Western Corridor Recycled Water Project
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The Western Corridor Recycled Water Project is a large reclaimed water project for South East Queensland. The Queensland Government, responding to severe drought, has built this water infrastructure project. Together with the construction of new weirs, dams and desalination plants this project is part of the South East Queensland Water Grid to supplement dwindling reservoir supplies in the Brisbane area.
The project collects and distributes recycled water from water treatment plants at Bundamba, Luggage Point and other sites to supplement reservoirs sufferings from low inflows and for other industrial uses such as cooling at power stations.
The Western Corridor Recycled Water Project will supply reclaimed water to Wivenhoe Dam, Swanbank Power Station and both Tarong Power Station and Tarong North Power Station. Supplies to Swanbank started in 2007. The pipeline has aided existing irrigation supplies in the Lockyer Valley.[citation needed]
The total cost for the Australia's largest ever recycled water project is $2.4 billion. [1] The total length of the pipeline is 104 km. Maximum capacity is expected to be 232 megalitres a day.
The Western Corridor is the area from Brisbane's south west suburbs towards the city of Ipswich. For many years the area has experienced significant growth with the development of Springfield, extension of the Centenary Highway and upgrade to the Ipswich Motorway necessary.
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- ^ Project update: March 2008. Retrieved on 2008-05-13.
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