Cr Roz Frohloff
July 21, 2016
Kingaroy’s sports clubs are just a few months away from being able to use recycled water to keep their fields lush and green year-round, regardless of whether the region is in drought or not.
Water Portfolio chair Cr Roz Frohloff told Wednesday’s Council meeting that Recycled Water Use Agreements are currently being negotiated with the Kingaroy Golf Club, the South Burnett Show Society and sports clubs that use Lyle Vidler Oval, T.J. O’Neill Oval and the Bjelke-Petersen Recreation Area.
The design of a new pipeline to carry recycled water from Kingaroy’s new waste water treatment plant in Hodges Road to the golf club, showgrounds and sports fields is being finalised, Cr Frohloff said.
The plant is expected to begin producing Class A recycled water within the next few months.
Cr Frohloff said right now the plant’s bioreactors were coming on stream, operators were being trained in the new processes, and the plant was achieving its licence limits without any need to add extra chemicals.
Construction of a new trunk sewer main into the plant is expected to start in August, and demolition of the old waste water treatment plant was expected to be completed within the next few months.
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The new water treatment plant at Gordonbrook is supplying such good quality water to Kingaroy that chlorine dosage rates have dropped by 50 per cent, Cr Frohloff said.
The halving of chlorine use will generate significant long-term savings for the Council.
Cr Frohloff said an official opening for the water treatment plant was being planned for August.
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Repair issues on Murgon’s water treatment plant look like being solved without any disruption to the town’s water supply.
Cr Frohloff said contractors M2O have come up with a cost-effective solution for solving some repair issues that were recently discovered when they were refurbishing the plant’s third filter train.
Once the repairs were made, the train could be brought back online and attention could turn to the remaining two trains without any need to shut down the town’s water supply.
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The problem of gas building up to dangerous – and possibly explosive – levels in landfills appears to be a non-issue in the South Burnett.
Cr Frohloff said Council officers had recently monitored gas levels at a number of the region’s active and legacy landfills after the Department Of Environment and Heritage directed them to do so.
No fugitive gas emissions were detected at any of the sites, Cr Frohloff said.
The gas monitoring data was submitted to DEHS for approval before June 30, as directed.
