The Lower Molonglo Water Quality Control Centre (Sewerage Treatment Plant) is the largest inland plant of its kind in Australia. Just over a kilometre in length, the waste water and stormwater from Canberra’s northern suburbs make their way to the plant everyday.
LMWQCC was built in the 1970s and cost $50 million to build at the time. It would cost $800 million to build a similar treatment plant today.
The storage dam can hold up to 147 million litres of wastewater.
Each day the plant:
- treats 80 to 90 million litres of wastewater
- recycles an average of 10 million litres of wastewater
- removes approximately 1 million litres of sludge from the process for dewatering and incineration
- produces approximately 16 tonnes of Agri-Ash.
