The corporate plan at work

This plan commits Southern Water to the following deliverables:

  • Sustainably addressing water quality issues across the region;
  • rectifying safety issues affecting plant, equipment and facilities;
  • Reducing the number of sewerage spills in dry weather and overflows during rainfall events;
  • Upgrading priority wastewater treatment plants;
  • Commencing the necessary upgrades to regional wastewater systems in the Derwent and Kingborough areas;
  • Implementing a billing system capable of providing for two part pricing;
  • Metering unmetered properties;
  • delivering more than $46M in sustainable distributions to our owner councils; and
  • Planning and working with communities where service extensions have been identified.

 

Our capital expenditure plan for 2010-13 makes provision for the following major works:
  • Southern Region Water Meter Project
  • Kingborough Wastewater Regionalisation
  • Lauderdale Sewerage System, Stage One
  • Margate Augmentation
  • Swansea Water Supply Development
  • Lenah Valley Water Supply Augmentation
  • Huon Valley Regional Water Scheme
  • Small Towns Boil Water Notice Removal
  • Reservoir Roofing Program
  • South East Tasmania Water Recycling Scheme

The Corporate Plan 2010-2013 provides a platform for the development of Southern Water as a leading practice organisation.  Becoming a unified regional organisation with one culture and integrated management systems supporting fit for purpose infrastructure is accorded a high priority in the plan.  Our initiatives for cultural change have a strong focus on safety, community service and no spills.  Training, communications and systems development to support the desired change will receive additional resources.

In fulfilling its obligations Southern Water employs more than 300 people and manages the following key assets:

  • Connections: 95,304 water / 86,013 sewer
  • Length of water mains: 3,008 km
  • Length of sewer mains: 2,060 km
  • Level 2 wastewater treatment plants: 31
  • Level 1 wastewater treatment plants: 17 
  • Catchments: 48
  • Water supply dams: 69
  • Drinking water treatment plants/dosing stations: 25
  • Pump stations: 401