August 17, 2016
Kingaroy Golf Club will be the first local sports club to benefit from recycled water produced by Kingaroy’s new waste water treatment plant.
Water Portfolio chair Cr Roz Frohloff told Wednesday’s Council meeting the golf club will be connected to the town’s new Class A recycled water supply this week.
Meanwhile, Council officers are continuing to look at the feasibility of building a new recycled water main from the waste water treatment plant to connect to tanks located at the Kingaroy Cricket Grounds.
The new main would run along part of First Avenue and cross the Kingaroy Showgrounds.
It would allow the Showgrounds and other sporting clubs that use the Bjelke-Petersen Recreation Area to use recycled water on their own playing fields, too.
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The upgrade of Murgon’s water treatment plant is progressing steadily, and commissioning of the plant’s third filter is now underway.
The filter was found to be damaged when contractors began the refurbishment project, but has now been repaired.
Cr Frohloff said if work proceeds to plan, the third filter should begin supplying Murgon’s water next week.
This would allow the plant’s other two filters to be taken offline so they can be refurbished as well, without any interruption to the town’s water supplies.
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Refurbishment of the old control building at the Gordonbrook water treatment plant will begin next week, but is likely to take awhile.
The building contains asbestos, Cr Frohloff said.
This will need to be safely removed and disposed of before any refurbishment work can be carried out.
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A new septage disposal facility has been built as part of the new Kingaroy Waste Water Treatment Plant.
The facility allows for the disposal of large volumes of septic waste to be tracked and monitored by the plant’s operators, as well as complying with all workplace health and safety requirements.
Service providers will be issued with electronic swipe cards so they can access the facility even when the plant is unattended, but will need to complete waste tracking documentation when they make a disposal.
The new facility will only accept septic tank waste.
Mixed loads containing septic and grease trap waste, or any other type of waste, will need to be disposed of elsewhere.
The new disposal facility will replace an existing Kingaroy facility that service providers currently use.
When the service becomes operational, providers will be charged a flat rate of $27.50 for every 1000 litres of septic waste they dispose of if it originates in the South Burnett, or $121 per 1000 litres if it originates outside the region.
But an annual fee of $5172 the Council used to charge contractors for the disposal of septic tank and grease trap waste has been axed.
Councillors voted to amend the 2016-17 Register Of Fees and Charges to reflect the changes.
