Paradise at the Business Park

Clown Killer is right.

The Airport has built two sewage recycling plants.
The quality of the water is better than greywater other residents are putting on their gardens and means the airport have pretty much all the water they want, as long as people keep going to the toilet.
This does however reduce the water that we send down the Murrumbidgee river, due to lower flows from the main sewage treatment plant in Holt.

So it’s all poo water?

I may need to reconsider my plans for extensive weekend parties between now and the end of Summer.

Seriously I was not alledging skullduggery by the Business Park, I was just astonished at seeing an operational fountain in the ACT.

Here’s an idea people … wait, I’m just getting the step ladder so that it will be easier for you to climb down from your high horse … maybe the waters recycled and part of Brindabella Business Parks industry leading commitment to environmental sustainability.

From the BBP website:

In another “first” for Canberra Airport, our Blackwater Recycling Treatment Plant was launched in May 2007. This system takes sewer (or “black”) water from the buildings and treats it to a drinkable level using a self cleaning membrane system and UV safety filters. After the treatment, the water is then used (along with rainwater captured off roofs) in toilets and externally for irrigation (whilst the water is drinkable, it is not used for drinking or showering). This was the first commercial large scale water recycling system in the ACT, and the first at an Australian Airport.

cranky: Slant drilling? That’s what started the Gulf War!

pptvb said :

Is there really a bore?
Some place misleading signs to cover their water wastage.
According to the sign on Hayden Dr. the Raiders training ground uses bore water.
Not true.
It comes from the CIT mains supply!

I’m sure if that were true ActewAGL would stop it or at least be aware of and sanction the use, given that they sponsor that particular training ground.

pptvb said :

Is there really a bore?
Some place misleading signs to cover their water wastage.

I think they use a bore, when the sprinklers are set on super high and splash onto cars there’s a chalky residue left behind.

Childcare centres and schools can’t have lawns, why should the airport?

p1 said :

Shame they can’t let there lawns die, and water some near where people live.

So its better to have green grass at the places where people are when it is mostly dark and they are asleep for most of the time than to have it where people are mostly during the day and might be able to appreciate it?

The good news is that some (all) of the urinals at Brindabella Park are waterless!!

sounds like the source has been unearthed – mrpc is the bore!

; )

Is there really a bore?
Some place misleading signs to cover their water wastage.
According to the sign on Hayden Dr. the Raiders training ground uses bore water.
Not true.
It comes from the CIT mains supply!

If it’s regarded as perfectly OK for environmentalist Professor Frank Fenner to sink a bore in his very large garden and avail himself of free groundwater at the Murray-Darling’s expense, I guess it’s hard to argue that the Snows can’t do same!

I work out there, and many of my coworkers play soccer in their lunch hour on that very field (pictured). I’d like to see the grass left to die, if only because I’m opposed to the game.

p1 said :

Shame they can’t let their lawns die, and water some near where people live.

The lawns at what used to be the main entrance are dead, Snow doesn’t bother lifting sod from areas where it isn’t wanted and moving it to the next green area.

What a waste of perfectly good water.

Shame they can’t let there lawns die, and water some near where people live.

It’s a good use of water, because the green grass indicates that it is photosynthesising effectly, and thus consuming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, making the environment better.

If the bore was drilled at a bit of an angle, you’d probably hit the Molonglo.

Water?? – Lay down misere!

Sounds like you are green with envy over the colour of this grass !

I was amazed at all the grass and trees and flowerbeds when I was checking in for my flight a few weeks back. But apparently they’ve sunk a large number of bores.