Case Study

Coppabella Mine Accommodation Camp – Temporary Wastewater Treatment

The Mac Services Group provides mine site accommodation throughout Queensland’s central Bowen Basin region. While in the process of resolving longer term infrastructure requirements for the expansion of their coppabella camp, The Mac required a temporary sewage treatment system that would cope with the housed population. They chose Stornoway Water to provide two leased wastewater treatment systems capable of treating a total of 50m3 of wastewater each day.

Challenge

The Mac’s Coppabella accommodation camp was recently in urgent need of high quality sewage treatment to fulfil a short term requirement.

The client required an interim solution to ensure they were meeting their high environmental standards whilst they investigated a permanent treatment plant to deliver Class A+ recycled water. The quality of the wastewater treatment could not be compromised during this process and as such the client turned to the market to provide a high quality interim solution. The client’s main problem was finding a suitable treatment system for a 3-6 month period to be supplied on a very short lead time.

Solution

The client chose Stornoway Water to provide two Aqeo® AS 25 wastewater treatment plants both capable of treating 25m3 of wastewater per day or the equivalent of 100 people each. Stornoway Water was able to manufacture the treatment plants within 7 weeks of receipt of the client’s order. As well as the short lead time and high level of treatment capability, Stornoway Water was also able to provide the plants on a short term leasing basis. With the client in the middle of a large upgrade that would ultimately replace the temporary treatment system, the flexibility to lease an interim solution was the ideal outcome for the accommodation camp.

Results

With the plants supplied, installed and commissioned within the required delivery period, the camp was able to continue it’s expansion program while details of permanent sewage treatment infrastructure were resolved.