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Our West Camden Water Recycling Plant is operating at full capacity and needs an upgrade to support growth in the catchment and maintain environmental protection standards.
We're planning for Sydney's future by providing wastewater services that support city growth while protecting public health and the environment.
Our West Camden Water Recycling Plant is operating at full capacity and needs an upgrade to support growth in the catchment and maintain environmental protection standards.
The upgrade will double the plant's treatment capacity to serve 176,000 people and accommodate future growth in the catchment until 2046. In the short term, the plant will handle temporary flows from the South West Growth Area until the Upper South Creek Advanced Water Recycling Centre is in operation in 2026.
The upgrade involves:
The West Camden Water Recycling Plant upgrade supports growth, housing and the environment, helping us achieve our vision of providing world-class water services for a better life.
We're introducing new technology to treat wastewater to a high standard. This means that treatment discharges into waterways will have a very high quality, which will improve waterway health.
This new technology takes up less space, allowing us to increase our emergency storage capacity. This will help reduce the risk of overflows and improve environmental outcomes during wet weather.
Most of the construction is within our existing site to minimise impact to the community. The plant will remain fully operational during the upgrade.
Our delivery partner Downer I BMD will be completing painting work on the Influent Balance Tanks on Sunday 1 June 2025.
Our delivery partner Downer I BMD will be investigating and disassembling the Chlorine Contact Tank.
Our delivery partner Downer BMD has finished decommissioning the old MLE tank. This tank will now be repurposed into a balance tank, requiring fitout, testing and commissioning.
Our delivery partner Downer BMD will continue working extended hours to carry out supervision of the newly connected equipment.
Our delivery partner Downer BMD will be working extended work hours to finish work on the new inlet.
Our delivery partner Downer BMD has started commissioning the new facilities. This involves inspecting and testing. Over the coming months, we will be taking the old process units offline for cleaning to finalise this process.
Our delivery partner Downer BMD will be working extended work hours to carry out supervision of the newly connected inlet works to the MBR.
While most of our construction team will be taking a well-earned break over the Christmas and New Year period, we will be required to maintain commissioning supervision during this time.
Our delivery partner Downer BMD will be working extended work hours with early starts during the hotter months to maintain the work program.
Our delivery partner Downer BMD will be working extended work hours to carry out testing of new lighting.
Our delivery partner Downer BMD will be working extended work hours to carry out testing of the switchroom.
Our delivery partner Downer BMD will be continue working extended work hours to carry out commissioning and testing inspections of the new plant.
Our delivery partner Downer BMD will be working extended work hours to carry out inspections of the Chlorine Contact Tank.
Our delivery partner Downer BMD will be working extended work hours to deliver critical concrete pours.
Our delivery partner Downer BMD will be working extended work hours to carry out electrical cable pulling, terminations and testing of the new plant.
Our delivery partner Downer BMD will be working extended work hours.
Our delivery partner Downer BMD will be working extended work hours to carry out commissioning and testing inspections of the new plant.
It's been 9 months since the West Camden Water Recycling Plant Upgrade project team and the local community planted over 3,000 native trees at Elizabeth Macarthur Reserve as part of our biodiversity offset.
Our delivery partner Downer BMD will be working extended work hours to deliver critical concrete pours.
Our delivery partner Downer BMD will be working overnight to demobilise the 100 tonne crane from site. We are required to transport oversize and overmass vehicle at night to comply with TfNSW regulations.
Our construction team will be taking a well earned break over the Christmas and New Year period with no works being carried out from Friday 22 December 2023 until Tuesday 2 January 2024.
Downer BMD will be working extended hours until April 2024.
On Wednesday 23 August things were flying high at the West Camden Water Recycling Plant, namely the fixed lid that sits atop the plant's newest digester.
Established in 1996, National Tree Day has grown into Australia's largest community tree-planting and nature care event. The program is a call to action for all Australians to get their hands dirty and give back to their community.
We will be working overnight to allow our delivery partner Downer BMD to start building the Blower Switch Room at the WRP.
