How much water will the pulp mill use?
Water is a fundamental resource requirement of a pulp mill. It is used in all of the cooking, cooling and washing processes.The proposed pulp mill at Bell Bay is designed to use 23.5 m3 of water per tonne of pulp produced.The required raw water supply when operating at full capacity of 1.1 million air dried tonne of pulp each year is 25.85 million m3 each year. This amount is also referred to as 26 gigalitres a year, or another way of expressing this is 26,000 megalitres. This water will be supplied from the Trevallyn Dam via a pipeline.
