A WA parliamentary question seeks data on the Kwinana desalination plant's monthly output since its inception and investigates instances where environmental licence conditions impacted production levels, including specific dates and the extent of production reduction.

AnsweredQoN 7907Legislative Assembly
Asked
3 May 2012
Portfolio
Water

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(1) How much desalinated water has the Kwinana Seawater Desalination Plant produced each month since it commenced operation?
(2) Has the desalination plant been closed, or the level of production reduced, due to conditions set in the environmental licence under which it operates; and
(a) if so, what were the dates; and
(b) if so, what was the effect on production of operational decisions required by the licence conditions?

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Answered
12 June 2012
Responded by
Minister for Water
Response time
40 days
(1) [see tabled paper no]
(2) Yes
(a) 12-23 April 2008, 4-19 May 2008, 25-27 June 2010
(b) The effect on production of the plant was a reduction in the plant production to 1/6 flow.
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