Public Rally This THURSDAY 4th Dec
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Why is water recycling being overlooked? The Age, 20th November 2008
John Morgan, managing director of Melbourne Water 1995-98, speaks out:
'According to Morgan the desal plant is a waste of money. He pointed out that at the sewerage treatment plant at Carrum, 70% of the purification work to bring the water up to potable standards has already been done. This alternative would cost only a fraction of water from the desal plant. If this class A water was cleaned up to potable standard and pumped into the Silvan reservoir, which distributes water to 80% of Melbourne, it would cost a fraction of the water from the desal plant'.
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Purified Recycled Water: The Smarter Water Option Ignored
Clean Ocean Foundation has stepped up the campaign on Purified Recycled Water, due to the Brumby Governments current Water Strategy ignoring the need to have the Gunnamatta outfall completely closed. With current reports also doubting if the North South pipeline is in fact viable, Melbourne needs to impliment full reuse of its existing water resources before stealing water from the Murray.
The Water Smart report obtained under FOI by Clean Ocean reveals that potable reuse of recycled water was the only strategy which would allow the complete closure of Melbournes's ocean wastewater outfalls and create approximatly 475 GL of potable water each year. Why this option has been overlooked is of great concern to all Australians.
The Facts on Purified Recycled Water compaired to Desalination are in our report in the link BELOW
> Click for Clean Ocean Purified Recycled Water Facts
>Click here for Clean Ocean Media Release on "Water Smart Report"
For a copy of "Water Smart 'Water Supply- Demand Strategy for Melbourne (Water Substitution)' April 2006" Report Please Contact Anton < HERE >
GUNNAMATTA WASTE AN 'OPTION'- The Age, 27th Aug 2008
'An ambitious plan to use Melbourne's recycled sewage to cool Gippsland power stations has been all but abandoned, meaning the billions of litres of treated effluent are now likely to flow into the Yarra River. But in a twist, both options — the subject of year-long feasibility studies — may be overlooked by the Government, with insiders confirming the current practice of pumping effluent to sea at Gunnamatta has re-emerged as an option'.
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> Download National Outfall Database - Victoria
CRESCENT HEAD OUTFALL, NSW - 7th July 2008
Research by the Clean Ocean Foundation has found strong support for a higher standard of treatment and increased water recycling at Crescent Head, NSW. The wastewater outfall is located in close proximity to the newly declared National Surfing Reserve in an area popular with fishermen, surfers and swimmers.
Download water quality report and outfall map PDF( 240 kb)
PERTH DESALINATION PLANT BREACHES ENVIRONMENTAL GUIDELINES - 18th April, 2008
'The Water Corporation has been forced to slash production at its Kwinana desalination plant after oxygen levels in Cockburn Sound fell below the minimum levels set as part of the project’s strict operating conditions'.
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ARE AUSTRALIANS SAFE AT THE BEACH? - 1st April, 2008
The Clean Ocean Foundation has released a report into the status of bacterial water quality standards for recreational waters in Australia. This document is part of the the Clean Ocean Foundation National Outfall Database initiative and is available below:
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> Click here for 1st state review document
EASTERN TREATMENT PLANT TRIAL BEGINS - 28th Feb, 2008
The Eastern Treatment Plant has begun trialling treatment methods to be used in it's upgrade that will produce Class A recycled water by 2012. "Not only will we increase the volume of recycled water than Melburnians have access to, but also we improve the ocean water quality at Gunnamatta where this treated water is currently discharged," said Victorian Water Minister Tim Holding.
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SILICONE FOULS BEACHES - The Mail, 6th Feb 2008
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'The Environment Protection Agency is investigating silicone flakes washed up at Gunnamatta Beach....'
DESALINATION ESS MUST BE CONDUCTED - Clean Ocean Media Release, 20th Dec 2007
The common misconception that the brine stream byproduct of desalination is 'just salt' has been challenged by warnings of heavy metals and industrial chemicals in the discharge. Comprehensive Environmental Effects Statements must completed before any deaslination plant can be constructed anywhere on Australia's coastline & the more environmentally friendly alternative of water recycling must first be considered.
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UTILITIES ARE WASTING OUR PRECIOUS WATER - The Age, 14th Dec 2007
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'The Melbourne Water Corporation sends almost 300 gigalitres of partially treated waste water into Bass Strait each year even though the water could be recycled for Melbourne's industry belts. Discarding this treated water is akin to sending all of Melbourne's bottles, cans, papers and cardboard to landfill instead of recycling them'.
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PULP MILL & NEW BASS STRAIT OUTFALL APPROVED BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT - 5th Oct 2007
'Concerns focus on the impact on Bass Strait of 64,000 tonnes of effluent being dumped each day. Oceanographer Stuart Godfrey and two other scientists told Dr Peacock's committee that toxic effluent would wash ashore.'
'The federal environmental guidelines allow for dioxins to be dumped at a rate of 3.4 trillionths of a gram per litre. But the mill plans to dump 73 million litres of effluent a day into Bass Strait.'
> Click here to read 'Pulp mill can pump dioxins under new guidelines' - The Age, 21st August 2007
> Click here to help with the campaign to oppose the pulp mill
OUTFALL PLANNED FOR EVAN'S HEAD, NSW - ABC, 2nd Aug 2007
'The Evans Head water committee says the decision to go ahead with plans for an ocean outfall near the northern New South Wales town's main beach is hypocrisy'.
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