Media Release

21 Feb 2008

Recycled water pipeline completed ahead of schedule

A 24-kilometre, $130 million pipeline between Liverpool and Ashfield for recycled water has been completed three months ahead of schedule and on budget.

The pipeline is a major link in Sydney’s recycled water network and will provide recycled water to homes and industries along its route, saving precious drinking water.

From 2010, the pipeline will initially transport 6.8 billion litres of recycled water a year to industries in the Camellia and Smithfield areas and homes in the Sydney Olympic Park Authority area.

It will play an important role in increasing greater Sydney’s recycled water figure to 70 billion litres a year by 2015. This represents 11 per cent of our total water needs.

The Liverpool to Ashfield pipeline is part of a larger scheme consisting of:

• Construction of a 24-kilometre pipeline to transfer treated wastewater from Liverpool Sewage Treatment Plant at Warwick Farm to an existing sewer main at Ashfield;
  
  
• Construction of two new pumping stations and other infrastructure at Liverpool and Fairfield Sewage Treatment Plants for the transfer of wastewater to Ashfield;
  
  
• Improvement works at Liverpool Sewage Treatment Plant for increased wastewater flows resulting from urban growth.

The pipeline will initially be used as a sewer so that essential maintenance work can be carried out on the North Georges River Submain.

After the maintenance work is completed, the pipeline will become a central part of a recycled water network for Sydney.

Leighton Contractors constructed the pipeline. The project has been completed three months ahead of schedule and has achieved over 850,000 working hours with no work time lost to injury. Full commissioning will be completed by May.

Visit the website, for more information on the project.

 

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