The project is a key component of Hunter Water’s Lower Hunter Water Security Plan, which aims to ensure the region has a resilient and sustainable water supply into the future.
Construction will begin later in 2024 with completion scheduled for 2028.
The project will help reduce the rate of water storage depletion in the Lower Hunter catchment during a long and severe drought by around six months, which in turn will delay the need to implement water restrictions.
John Holland’s experience in designing and constructing desalination facilities goes back to the Gold Coast and Sydney Desalination Plants which switched on in 2010, and more recently have delivered regional desalination projects in South Australia.
In the past two decades John Holland has delivered more than 300 water projects around Australia, including pipelines, desalination plants and water and wastewater treatment facilities.
