Australia, HDD, Water

Water mains see upgrade

Over the next six months, several towns in Eastern Victoria will have new water mains installed to improve drinking water and see a more secure water supply.

A spokesperson from Gippsland Water said they are “constantly planning for the future and upgrading your water and wastewater services”.

“Through our planned renewal program, we replace ageing water mains and upgrade sewer mains across our service area,” the company said.

“We replace water mains by installing a new water main in a similar alignment to the existing main. We then connect customers to the new main.

“When we replace old water mains, we assess whether the size of pipe we’re replacing is still suitable for the current demand and decide if we need to replace it with a larger main to continue meeting demand as towns grow.

“Our team carefully analyses the expected future demand so we don’t install more costly larger pipes if they aren’t needed.”

Gippsland Water will use horizontal directional drilling (HDD) techniques, enabling the team to reduce the traffic and public transport impact of the works, compared with using more traditional trenching methods.

Already this year, almost 5km of water mains have been replaced in Morwell, Traralgon, Churchill, Sale and Stratford.

From now through until June, 11 more water mains will be replaced, they are:

  • Central Avenue, Newborough
  • Monash Road, Newborough
  • March St, Newborough
  • Tyers Street, Newborough
  • Henty Street, Noojee
  • Mt Baw Baw Tourist Road, Noojee
  • School Roaw, Noojee
  • Picton Court, Sale
  • Eremin Court, Wurruk
  • Maffra Road, Heyfield
  • Knight Street, Maffra

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