This week we celebrated Harmony Day at West Camden WRP with our team from Downer|BMD. Harmony Day is a time for everyone to celebrate the enormous benefits of multiculturalism.
The 'loss of hollow-bearing trees' is a key threat listed under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016, with approximately 20% of native fauna species relying on tree hollows for roosting, nesting and breeding.
Our construction team will be taking a well earned break over the Christmas and New Year period, with no works being carried out from Friday 23 December 2022 until Tuesday 3 January 2023.
We're upgrading the West Camden Water Recycling Plant (WRP) to increase its treatment capacity.
Together with our contractor Downer BMD, Sydney Water provided a tour of the West Camden Water Recycling Plant (WRP) to the Engineering undergraduate students from Western Sydney University.
Due to the heavy rain, we could not divert the pipes last week.
We will temporarily extend our work hours to allow our delivery partner Downer BMD to complete these concrete works for membrane bioreactors (MBR).
Our delivery partner Downer BMD will be starting the task of concreting the membrane bioreactors (MBR). This will occur between 29 July and 31 October.
We will temporarily extend our work hours to allow our delivery partner Downer BMD to import required material during low traffic movement periods.
To commemorate Environment Week at Sydney Water, the West Camden WRP team joined forces with our project delivery partner Downer BMD to establish an area of Cumberland Plain Woodland (CPW) to supplement the surrounding communities.
With the recent rain events, our delivery partner Downer BMD will continue to work extended Saturday hours to meet critical milestones.
Sydney Water and our project delivery partner Downer BMD came together this week to participate in a traditional smoking ceremony to help mark the start of construction for the West Camden Water Recycling Plant (WRP) Upgrade works.
Our delivery partner Downer BMD has started work to install new underground electrical cables for the provision of alternative power supply to the WRP from the electrical substation south of Burragorang Road.
We have made some good progress lately on upgrades to the WRP site with the plant being in full operation!
Due to the recent COVID 19 restrictions and rain events, we need to extend our Saturday working hours to meet critical project milestones and ensure the plant will meet its increasing load.
As part of the decommissioning of the sludge lagoon, our contractor Downer/BMD will need to work on the weekend of 12 and 13 February 2022. The work will be done between 7am and 5pm.
During the upgrade of the West Camden Water Recycling Plant there will be a few disruptions. We will try to keep these to a minimum. However, some are unavoidable.
We are now upgrading the West Camden Water Recycling Plant to accommodate the additional wastewater for our growing community. Our partner Downer BMD has started decommissioning the sludge lagoon in late November.
We are all set to get started with the upgrade works of the West Camden WRP!
We are excited to announce that we have partnered with Downer and BMD Group to deliver the West Camden Water Recycling Plant (WRP) Amplification project.
Currently the West Camden Recycling Plant wastewater treatment capacity is 16 ML/d. That's the equivalent of 88,000 people.
Once upgraded, the plant's capacity will double to 32 ML/d capacity to serve 176,000 people to service forecast growth in the West Camden catchment to 2046.
Construction will begin in October 2021 and will be completed by early 2025.
The upgrade involves:
The new technology is smaller, so requires less space on the site and also has a smaller carbon construction footprint. This provides us with more space which we can use for emergency storage on-site. Emergency storage is particularly important during wet weather events to prevent any overflows.
One of the new assets we will be constructing on the site as part of the plant upgrade is a membrane bioreactor, or MBR.
The advanced advantage is that it's not just providing the biological treatment, which is the conventional approach, but it's also providing a very high level of filtration to remove practically all of the contaminants from the wastewater.
The result is a better quality of recycled water and the water we discharge in our waterways.
We will be implementing new technology, which will allow us to treat the wastewater to a very high standard. This means that any treatment discharges to the waterways will have a very high quality and will improve waterway health.
The new technology will also require less space on site. We will use this space to increase our emergency storage capacity, which will improve environmental outcomes during wet weather events as it reduces the risk of overflows.
No. The plant will be in full operation while we are working on the upgrade.
