Our Projects
ACTEW is undertaking a range of works to secure water for our region.
In October 2007, the ACT Government announced a range of new water supply projects which ACTEW is now working to implement. The major projects currently underway include the Enlarged Cotter Dam, the Murrumbidgee to Googong Water Transfer and the Tantangara Transfer.
ACTEW has also undertaken work to design a Demonstration Water Purification Plant, but construction of the plant has been deferred subject to the successful implementation of the other three projects and no further deterioration in inflows.
The Enlarged Cotter Dam project involves building a new dam downstream of the existing one to increase the Cotter Reservoir’s capacity from the current 4 gigalitres (GL) to around 78 GL – almost 20 times its current size.
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ACTEW is constructing a 12 km pipeline that will extract water from the Murrumbidgee River and discharge it at Burra Creek, where it will flow 13 km into the Googong Reservoir.
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The Tantangara Transfer involves transferring water from the regulated Murrumbidgee River to the ACT via the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
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