❓ Question regarding the capacity and licensing of the Bridgetown Regional Water Supply Scheme bore, specifically questioning the discrepancy between installed capacity and licensed extraction limits. The answer clarifies the staged approach to meet future demand.
AnsweredQoN 2873Legislative Council
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I refer to the Bridgetown Regional Water Supply Scheme and ask, according to media by consultants to Water Corporation, Lowe Churchill and Associates, they have created a nine megalitre a day bore and pipeline and pump station project. In communication with constituents in the south-west, the Water Corporation have stated they have installed five megalitre day bore pipeline and pump station project, -
(1) What is the volumetric capacity of the bore installed at Thomas Road Nannup, and what is the licensed extraction limit for this bore?
(2) Why was Water Corporation permitted to construct a bore scheme far in excess of licensed requirements, and risk stranded assets into the future?
(1) What is the volumetric capacity of the bore installed at Thomas Road Nannup, and what is the licensed extraction limit for this bore?
(2) Why was Water Corporation permitted to construct a bore scheme far in excess of licensed requirements, and risk stranded assets into the future?
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Answered
17 November 2010
Responded by
Parliamentary Secretary representing the Minister for Water
Response time
36 days
(1) The bore is capable of producing up to ten megalitres a day. The current pump sets only have a capacity to transfer five megalitres a day which is sufficient to meet medium term requirements. The Water Corporation is currently licensed to abstract 0.6 gigalitres (600 megalitres) per annum from the bore, which is sufficient to meet immediate requirements.
(2) The Water Corporation has installed bore infrastructure capable of being upgraded to meet the projected needs of the seven communities comprising the future Bridgetown Regional Water Supply Scheme until approximately 2050. This investment is the most efficient way to deliver the long-term water supply needs of the community.
Future licence arrangements will be determined by the Department of Water and will be applied for in line with growth in demand for the Bridgetown Regional Water Supply Scheme.
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(2) The Water Corporation has installed bore infrastructure capable of being upgraded to meet the projected needs of the seven communities comprising the future Bridgetown Regional Water Supply Scheme until approximately 2050. This investment is the most efficient way to deliver the long-term water supply needs of the community.
Future licence arrangements will be determined by the Department of Water and will be applied for in line with growth in demand for the Bridgetown Regional Water Supply Scheme.
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