little" this State Government knows.
They have failed to deliver on infrastructure and they are coming up with hair brain schemes when the weather looks like filling the dams.
Brisbane should make it clear that too do not want recycled sewage water into the Wivenhoe Dam because they do not want to be the test case for the world.
Paul Lucas states that sewage water into drinking supplies is used all over the world and it's not. Lies dam lies and that's all you will get from this government and the QWC.
6:01 AM, January 07, 2008
Excerpt from Sydney Morning Herald:
Transfield, Worley seal water deal
9 January 2008
Transfield Services Ltd and Worley Parsons will jointly develop a $125 million water project in southeast Queensland.
The two companies have been chosen by the Queensland government to work on two mobile Brisbane River desalination facilities in order to address water supply problems, Acting Premier Paul Lucas said.
Mr Lucas said preliminary works including site selection, surveying, water modelling and environmental studies would begin shortly.
"By starting work straight away, up to an extra 144 megalitres a day in contingency supplies can be added to the region by the end of next year, which will ensure water security even if the worst drought on record worsens," he said.
"That's enough extra water for more than a million people a day."
Mr Lucas noted that these potential contingency measures are a safeguard to ensure SEQ will have enough water after the devastating drought in 2006/07, which was the worst year in more than a century of records for rainfall.
Mr Lucas said Transfield and Worley Parsons, the preferred providers for portable Brisbane River desalination facilities, would now begin studies and preliminary work worth $25 million to ensure their proposal could be activated if needed.
The cost of the temporary plants if they proceed is around $550 million and they would be ready in late 2009, he said.
4:47 PM, January 09, 2008
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