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Scheme 1 Updated 10.01.19 Universal Water Recycling EVERY DROP COUNTS UWR SCHEME 1 Presented By: Joe Taranto Universal Water Recycling 37 Moon Mountain Drive, Mount View NSW 2325 [email protected] www.uwr.com.au copyright c 2013 Joe Taranto [email protected] UWR U n i v e r s a l Wa t e r R e c y c l i n g “Scheme 1” “The Hunter Bayswater Recycling Water Scheme” This optimum Sustainable Water Recycling Project, I believe with a passion, is the most viable solution for ‘“The Lower Hunter Water Plan.” If we combine Scheme 1 and 2 together it will be a solution to drought proof the majority of the Hunter, it will then be of State and National Importance. Servicing communities, agriculture, industries and the environment for the next century.’ 2 copyright c 2013 Joe Taranto UWR U n i v e r s a l Wa t e r R e c y c l i n g Index Page 4 Executive Summary Page 6 Schematic Sketch of THBRWS. Page 7 Subsea HDPE 22klm Pipeline Route. Page 8 Volumes of Water the Lower Hunter Uses. Page 9 Water Recycling Page 10 Water Banking plus Financial Projections Page 11 Vision. Page 12 Water Restrictions. Advanced Water Treatment Plants (AWTP) Water Treatment Plant (WTP) Method to Dispose of Saline Water Page 13 Reservoirs, Information Page 14 Method to determine cost of an AWTP. Page 15 Origin Energy Quote Page 16 Questions regarding THBRWS Page 18 Questions regarding the Emergency Desalination Option Page 18 Quotes and statements Page 19 Emergency Desalination overview Page 20 Transfer cost per Megalitre and Per Kilolitre Page 21 Method to Obtain WTP Page 21 Water Extraction and Pumping Costs from the Hunter River. Page 22 Infrastructure costs for THBRWS Page 24 W3Plus Consulting Page 30 Makai Ocean Engineering Preliminary Cost Analysis Page 37 Intellectual Property Matters Page 38 Cost of the HDPE Pipe Making Machine and production figures Page 40 Quote from Saunders International Reservoirs Page 44 Quote from Global Pipes Australia (GRP) Page 46 Schematic Sketch of the 2009 Major Water Scheme Page 47 Schematic Map - Extension to Flush Saline Water Pages 48-50 Lower Hunter Water Plan Pages 51-52 Volumes of Water That Can Be Harvested Page 53 New Project Developments 3 copyright c 2013 Joe Taranto UWR U n i v e r s a l Wa t e r R e c y c l i n g Executive Summary The Hunter region is expanding. Water demand is increasing. The Metropolitan Water Directorate is studying options available to meet the future requirements. An Independent Panel has been commissioned to over look the options and involve the public in the process of the future expansion of water needs. The extraordinary proposal described herein is innovative in the extreme, but clearly meets all criteria … efficiency at reasonable cost. Substantial International Engineering firms have become interested in the proposal and have cooperated with the proponent by providing advice and cost estimates for a Preliminary Cost Analysis for a 22 klm HDPE subsea pipeline system to transfer 45 ML/Day. The Bayswater Power Station is the largest consumer of water in the Hunter. “The Hunter Bayswater Recycling Water Scheme” herein described proposes to provide treated wastewater via a pipeline system, pumps, and Reservoirs, from the Burwood Waste Water Treatment Plant and other smaller treatment plants together with storm water capture to the Power Stations for cooling purposes. This substitution would allow for the existing freshwater sources, presently used for cooling, to be Water Banked or drawn into THBRWS to be treated to a drinking standard before entering Hunter Waters pipeline Infrastructure. Preliminary financial figures enclosed in this booklet indicate that the proposal is viable and lower in cost than any other proposition under consideration. This unique solution for the Lower Hunter Water Plan will provide the water needs for more customers, delivering up to 16,425 ML per annum and will last 50 to 100 years. I believe with a passion that this Project is of National Importance. It will use less energy, infrastructure and operating costs are far less than any Desalination option, University of NSW water specialist Dr Khan said 16-10 - 2013 “Recycling water used less energy and was much less expensive than desalination”. This project will be the arteries for future developments. This project would put the community first. 