Water and Wastewater
Western Treatment Plant 5 West Nutrient Removal Plant
Location
Victoria
Value
$330 million
Client
Melbourne Water
Status
Complete
About the project
BMD successfully delivered the final stage of Melbourne Water’s three stage expansion works at the Western Treatment Plant in Werribee, Victoria.
This critical upgrade involved constructing a new nutrient removal plant capable of processing 150 million litres of wastewater per day, replacing the existing 55E activated sludge plant. As the Western Treatment Plant handles almost half of Melbourne's sewage, this upgrade is important for maintaining the city's environmental and public health standards. The improved infrastructure has:
- addressed historical and future growth
- renewed aging equipment and improve overall plant efficiency
- enhanced safety for operation activities and facilitate elimination of current high risk maintenance works, such as diving and working over water from boats
- implemented lower cost, more energy efficient treatment technology, such as short cut nitrogen removal process.