Creating a Recycled Water Network in Camellia/Rosehill

AquaNet Sydney Pty Limited, part of the Jemena group, and Veolia Water Australia have signed a contract with Sydney Water to build a $100 million plant and pipeline scheme that will provide major industrial customers in western Sydney with recycled water. Jemena is the new brand name for the Alinta assets and businesses acquired by Singapore Power International last year.

This investment forms part of the NSW Government target of 70 billion litres of recycled water a year by 2015 aimed at securing future water supplies in a city faced with the challenges of a growing population, climate change and increasingly variable rainfall.
AquaNet Sydney has created an innovative and environmentally sensitive infrastructure solution to meet Sydney’s growing need for a cost-effective, reliable and quality water supply.

The AquaNet scheme will initially provide 4.3 billion litres per year of safe, high quality recycled water to Sydney Water to supply industrial and commercial customers in Rosehill and Smithfield by early 2011.

The design also provides for the future expansion of an additional three billion litres per year to customers in Westmead, Parramatta, Wetherill Park, Fairfield and Liverpool.

Under the AquaNet water recycling scheme, Veolia Water will construct the water recycling plant and Jemena will renew parts of its isolated gas main network for incorporation into a new 20 kilometre recycled water transportation system.

AquaNet Sydney and Veolia Water Australia were licenced under the Water Industry Competition Act (WICA) to build, own and operate recycled water infrastructure in April 2009, they are the first two licences granted to private enterprise in New South Wales under WICA.

Construction of what will be Australia’s first privately owned recycled water system will begin by early 2009.