SYDNEY – Oct. 6, 2004 - A $1.7 million water recycling system is being designed for the for Liverpool Golf Club, which will deliver up to 300,000 liters of recycled water each day to irrigate the course.

Once complete, the scheme will substitute approximately 80 million liters of drinking water every year with treated effluent.

A four-kilometer pipeline will travel mostly below ground from the Liverpool sewage treatment plant along Governor Macquarie Drive, Charlton Avenue to Homestead Park, then underneath the Georges River to Howard Street and Hollywood Drive where it will meet the golf course.

The Club is committed to sound environmental and water conservation practices. The scheme will also mean lusher greens for golfers.

The Liverpool Golf Club will join Dunheved, Ashlar, Castle Hill Country Club, Richmond and Kiama Golf Courses, which also benefit from Sydney Water recycled water schemes.

The project is due for completion by late October 2004, in time for the summer golfing season.

In all, 13 recycling schemes are underway in the Sydney region and another 14 sites are being investigated or implemented, including the $27 million Blue Scope Steel recycled water pipeline.

Combined, these recycling schemes will save billions of litres of drinking water every year and play an important part in securing Sydney’s water supply.