Stormwater Pumping Begins Into Grange Aquifer
Source: South Australia. Environment and Conservation Minister. Media Release.
"Pumping of harvested stormwater from the $2.8 million Grange Golf Club Wetland has started, providing for hundreds of megalitres of water in the western suburbs to be captured and reused. Environment and Conservation Minister Jay Weatherill said the project would harvest stormwater runoff from surrounding suburbs, including Findon, Seaton and Woodville West, and clean it through a series of wetlands so it can be injected into the 90 metre deep aquifer for storage and then reused for sustainable irrigation. “Up to 320 megalitres of urban stormwater – the equivalent of 128 Olympic size swimming pools -potentially will be diverted each year from the Trimmer Parade and West Lakes Boulevard stormwater catchments into the wetland and away from our marine environment,” Mr Weatherill said."