About this project
We have 247 water reservoirs across Sydney, the Illawarra and the Blue Mountains. They help us to supply about 1.5 billion litres of drinking water to over 5.3 million people in their homes and businesses every day.
Our existing reservoir at Marsfield cannot service the expected growth in Prospect North and Ryde. The new Marsfield Reservoir is one of several projects that will help service growth in the Prospect North and Ryde drinking water catchments. These drinking water catchments currently service a population of 1.56 million people, which is expected to increase to 2.04 million people by 2031 and 2.26 million people by 2046.
Our work will be done in 3 stages. The main construction work will take about 20 months to finish, but some work is required before and after we build the reservoir tank.
Benefits
The new reservoir will help service the growing community. Our work will ensure we continue to provide clean and reliable water every day.
Impacts
Noise
Our work will be noisy at times, but we are working to reduce impacts. You may hear noise from our machinery and vehicles on-site. We'll keep noise to a minimum, avoid unnecessary loud noises and follow all mitigation measures in the construction environmental management plan.
Dust
Some of our work activities will create dust. We'll manage dust by wetting down our work area, the access driveway and stockpiled material. We'll cover stockpiles when not in use and inspect our work areas often to make sure they're tidy.
If required, we will also organise a street sweeper to make sure mud isn't tracked off our site onto Abuklea Road.
Visual impacts during construction
Properties around our site will notice a change in visual amenity during our work. Some of our equipment and machinery will extend above the fence line, so you'll be able to see things like elevated work platforms and cranes while we do our work.
Shade cloth will help provide some privacy for our closest neighbours.
Truck movements
There will be frequent vehicle movements in and out of the site from Abuklea Road during our standard working hours. Truck movements will vary each day. When needed, our traffic controllers will help keep traffic flowing safely and minimise disruption to local traffic.
Traffic and parking
We will aim to minimise our impact on local streets around the site, but you will notice an increase in work vehicles in the area.
Working hours
Our standard work hours are Monday to Friday from 7am to 6pm and on Saturdays from 8am to 1pm if needed. We'll let you know if we need to work outside these hours.