APA Group has announced a further expansion of the Victorian – New South Wales interconnect following the extension to its gas transportation agreement with Lumo Energy. The new arrangement with Lumo Energy is for a term of five and a half years, providing a revised suite of services from Victoria through to Sydney using APA’s Victorian Transmission System and Moomba [...]
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SA Water has celebrated World Toilet Day with the release of a fun and educational interactive app entitled, ‘Let the Poo Thru’. SA Water Chief Executive John Ringham says the free app is part of SA Water’s broader wastewater campaign which aims to educate the community in helping to protect the state’s wastewater network. “This interactive game has been designed [...]
Despite new Australian Bureau of Statistics data showing that fewer Australian households are saving water outdoors, Lower Hunter residents in NSW have been found to use 3,000 litres less per person than they did in 2010. According to the ABS, only 54% of Australian households took steps to save water in the garden in the last 12 months, compared with [...]
The annual Victorian Energy and Water Ombudsman report has been released, highlighting a number of issues that most concern energy and water customers in the state. Foremost, Victorian energy and water customers were increasingly worried about billing and affordability issues. The 2013 Annual Report from the Energy and Water Ombudsman (Victoria) (EWOV) reveals 2012-13 as another year of substantial growth [...]
The Special Access Undertaking (SAU), a document that will decide the way the National Broadband Network is regulated for the next three decades, is a step closer to being finalised. NBN Co has told the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) that it will accept all the variations to the Special Access Undertaking (SAU) that have been proposed by the [...]
International GIS day was celebrated on Wednesday the 20th of November this year with various geographic information system related events held. The largest Australian event was held in the Brisbane CBD and was organised by Brisbane-based company GIS People. The event featured interactive maps, various innovative gadgets and talks from GIS experts about the uses and benefits of GIS. GIS [...]
WA Water Minister Terry Redman has launched a new water saving campaign on television, radio and in print encouraging West Australian’s to be much more accountable for their water use in the context of a drying climate. Fresh Water Thinking is a new approach from the Water Corporation to remind the community how precious the city’s water supplies are and the [...]
The Energy Networks Association (ENA) has elected Paul Adams, the Managing Director of Jemena Limited, as new Chairman. The ENA is the industry voice for the electricity transmission and distribution and gas distribution networks in Australia. Mr Adams, who previously served as the ENA’s Deputy Chairman, was appointed Chairman following the association’s AGM on 14 November 2013. “ENA members are [...]
A pilot program investigating ways to accelerate the rollout of the National Broadband Network is set to begin in early 2014. NBN Co has issued expressions of interest to internet service providers to participate in the pilot, which will roll out fibre-to-the-building in up to ten large office complexes and apartment blocks across the country, comprising up to 1000 individual [...]
Melbourne Water intends to begin works in early 2014 to upgrade Greenvale Reservoir’s embankment. Bill Welsford, Senior Project Manager, said the upgrade was necessary to ensure Melbourne Water continued to provide a secure water supply to the north-western and western suburbs of Melbourne. “Regular assessments of Greenvale Reservoir have identified an opportunity to upgrade the embankment and the dam’s security, [...]
WA Water Corporation is reminding its customers living in or near bushland not to assume they will have a water supply if they choose to stay and defend their homes during a bushfire. Bushfire season in the southwest corner of Western Australia starts in November and continues through to April. Water Corporation Perth Regional Manager Steve Dorricott said it was [...]
Unitywater has won the Queensland Risk Management Excellence Award for its program to minimise wet weather sewage overflows. The Queensland Risk Management Excellence Award was presented to Unitywater at the LGAQ Conference in Cairns on Tuesday 22 October, to recognise the program’s innovation in risk reduction. Unitywater began its comprehensive Sewage Overflow Abatement Program (SOAP) in late 2011, with a [...]
Residential and business premises in a number of areas across areas in Victoria and Western Australia have been connected to the National Broadband Network. In Victoria, regional communities around Shepparton and Benalla can now switch on to the network. NBN Co’s fixed-wireless network is now available to more than 2,350 families and businesses in the following communities: Broken Creek Goomalibee [...]
The Rural City of Murray Bridge, SA is currently seeking offers from suitably qualified contractors for the early contractor involvement for pump stations, mechanical, electrical and controls. Submissions close: 3:00 PM Adelaide time, 10 December 2013 Additional information and application details can be found on the tender webpage.
Seqwater has launched a new weir safety campaign warning the community about the dangers of swimming in weirs and fast flowing water. The weir safety campaign, with the new slogan ‘Don’t get sucked in’, urges the public, especially young people, to be aware of the potentially fatal consequences of swimming in weirs and flooded waterways. The campaign is an important [...]
