The works include the relining 37 km of up to 225 mm reticulation pipelines and 5 km of branch sewers, pipe cracking 1.5 km of reticulation sewers, and sliplining around 2.6 km of reticulation sewer.

With the contract set to expire in June 2005, South East Water went through a formal public tendering process in April this year, with a three-year Sewer Rehabilitation Contract again awarded to Kembla.

South East Water is one of Melbourne’s three metropolitan retail water businesses, providing water and sewerage services to 1.3 million people throughout 3,640 square km across Port Melbourne, Portsea, Mordialloc, Berwick and in between.

South East Water manages infrastructure and assets with a net book value of $A1.2 billion, meeting the diverse needs of its 537,700 residential, 48,500 non-residential and 7,580 trade waste customers.

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South East Water is committed to delivering excellence and leadership in environmental, social and financial performance by drawing on the latest information management systems and practices, closely monitoring, verifying and reporting performance to ensure all aspects of the business meet or exceed the stated targets.

Kembla Managing Director Chris Meredith said “Over the past three years Kembla’s Victorian Division has consolidated its position in the State and has worked hard to deliver high quality services to our other clients. Long-term contracts allow quick responses to changing priorities and let clients to select the most appropriate rehabilitation technique, maximising the length of asset being rehabilitated and minimising costs.”