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July 2008

Cairns Regional Council Mayor Cr Val Schier held a media conference at the Marlin Coast Waste Water Treatment Plant. [more details].

March 2008

Visitors to the website will now be able to view images of works at each plant over the coming months. The Photo Gallery page will be fully operational in early April 2008.

Despite one of Cairn’s wettest March’s in recent years, works have progressed on the two established plants at Marlin Coast and Northern.

The Southern treatment plant has ramped up with site establishment and ground preparation works commencing.

January 2008

Work Underway

With the approval of the project to commence works the team have been busy at two of the four sites. Marlin Coast was the first site to kick off with site establishment and ground preparation works.

December 2007

Project Gets the Green Light

After 2 years of planning, the December 20th Cairns City Council Meeting saw the Council approve the commencement of the Cleaner Seas initiative which will take up to 3 years to fully complete.

Cains City Council has committed to spend $178 million on its Clean Seas revamp of waste water treatment in the city. Early estimates during the planning phase of $120 million some time ago fell short due to the skyrocketing construction and engineering costs.

The project brings with it huge economic benefits to the region such as the employment of hundreds of trades and service companies and support people. In addition this project makes provision for the additional capacity required for years to come for the city’s outstanding population growth as one of the fastest growing regional areas in Queensland.

The Cleaner Seas Project is being delivered by an alliance between Cairns Water, Cairns City Council and an expert team involving United Group Limited Infrastructure, CEC Construction, GHD and Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM).