EARLY 2019 is when Brim, Beulah, Woomelang and Sea Lake residents can expect to have a clean drinking water supply.
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Pipeline construction on GWMWater’s $17 million Mallee Towns Drinking Water Supply Project started earlier this year.
GWMWater’s managing director Mark Williams said that on the project was well underway and was proceeding according to plan.
“We expect major works to be completed in December 2018,” he said.
“Following extensive trials and testing, treated drinking water should begin flowing into homes and businesses in April 2019.”
The project will see treated water from the Warracknabeal Water Treatment Plant pumped through 130 kilometres of pipeline to pumping stations and storage tanks situated at Warracknabeal, Hopetoun and Sea Lake.
At the moment, Brim, Beulah and Woomelang’s water supplies are retrieved from Supply System 2 of the Wimmera Mallee Pipeline.
Once the project is complete, Brim, Beulah, Sea Lake and Woomelang’s water supply will be sourced from Lake Bellfield.
Works on the project that are already completed include two 2.4 megalitre storage tanks at Warracknabeal, and the first 37 kilometres of pipeline between Warracknabeal and Beulah.
Construction has begun on two pumping stations in Warracknabeal, and one pumping station and two 1 megalitre storage tanks in Hopetoun.
Construction on the remaining sections of pipeline is due to begin in the coming weeks.
GWMWater spokesman Andrew Rose said there had been a few delays in the pipeline construction.
“There has been some delays with getting supplies of pipe, as we are using the same type of pipe as the South West Loddon Project,” he said.