4 copyright c 2013 Joe Taranto UWR U n i v e r s a l Wa t e r R e c y c l i n g Executive Summary Water it is our most precious resource! The whole system in the Hunter Valley needs to change to conserve this precious resource. More than 50 Power Stations in America use recycled water in their Power Station to help supplement supply where water is scarce. Queensland use recycled water in “The Western Corridor project”, to help supplement 3 of their Power Stations The AGL Power Station, the thirstiest water consumer in the Hunter Valley can use up to 70 Gigaliters per annum of water from Glenbawn Dam; this water with little treatment is of a potable grade. The Burwood Treatment Plant treats 50ML/d of sewage water, Primary, Secondary and towards Tertiary level and then discharges it into the ocean. 5 Million Buckets a day, or almost 1 Chichester Dam per annum, (see page 50. ) The project is a Water exchange system. (please note this proposal was submitted at the end of 2012, volumes now with population have increased from 45 to 50 ML/d.) 5 copyright c 2013 Joe Taranto UWR U n i v e r s a l Wa t e r R e c y c l i n g THE HUNTER BAYSWATER RECYCLING WATER SCHEME Transfer project will exchange 45 megalitres of treated waste water per day to the Power Station and draw 45 megalitres of potable grade water from the Hunter River near Branxton. The Western Corridor Recycling Water Scheme, Queensland over 200km of large diameter pipeline supplying purified recycled water to 3 Power Stations. o GlenbawnMuswellbrook Dam T This Lower Hunter Water option has approximately 130kms of a smaller diameter pipeline that will supply purified recycled water to our Power Station. Bayswater Power 120 metres above sea level Station Singleton Pipeline 100klm via the 8km pipeline from river to reservoir. Power Grid Easement Reservoir connected to Hunter Water Infrastructure Branxton Huntlee (New Town) Hunter River Pumping Station Dual Reticulation Reservoir Maitland Reservoir if needed Size yet to be confirmed Water Treatment Plant - would be needed to treat water to drinking standards Cessnock Hexham Treated Waste Water GRP Pipe or HDPE 50 Megalitre Reservoir Ironbark Recycled Purified Water Creek Town, Vineyards, Industry Hunter River Potable Grade Water 50 Megalitre Reservoir Potable Grade Water Burwood Waste Water High Density Polyethelene Treatment Plant Subsea Pipeline Pipeline (HDPE) Newcastle 6 22km HDPE copyright c 2013 Joe Taranto UWR U n i v e r s a l Wa t e r R e c y c l i n g Ironbark Creek 2 5km Tourle Street Bridge 7km Burwood Waste AWTP Water Treatment Plant 1 1 2 potential Reservoir sites if needed 2 has rail infrastructure for nutrient removal 2 Pump Station HDPE sub sea pipe line Advanced Water Treatment Plant copyright c 2013 Joe Taranto UWR U n i v e r s a l Wa t e r R e c y c l i n g The Lower Hunter The volumes of water the Lower Hunter uses domestically and industrially is around 80 GL per annum. The Bayswater Power Station just north of Singleton which powers 40% of NSW, also uses around 80 GL per annum. Most of its water supply is from Glenbawn Dam. This water is released from the dam and flows down stream and is then pumped into Plasshett Reservoir, from there to the Power Station for cooling purposes. The majority of this water, with a little treatment, is of potable grade. Plasshett Reservoir and Lake Liddell, which service the Power Station, is approximately 120 metres above sea level. 8 copyright c 2013 Joe Taranto UWR U n i v e r s a l Wa t e r R e c y c l i n g Water Recycling Hunter Water Currently recycles around 9% of its water. This will increase to approximately 15% with the completion of the Kooragang Industrial water scheme. This still leaves 85% of Hunter Water that is not being utilized. Israel recycles 90% of its waste water. The Burwood Treatment Plant currently discharges around 45 ML/d. The Burwood treatment plant treats its water to a secondary stage level before it is discharged into the ocean. We have the technology to treat this water further towards tertiary levels, it may require additional new digesters and screening into the system, this will require extra energy and costs. Israel also uses its separated matter to produce methane gas, which meets 70% of its electricity requirements of the plant. Water is life, it is our most precious resource, an investment to improve and update the plant to treat this water to a suitable grade for the Power Station would cost far less than to desalinate sea water. 9 copyright c 2013 Joe Taranto UWR U n i v e r s a l Wa t e r R e c y c l i n g Water Banking The proposed project (THBRWS) unlike the proposed Temporary Desalination Plant would operate everyday, even in times of wet weather and when water is not needed in the Lower Hunter, when Grahamtown's Dam and Chichester Dam water levels are high.
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