What is the Rosehill–Camellia Recycled Water Scheme?
It is a major industrial recycled water scheme for Western Sydney. The Rosehill–Camellia Recycled Water Scheme will initially supply around 4.3 billion litres per year of recycled water to industry and there is potential for the project to be expanded by a further 3 billion litres a year to customers in Westmead, Parramatta, Wetherill Park, Fairfield and Liverpool. The $100 million scheme will be built, owned and operated by AquaNet Sydney Pty Ltd and Veolia Water Australia. A new recycled water plant will be built next to the sewage treatment plant at Fairfield. The recycled water plant will draw secondary treated effluent from Sydney Water’s new Liverpool to Ashfield pipeline and treat it by reverse osmosis and ultrafiltration to a high quality suitable for irrigation, use in cooling towers and as boiler feed. A 20 kilometre pipe network will connect the recycled water to customers’ properties. A proportion of the pipe network will consist of re-used gas mains already in the ground.