The City of Greater Geraldton (WA) invites tenders from suitably qualified contractors to undertake the installation of a permanent sewerage connection for the ablutions located at the north-end of the Geraldton Foreshore. Applications close: Monday the 25th of November, 2013. For more information or to apply please see the tender webpage.
Albury City Council in NSW is currently seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified contractors for the structural relining of existing sewer mains. The work includes: a) Pipe Bursting: Supply of all materials, pipe bursting, debeading of inserted pipe, and replacement of junctions, renewal of property branches, property boundary traps (all to ACC Standards Drawing No. STD-S-21) for the specified [...]
Orange City Council are inviting suitably experienced companies with adequate capability and capacity that seek to be pre-selected to tender for the Construction of the Suma Park Dam Upgrade Works. Upgrade works include but are not limited to: - Main Dam raising of existing concrete arch - Auxillary spillway construction - Outlet works upgrade - Access roads and associated works [...]
Dubbo City Council in WA is currently seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified contractors for electricity and telecommunication infrastructure work on a 33 lot residential subdivision. Applications close: Tuesday the 26th of November, 2013. For more information or to apply please see the tender webpage.
The Water Service Association of Australia (WSAA) has appointed ACTEW Water Managing Director Mark Sullivan as its new Chair. WSAA is the peak body that brings together and supports water and sewerage organisations across the Australian urban water industry who ultimately provide a service to over 16 million Australians. ACTEW hopes the appointment will give the ACT a valuable opportunity [...]
Victorian Minister for Water Peter Walsh and Member for Carrum MP Donna Bauer have today announced the completion of a project to reduce odour and noise at a sewage pump station in Bonbeach. Mr Walsh said Melbourne Water’s Bondi Road sewerage pumping station upgrade includes a new air treatment facility and state of the art mechanical and electrical equipment. “The [...]
Queensland Urban Utilities has purchased a depot at Gatton to service the Lockyer Valley region. Since Queensland Urban Utilities was formed in 2010, service teams and equipment have been located at local council offices and depots in the region while possible sites for a dedicated depot were investigated. The company spokesperson says that the 9,000 square metre depot at 10 [...]
Victorian water and sewerage retailer South East Water has appointed two design and construction consortiums to undertake approximately $400 million of water and sewerage works in Melbourne’s South East, as part of its five year capital works program. Contracts were signed this month by two joint ventures: Fulton Hogan, Delplant and Beca, and Comdain Infrastructure, Downer EDI and MWH. The [...]
Water Corporation CEO Sue Murphy has been chosen as Australia’s top civil engineer in 2013. The announcement of Mrs Murphy as the Sir John Holland Civil Engineer of the Year was made by Engineers Australia at a function held in Melbourne. Chairman Eva Skira said Mrs Murphy thoroughly deserved the honour and was among a cohort of high calibre Water [...]
Construction has begun on a new reticulated sewerage system on the Southern Peninsula of Victoria. The project will connect one of the last major unsewered areas in Melbourne’s south east to a reticulated system. Doors will also open at the new Peninsula ECO sewerage connection shop on Point Nepean Road in Rye where residents across the southern peninsula can drop [...]
BG Group has completed transactions with China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) for the sale of additional interests in the Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) project. The deal went through for approximately $1.93 billion USD. Under a separate agreement, BG Group will also supply CNOOC with an additional 5 million tonnes per annum of liquefied natural gas (LNG). CNOOC has also [...]
Qld Natural Resources and Mines Minister Andrew Cripps has announced that a new Townsville Minerals Assessment Hub will process all mineral exploration permits for Queensland and manage all mineral development applications across the state. “This is a significant milestone in reforming the way the Department of Natural Resources and Mines (DNRM) issues tenures to our mining company clients,” Mr Cripps [...]
The District Council of Mount Barker, SA is seeking offers from suitably qualified contractors for restoration works on the regions wastewater treatment lagoons. Submissions close: 5:00 pm Adelaide time, Wednesday the 4th of December. Additional information and application details can be found on the tender webpage.
As part of the Federal Government’s continuing National Broadband Network reforms, three new directors have been appointed to the NBN Co Board. The three new non-executive directors are Mr. Patrick Flannigan, Mr. Simon Hackett, and Mr. Justin Milne. They further enhance the Board’s capabilities and expertise to provide appropriate oversight and guidance to this vitally important national project. NBN Co [...]
The NSW Government has called for a hold on exploration and extraction of natural gas from coal seams within Sydney’s drinking water catchment zone effective immediately pending greater investigation on its possible impact on water supplies. Resources Minister Chris Hartcher said the NSW Government supports the principle of restricting activities in the Special Areas until there is greater understanding of [...]
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