BATHURST Regional Council has almost completed its planning to run a new water main to booming residential areas east of the Macquarie River.
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A report to council by engineering services director Darren Sturgiss said 4000 new homes were expected to be built east of the river over the next 30 years but there was still just a single water connection in place.
“This dependency on one source of supply carries a significant risk in the event of catastrophic failure given the remote and inaccessible location of a significant section of the single supply east of the Macquarie River,” the report states.
“In order to reduce the risk and increase redundancy council is installing a secondary supply to the eastern side of the Macquarie River.
“The new main will connect existing delivery mains in Durham Street to Hereford Street mains via the low level bridge.”
Mr Sturgiss said the secondary supply would not double the volume of water supply but would provide a “back-up supply and provide options” in the event of major water main failure.
“All investigation, survey, design and construction has been undertaken by Bathurst Regional Council staff and the project is now 90 per cent complete,” the report states.
Population forecasts commissioned by Bathurst Regional Council predict the region’s population will hit 53,361 by 2036.
The region’s population is tipped to grow by more than one per cent year-on-year for the next three decades.
Areas east of the river have been earmarked to house many of the region’s new residents.