The SEQ Water Grid’s leading-edge Luggage Point Advanced Water Treatment Plant has won the 2011 International WateReuse Project of the Year award – the highest accolade in water recycling innovation.

EQ Water Grid spokesperson, Barry Dennien, said the SEQ Water Grid’s Luggage Point Advanced Water Treatment Plant was awarded the 2011 International WateReuse Project of the Year award, due to its innovative technology and processes.

“The Luggage Point Advance Water Treatment Plant received this accolade over 47 other nominations from around the world,” he said.

“We are incredibly proud of this achievement and once again it illustrates the high standards of the assets that make up our connected Water Grid in South East Queensland.”

“Even though South East Queensland currently has a very strong water security position, our ability to reclaim and purify water is our insurance policy against future droughts, and the Luggage Point Advanced Water Treatment Plant is helping to drought-proof Brisbane’s water supply for the foreseeable future,” he said.

The Plant has supplied more than 10,150 megalitres of purified recycled water to industrial customers—water that would otherwise come from our drinking water supplies.

The Luggage Point Advanced Water Treatment Plant is one of three treatment plants, owned and operated by Seqwater, in the Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme that produces purified recycled water from wastewater. The Scheme supplies purified recycled water to South East Queensland’s power stations and new industrial customers as required.

Seqwater spokesperson Cedric Robillot said the Plant has the ability to provide up to 70 megalitres per day of purified recycled water. “In addition to this primary function the Plant also provides considerable environmental benefits reflecting extensive testing and research undertaken during construction by the Luggage Point Alliance, in partnership with joint venture partner CH2M HILL,” he said.

”The Plant is significantly reducing the level of nutrients entering the Brisbane River by reclaiming treated wastewater that would otherwise be discharged directly into the River and Moreton Bay.”

The process at the Plant involves nutrients and micro-contaminants being extracted as the water passes through a flocculation and settling step followed by a system of micro-filters, reverse osmosis membranes and UV-advanced oxidation reactors.

The Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme has now been awarded 18 international, national and state accolades including winning the 2010 Superior Achievement Award from the International Water Association, the water industry’s highest accolade.

The 2011 International WateReuse Project of the Year award was presented by the International WaterReuse Association on September 12, during the 26th Annual WateReuse Symposium in Phoenix, Arizona to recognise facilities whose significance and contributions have advanced the water reuse
industry internationally.

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