Project Update - August 2019

Having worked with the community to identify a preferred solution to redirect untreated wastewater away from the last three remaining ocean outfalls at Vaucluse and Diamond Bay, this year we’re asking you for help to develop the concept design.

While we’ve already extensively modeled the wastewater system in your area to identify a solution, we still need to do more to better understand the topography, soil and site suitability.

Changing the way wastewater flows in your area means we need to reconfigure existing and new supporting infrastructure like underground pipes and pumping stations. However, recent advances in technology enables us to work with you to refine the concept design to have the least impact on the environment and the community — locating supporting infrastructure underground and using pipes which will be about 30cm in diameter and up to 70m below street level.

Working with you we expect to complete the concept design by the end of this year and following public submissions, complete environmental approvals by March 2020. Construction is then anticipated to start in the latter half of 2020.

Next steps

Throughout this process we will be seeking your views to help us refine the route, appearance, footprint and proposed construction approaches for the new infrastructure.

We’ve already held our first Community Reference Group in June 2019, and in the coming weeks and months we will be letter-boxing and holding local community information sessions, as well as seeking your views through Sydney Water Talk and interactive feedback online tools.

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Call 1800 732 069 or email vauclusediamondbay@sydneywater.com.au