Rosehill Recycled Water Scheme - The Overview

Introduction

The Rosehill Recycled Water Scheme will reduce the demand on Sydney’s drinking water supply by providing high volume water users in Rosehill and Smithfield with more than seven billion litres of recycled water a year. The Rosehill Recycled Water Scheme will only provide recycled water to industrial users and irrigators, not for individual households.

Recycled water is water that has been used, collected, treated and purified. It is an important part of sustainable water management and the NSW Government is committed to increasing the use of recycled water from 22 billion litres a year to 70 billion litres a year by 2015.

The Proposal

The proposed scheme includes:

• Construction of a new advanced technology water recycling plant on the corner of North Street and East Parade in Fairfield
• Construction of a new 20 kilometre recycled water distribution system to service high volume water users in the Rosehill and Smithfield area
• Construction of two recycled water storage facilities at Woodville Golf Course, off Barbers Road in South Granville and off Durham Street in Rosehill.

Delivering the solution

AquaNet Sydney is part of the Jemena group. Jemena is the new brand name for the Alinta assets and businesses acquired by Singapore Power International last year.

Jemena is one of Australia’s leading utility infrastructure companies and will deliver the distribution system on behalf of AquaNet Sydney. Jemena will construct and operate the recycled water distribution system. Veolia Water is the world leader in water services and will construct and operate the water recycling plant.  The scheme will be delivered on behalf of AquaNet Sydney.

Next steps

Jemena is researching the potential environmental and social impacts of the scheme. The community and other important stakeholders will be consulted as part of the environmental assessment process. 

An environmental assessment report will be submitted to the NSW Department of Planning in mid 2008 for evaluation under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.  If the scheme is approved by the NSW Minister for Planning, it is likely that construction will begin by early 2009. The scheme will take around two years to complete. It is anticipated that recycled water will be available for use in 2011.

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