Australian Water Management Review Vol 2 2013 | Page 74

ABergelDie Complex infrAstruCture
Boyle. “Through our years of designing and building sewage and wastewater treatment plants, we have developed sludge removal systems that do a great job in treating mine drilling process water. With some technical adjustments to the set up, the same sorts of polymer treatment and belt press filter systems you’ll find dewatering sewage sludge on our sewage treatment plant projects can work just as well on cleaning up water for re-use on drilling projects.” Abergeldie’s experience with water treatment plant design and construction spans the full range of technologies and process systems. Their broad expertise and capacity was recently recognised by Sydney Water Corporation’s appointment of Abergeldie as one of a small panel of prequalified companies for its five year, $300 million Network Facilities Renewal Program which will upgrade sewage and wastewater treatment facilities right across the Sydney region. To date Abergeldie has been awarded project package contracts for upgrades at Bondi, North Head, Malabar, Meadowbank and Westmead. There will be more to come. projects. More than 12 years ago, they pioneered installation of a membrane bioreactor plant at North Head in Sydney to treat and recycle raw sewage to a standard good enough to replace potable water in the plant’s operational processes. At the time, it was the biggest membrane bioreactor plant in Australia. More recently, at Wollongong Abergeldie designed and built a reverse osmosis plant to treat sewage and wastewater to tertiary standards, delivering 25ML of safe water every day to the Port Kembla Coal Terminal for coal dust suppression, and to Wollongong Council and a local golf club for irrigation. They have a