Coliban Water
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Reclaiming the Campaspe River
Campaspe River landowners are taking the health of the river into their own hands by commissioning independent scientific monitoring of the waterway. The residents fear waste from the Kyneton Water Reclamation Plant will continue to pollute the river, as Coliban Water faces 11 criminal charges relating to the illegal discharge of thousands of litres of…
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Landowners along Campaspe want guarantee
Coliban Water must guarantee that the Campaspe River will never again be contaminated by non-EPA compliant releases of wastewater from the Kyneton Water Reclamation Plant, river landowners say. The landowners have accused Coliban Water and the state government of using the most recent announcement of upgrades to the plant to deflect attention away from charges…
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Overhaul for Kyneton Water Reclamation Plant
Coliban Water’s board has approved a major redevelopment of the Kyneton Water Reclamation Plant. The multimillion-dollar investment will more than double storage and increase irrigation capacity at the plant, as well as update treatment processes, so that only Class B water is used for off-site irrigation and tertiary treated water is released to the Campaspe…
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River in poor health: enviro students concerned about Campaspe
The plight of the Campaspe River has captured the attention of a group of year 11 environmental science students whose water sampling has raised concerns about the health of the waterway. The Sacred Heart College students have been following the issue of Coliban Water’s releases of wastewater from the Kyneton Water Reclamation Plant to the…
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Coliban Water on notice over discharges
Coliban Water will be required to measure its compliance for wastewater releases to the Campaspe River at the point of discharge at Kyneton. Following our report last week in which CW indicated it would install a new flow meter closer to the discharge point from the Kyneton Water Reclamation Plant, but would continue to measure…
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Campaspe River landholders label Coliban Water admission a ‘betrayal of trust’
Campaspe River landholders have slammed a new admission from Coliban Water as yet another “betrayal of trust” by the water authority. CW agreed several months ago to relocate the flow meter used to determine whether the releases of wastewater it makes from the Kyneton Water Reclamation Plant to the river are compliant with its EPA…
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More illegal water releases imminent
Coliban Water has issued a statement admitting it may be forced to make further non-compliant wastewater releases from its Kyneton Water Reclamation Plant to the Campaspe River in coming weeks. The admission follows a similar crisis in June this year when CW began unlicensed emergency discharges of thousands of litres of undiluted wastewater to the…
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Campaspe River landowners unimpressed with offsets project
A Coliban Water project aimed at improving water quality in the Campaspe River has left local landowners unimpressed. Coliban Water is investing $2.1 million in the Kyneton Offsets Project for fencing and revegetation works along the river. The project originally formed part of an application from Coliban Water to change its Environmental Protection Authority licence…
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Kyneton Water Reclamation Plant upgrade works to begin
Coliban Water has announced the first phase of planned works to improve trade waste and treatment processes at the Kyneton Water Reclamation Plant to help protect the Campaspe River. In June the water authority was forced to undertake daily unauthorised wastewater releases to the river to ensure lagoon embankments at the plant were protected, triggering…
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Deputy Leader of the Nationals in Kyneton to launch treatment plant petition
Deputy Leader of the Nationals Steph Ryan paid a visit to Kyneton today to launch a community petition calling on the Legislative Assembly to demand that the state government upgrade the Kyneton Water Reclamation Plant to facilitate the production of Class B water only. Ms Ryan met with affected landowners along the Campaspe River to…
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Residents fight Campaspe River discharge plan
Landowners along the Campaspe River are fighting a plan by Coliban Water to amend its EPA licence to allow it to continue releasing wastewater from the Kyneton Water Reclamation Plant to the river, but at a reduced dilution ratio. Coliban Water project director Tony Kelly confirmed that Coliban Water had formally requested the EPA approve…
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Fate up in the air
Judgement is still up in the air on a daring drone fishing stunt at Upper Coliban Reservoir under investigation by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority. A group of four men in their 20s found instant fame last week from a viral video of their fishing on the fly but could now face penalties of between…