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The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) completed more than 640 hectares of hazard reduction burning over the past seven days across the Hunter.
Plans to build a desalination plant at Belmont have been approved by the New South Wales Government, to help shore-up water security for the Lower Hunter.
The plant is designed to produce up to 30 million litres of drinking water per day, in response to drought.
The system involves piping seawater from a kilometre offshore to the plant, which will be built adjacent to the Belmont Wastewater Treatment Works on Ocean Park Road.
Hunter Water Managing Director Darren Cleary says desalination is one of only a few water supply options that is independent of rainfall.
He says it will help the state-owned corporation provide adequate drinking water regardless of changes in weather or climate.
Green Light for Belmont Desalination Plant
August 3, 2021
The proposed plant will be built next to the existing Wastewater Treatment Works. Image: NSW Government
A $200 million desalination plant at Belmont is one step closer to reality after the state government granted the project planning approval.
The proposed facility will be built next to the Belmont Wastewater Treatment Works at Nine Mile Beach, and when completed will have the capacity to produce up to 30 million litres per day of fresh drinking water.
The plant will help shore up water supply for the region, giving Hunter Water an additional source of safe and reliable drinking water during periods of low rainfall and severe drought.
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