Tugan desalination plant, SEQ recycled water plants to be mothballed ...

5 December 2010

The troubled Tugan Desalination Plant is now a $1.2 billion white elephant, with the Bligh Government also forced to mothball hundreds of millions of dollars worth of other plants in a desperate bid to cut water bills.
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The desal plant on the Gold Coast, which has been plagued by rusting and cracking problems since it opened last year, will be shut down early next year, along with half the $380 million Bundamba treatment plant and the new $313 million plant at Gibson Island.
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See - Courier Mail - Tugan Desalination Plant to be mothballed, execs face axe in bid to cut water bills.