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NSW
Environment Protection Authority
(EPA)
Presentation to Sydney Coastal
Councils Group Technical Committee
7 May 2015
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EPA’s role and regulation of Sydney Water
EPA is the appropriate regulatory authority of Sydney Water’s
activities under the Protection of the Environment Operations
Act (POEO Act)
• licensed activities
• non - licensed activities
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Key areas of EPA focus in relation to Sydney
Water activities
• Water quality impacts
• Nutrients in inland waters
• Odours
• Noise from construction and maintenance
operations
• Risks to human health
• Risks to visual and recreational amenity
EPA regulation of Sydney Water activities / operations
EPA has both a reactive and strategic aspect to its
regulation of Sydney Water
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Reactive response
• Auditing
• Incidents
• reports to Environment Line (public and Sydney
Water)
• Compliance with licences and POEO Act
• Investigations and regulatory action
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Recent EPA Regulatory Responses
The EPA focuses its
regulatory effort on risk
Sydney Water has been
subject to regulatory
action by the EPA
Fines have recently
increased
EPA’s key strategic issues for Sydney Water
Wet Weather Overflow
Abatement program
Hawkesbury - Nepean
Nutrient Management
Strategy
Dry weather overflow &
leakage programs
Winmalee STP Upgrade
Potable Water
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IPART’s review of Sydney Water’s Operating Licence
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IPART is a separate regulator
for Sydney Water
EPA provided comment on
recent review of Sydney
Water’s OL.
The EPA does not have a role
in determining Priority Sewage
Program obligations.
NSW Environmental Trust Grant Project –
Sewer leak investigations training course for council officers
Joint project with Sydney Water
Private sewer accounts for 50% of
Sydney’s sewerage network
Council is ARA for private sewer
Provide training to Councils to
detect, investigate and regulate
private sewer leaks
Workshop and fieldtrip
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Review of Sydney Water’s sewage treatment
system licences
• 5 year statutory review of Sydney Water’s 23 STS
EPLs
• EPA is not proposing any of its own major changes
to licences
• Focus of this Review is seeking public feedback on
licences
Sydney Water STS licences under review
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Licence
Number
Sewage Treatment
System
Location of Sewage Treatment Plant
1784 Warriewood Warriewood road, Warriewood, NSW 2102
378 Northern Suburbs Blue Fish Road, Manly, NSW 2095
1728 Cronulla Captain Cook Drive, Kurnell, NSW 2231
1688 Bondi Military Road, Bondi, NSW 2026
372 Southern Suburbs Fishermans Road, Malabar, NSW 2036
750 Hornsby Heights Pike Road, Hornsby Heights, NSW 2077
1695 West Hornsby off Valley Road, Hornsby, NSW 2077
12438 Brooklyn lot 4 Brooklyn Road, Brooklyn, NSW 2083
1725 Castle Hill Wrights Road, Kellyville, NSW 2155
190 North Richmond cnr Bells Line of Road & Crooked Lane, North Richmond, NSW
2754
1409 Penrith Castlereagh Road, Penrith, NSW 2750
1729 St Marys off links Road, St Marys, NSW 2760
1675 West Camden corner of Sheathers and Ferguson lanes, Grasmere, NSW
2570
1724 Quakers Hill Quakers Road (near Melrose Avenue), Quakers Hill, NSW
2763
1796 Riverstone Bandon Road, Vineyard, NSW 2765
1726 Richmond Blacktown Road, Richmond, NSW 2753
211 Shellharbour Junction Road, Shellharbour, NSW 2529
218 Wollongong Port Kembla Road, Wollongong, NSW 2500
2269 Bombo Darien Avenue, Bombo, NSW 2533
1963 Winmalee off Hawkesbury Road, Winmalee, NSW 2777
4965 Rouse Hill Mile End Road, Rouse Hill, NSW 2155
10555 Picton Remembrance Drive, Picton, NSW 2571
12235 Wallacia Nortons Basin Road, Wallacia, NSW 2745
Public consultation for Licence Review
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Comments on conditions
contained in Sydney Water’s
licences
Any concerns about licences
and their operations
Any issues that should be
considered for inclusion in
licences
EPA will review and consider
all submissions
Report responding to Licence
Review submissions on EPA’s
website
Submissions
List of licences, fact sheet and information about the review process
are available on EPA’s websites at
http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/licensing/sydney-water.htm
Copies of licences from EPA’s Public Register at
www.epa.nsw.gov.au/prpoeoapp/
Submissions by 1 May 2015 (but extension granted to SCCG)
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Questions?
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SCCG Presentation – May 2015
Wastewater Servicing
in Sydney
Iain Fairbairn
Wastewater Product Manager
Why do we love the sea?
It is because it has some
potent power to make us
think things we like to think.
