We are improving wastewater services in Richmond and North Richmond

It’s been an exciting month at the Richmond Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF) as concrete pouring has started to form a new bioreactor structure. The structure will hold wastewater where it is cleaned then further treated and purified ready to be reused as irrigation water.

The concrete pour was the first of twenty-nine that are needed, equalling a massive 2500 m3 of concrete and 600 tonnes of reinforcing. The structure will receive additional flow from a new 6.9 km long transfer pipeline from the North Richmond wastewater treatment system to the Richmond Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF), an upgrade that will allow the Richmond Facility to receive, treat and reuse additional flows of wastewater as recycled water.

The upgrade will provide improved wastewater services for the projected population growth in Richmond and North Richmond area in the next 30 years.