Your questions answered!
The brick building near Burgess Creek is one of 113 pump stations in Noosa that helps transport your wastewater to the Noosa Wastewater Treatment Plant.
No wastewater from this pump station is released directly into the creek. Wastewater is pumped up to the Treatment Plant at a rate of 600 litres per minute to go through the treatment process. Every day, our pump stations in Noosa transfer 1.2 million litres of wastewater to this Treatment Plant.
Sometimes it can get a little smelly – after all, it’s pumping wastewater! But we do our best to keep things fresh with regular maintenance and specialised odour control units. Our control room team monitors our network 24/7.
Notice the brown colour of the creek? The tea-coloured water is caused by the decomposing tea tree and melaleuca leaves that fall into the creek. The wallum and Melaleuca paperbark trees produce the tannin colour.
It’s not caused by wastewater.
The same dark brown water can be seen in many other coastal creeks in Noosa and the Noosa Everglades.
We will have more of your questions answered and interesting facts over the coming weeks. Come back to stay informed!
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