Robert Henri (1865-1929)
The Wastewater mission
Protect public health and the environment from wastewater
sources, now and into the future
Provide an efficient and effective service to customers
Engage with customers, stakeholders and regulators on our
service
Sydney’s Wastewater Service Stats
Approximately 4.7 million people serviced by our wastewater
systems – equates to around 1.8 million properties connected
Around 470,000 ML of wastewater collected each year
Own and operate around 24,786 km of wastewater mains
A similar length of privately owned sewer service lines
679 wastewater pumping stations in service
24 Wastewater systems and 30 treatment plants
– 11 coastal plants with ocean discharge
– 19 inland plants with river/creek discharge
23 Environmental Protection Licences for wastewater systems
75% of wastewater treated at Deep Ocean Outfall plants
Coastal Wastewater Systems
Four ocean outfalls (North Head, Bondi, Malabar and
Wollongong)
Primary treatment suitable for deep ocean outfall discharge
Secondary treatment suitable for shoreline discharge
Tertiary treatment required for recycled water production and river
discharges
Sydney beaches and harbour largely free of wastewater pollution
from treatment plant discharges
This result has been confirmed by Beachwatch and our Sewage
Treatment System Impact Monitoring Program
Some impacts of wastewater pollution from overflows, particularly
into local streams and rivers.
Historical Big Wins
2013-14 State of the Beaches
2013-14 State of the Beaches
Current Issues
Incompatible material in sewers
Industrial and commercial waste
Wipes and sanitary products
Fat, oil and grease
Blockages in wastewater pipes - overflows
Infiltration and illegal storm water connections - overflows
Aging infrastructure which is often difficult to maintain
Corrosion and odour in wastewater system
Growth across Sydney
Infill in established suburbs
Greenfield in western Sydney
Current IssuesWastewater Treatment and Discharge
Odour, noise and visual impacts on local neighbours
Wastewater leaks and overflows
If a substantial leak or overflow is detected, ring Sydney Water
immediately on 13 20 90.
24hr call centre will priorities work and dispatch a crew
Most sewer overflows are high priority (P6 or P5)
P6 – get to the site in 1 hr and stop overflow in 3 hrs
P5 – get to site in 3 hrs and stop overflow in 5 hrs
Some jobs are difficult to attend to and access
Many sewer leaks are found to be on private lines
Landowner is responsible to fix these and council is the
appropriate regulatory authority
Sydney Water is keen to help councils to trace private sewer
leaks
Continued Investment 2016-2020Major investment in our infrastructure is continuing.
$365m - Renewal of treatment plant assets
$275m - Renewal of sewer mains
$204m - Stormwater renewals and naturalisation
$152m - Wet Weather Overflow Improvements
$62m - Dry Weather Overflow Abatement Program
$89m - Renewal and upgrade of pumping stations
$56m - Telemetry and Control upgrades (Bondi, Cronulla, Hornsbys)
$51m - Malabar Process and Reliability/Renewals(PARR) Project
$45m - Odour and corrosion in sewer system (Coogee, Malabar
Cronulla and North Head)
$41m – Biosolids processing upgrade at North Head
$7m - Replacement of NSOOS Odour Scrubber
$1.3m - Coastal waterway modelling (Sydney Harbour/Botany Bay)
Future of Wastewater Servicing
Greater community involvement in planning and decision
making
Integrated solutions embracing WSUD concepts
Open and transparent information sharing
Dynamic control of the entire wastewater service
Extracting capacity from existing assets
Real time information available for community
Less prescriptive regulation – risk and effects based
We are keen to work with CouncilsStormwater is a major source of pollution
Lack of coordination to drive successful outcomes
Interrelationship between stormwater and wastewater pollution
Recycling of organic waste through digestion
We have information that we are happy to share
We have capability in water sampling and investigations
We share the same customers, we are on the same journey
THE COAL LOADER
PLATFORM GREEN - ROOF
Presentation for
Sydney Coastal Councils Group
Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability
7 May 2015
David Banbury
Project Manager / Landscape Architect
Open Space & Environmental Services
North Sydney Council
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They're taking it, the shipping push,
As all the rest must go —
The only spot of cliff and bush
That harbour people know.
The spirit of the past is dead
North Sydney has no soul —
The State is cutting down Ball's Head.
To make a wharf for coal.
Verse 1 . The Sacrifice of Balls Head. Henry Lawson, 1916
Working Waterfront
Quarantine Depot
COAL
LOADERFORMER
BP SITE
BALLS HEAD RESERVE
Harbour
Circle WalkCOAL
LOADER
Coal Loader under construction c.1917. Photo: North Sydney Heritage
Centre. Stanton Library
Coal Loader under construction c.1917. Photo: North Sydney Heritage
Centre. Stanton Library
MPG