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Water Reuse

As we head through the 21st century and into an ever increasing need for water conservation, water re-use is becoming more the norm than the exception. Many of our projects now involve some kind of water harvesting, storage, treatment and re-use. Stormwater, wetlands, aquifer storage & recovery, managed aquifer recharge, recycling and treated wastewater are often included in the mix these days.

Oaklands Park - stormwater MAR

The Oaklands Park Wetland and Stormwater Reuse Scheme is an innovative project that ultimately provides treated stormwater to irrigate up to 30 neighbouring council reserves. The site is located adjacent to t...

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Aldinga Managed Aquifer Recharge

In 2009-10 following involvement in the ground-breaking preliminary trials in 2001, HydroPlan became the designer and project manager in charge of constructing and commissioning a Managed Aquifer Recharge (MA...

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Margaret River recycled water scheme

HydroPlan was engaged to design a $3 million Margaret River water recycling project for the Augusta-Margaret River Shire in WA . Prior to this scheme being implemented, all the treated water was used ...

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Willunga Basin Reclaimed Water Pipeline

The Willunga Basin Pipeline is a large reclaimed water scheme which is owned and operated by its water users. Despite being funded without government assistance, it continues to expand, providing a catalyst f...

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Royal Adelaide Golf Club

One of Australia’s top ten ranked courses, The Royal Adelaide Golf Club is situated on the coastal sand belt between Adelaide’s CBD and the beaches of Gulf St Vincent. This private links style cou...

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Glenelg to Adelaide Recycled Water Scheme - Irrigation Risk Management Plan

The Glenelg to Adelaide Recycled Water Project is a landmark project which delivers a sustainable supply of recycled water for the Adelaide Park Lands and other sites in and around the city of Adelaide. ...

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Mawson Lakes

Prior to handover of the non-potable network at Mawson Lakes to SA Water and open space irrigation to City of Salisbury, Delfin Lend Lease and partners engaged HydroPlan to liaise with all stakeholders to pre...

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Willunga Township - Waterproofing the South

As part of Waterproofing the South and an initiative to minimise use of potable water for irrigation, the City of Onkaparinga engaged HydroPlan to design an irrigation distribution scheme for sites within the...

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Feature Project

Muswellbrook Race Club

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Muswellbrook Race Club is one of the premier regional race tracks in NSW located in the upper Hunter Valley.

The existing pop up sprinkler irrigation system was under performing with race course maintenance staff forced to irrigate both the course proper and B grass training track using 100mm hand shift aluminium spray lines to maintain any sort of acceptable surface.

HydroPlan carried out a site audit and review of the existing system with results showing that the current system was incapable of meeting acceptable standard of water distribution uniformity.

Water was being supplied to the existing system from the Hunter River which is located approximately 1km from the track. Pumping capacity and losses within the piping network resulted in extremely high pressure losses and therefore leaving inadequate pressure at the sprinklers. The course proper in the true running rail position is 25m wide yet the pop up sprinklers installed had a maximum radius of 18m.

HydroPlan were then engaged to prepare a master plan for a replacement irrigation system. Due to budget requirements the planned construction was separated into four (4) stages:

Pumping station
Course proper
B grass training track
Sand and cinders training tracks.

Onsite storage was constructed by clay lining and sealing an onsite storage pond. The existing river pump station was retained and converted to a water transfer system. A new multiple pump unit variable frequency drive irrigation pumping station was installed at the storage pond.

New PE main line piping was installed with the course proper irrigated with valve in head sprinklers connected directly to the inside and outside running rail ring mains.

A decoder control system operates the sprinklers and is linked to a central management PC control package.

New ring mains, solenoid control valves, laterals and block sprinklers were installed on the B grass, sand and cinders training tracks as the final stage of works.

Muswellbrook Race Club is one of the premier regional race tracks in NSW located in the upper H...