A new 12-megalitre reservoir has started providing water to a rapidly growing Sunshine Coast area.
The Harmony Water Reservoir, at 180 Tanawha Road, is the newest piece of major water infrastructure in the region, standing 10m high and 40m across.
It will support about 7800 homes, and it will service about 21,000 residents who are set to live in Harmony by 2036.
It started operating in the past few months, before a commissioning celebration, including Unitywater representatives and Sunshine Coast Mayor Rosanna Natoli was held last week.
Unitywater CEO Anna Jackson provided further details about the facility.
“We provide essential, safe, reliable and sustainable water and wastewater services, and this asset is part of our broader Aura and Harmony capital delivery program to cater for these growing communities,” she said.
“An interesting design feature of this project is its construction, which comprises 40 concrete panels, all of them poured on site, that were raised up and pulled together with steel cables, the same technique used to make a wine barrel.
“It’s a significant piece of infrastructure, delivered in collaboration with our construction partner McConnell Dowell, that is now supplying water to homes in Harmony through a 2.6km pipeline from the reservoir.”
Mayor Natoli said the reservoir was an important investment in essential services for the growing area.
“Harmony is one of our region’s key master-planned communities and this will be of enormous benefit to those who call it home,” she said.
“Delivering the right infrastructure to support much-needed housing for the Sunshine Coast is so important as our population grows.
The Harmony Water project is part of Unitywater’s broader Aura and Harmony Program which when completed, will have delivered 27.6km of water and wastewater pipelines, two large water reservoirs, and a new wastewater pump station, to provide essential services for more than 71,000 future residents of Aura and Harmony.
