RECYCLED water will flow to Dandenong South estates, thanks to an 8.5 kilometre pipeline turned on this month.
The $6.7 million project will connect with 184 business lots in Dandenong LOGIS – Victoria’s first integrated eco-industrial business park – and 274 Meridian residential lots.
They’re the first new customers since the Eastern Treatment Plant in Bangholme was upgraded to produce Class A recycled water.
South Eastern Metropolitan Region MP Gordon Rich-Phillips said dual-pipe systems would see recycled water used outdoors for washing cars and watering gardens, and indoors for flushing toilets.
He said the Places Victoria, South East Water and Melbourne Water project would pave the way for similar initiatives and reduce demand on precious drinking water supplies.
“There are a number of other projects in the early planning stages that will see the use of Class A recycled water produced at the Eastern Treatment Plant steadily increase over time,” he said.
Mr Rich-Phillips said these would see households and businesses in the south east use more than five billion litres of Class A recycled water each year.
