Using recycled water on sporting fields - what's impossible in Toowoomba becomes reality in Melbourne ...
Amazing!
Excerpt from ABC News:
Melb councils use recycled water for sports ovals
15 January 2008
Councils in Melbourne's eastern suburbs are using recycled water to keep public sporting grounds open.
The water is being processed at the Brushy Creek Sewage Treatment plant, at Chirnside Park, east of Melbourne, after a $2.5-million dollar upgrade.
The plant can recycle over 2-million litres of water per day, which is available for use on sporting fields and parks and gardens.
The Victorian Minister for Water, Tim Holding says the recycled water should help councils struggling with current 3-A restrictions.
"This (recycled water) can water something like 112 sport fields across the metropolitan area. This will be a great bonanza for municipalities," he said.
Councils are only allowed to water one in four sporting ovals with drinking water.
Councils have been able to get recycled water from the Werribee Treatment plant but transport costs made it too expensive.
"It means more community organisations will have access to recycled water. More community infrastructure will be kept alive, to be used safely by a whole range of sporting organisations," the Minister said.
See - Recycled water for sports fields.
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 12:12 PM
2 Comments:
The council could never get it into their heads that using recycled water on the city's parks ands gardens might be a better idea than forcing prople to drink it when 62% said no. So places like Melbourne and Dalby move ahead with their plans for recycled water projects and Toowoomba goes nowhere. These places show how it is done.
6:10 PM, January 15, 2008
The council could never get it into their heads that using recycled water on the city's parks and gardens might be a better idea than forcing prople to drink it when 62% said no. So places like Melbourne and Dalby move ahead with their plans for recycled water projects and Toowoomba goes nowhere. These places show how it is done.
6:11 PM, January 15, 2008
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