Seqwater is a

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of the

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that provides bulk

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, transport and treatment, water grid management and planning, catchment management and flood mitigation services to the

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region of

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. Seqwater also provides

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services to about 1,200 rural customers in the region that are not connected to the grid and provides recreation facilities. Seqwater was established on pursuant to the alongside three other statutory authorities: Linkwater, the SEQ Water Grid Manager and WaterSecure. Since that time Seqwater has retained its bulk water storage and treatment, catchment management and flood mitigation assets and functions while acquiring additional assets and functions in two tranches: * On 1 July 2011 the South East Queensland Water (Restructuring) Regulation 2011 transferred to Seqwater the assets and operating responsibilities of WaterSecure over the

Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme The Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme, a recycled water project, is located in the South East region of Queensland in Australia. The scheme is managed by Seqwater and forms a key part of the SEQ Water Grid constructed by the Queensland G ...

and the

Gold Coast Desalination Plant The Gold Coast Desalination Plant is a reverse osmosis, water desalination plant located in Bilinga, a seaside suburb of the Gold Coast, in Queensland, Australia. It supplies water to the South East Queensland region via the South East Que ...

, and the assets of Queensland Water Infrastructure Pty Ltd, principally the

Wyaralong Dam The Wyaralong Dam is a mass concrete gravity dam with an un-gated spillway across the Teviot Brook that is located in the South East region of Queensland, Australia. The main purpose of the dam is for supply of potable water for the Scenic ...

* On 1 January 2013 further legislative changes gave Seqwater the following functions: the management, operation and maintenance of

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bulk water

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previously provided by LinkWater; the water grid management services provided by the SEQ Water Grid Manager; and the long term planning functions of the region's future water needs, a function that was formerly undertaken by the Queensland Water Commission. Seqwater is managed by a chief executive who reports to a Board of Management that are ultimately responsible to the Minister for Regional Development and Manufacturing, and Minister for Water, presently

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and the Queensland Treasurer and Minister for Trade and Investment, presently Cameron Dick. The

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and Queensland Treasury provides administrative oversight of the statutory authority.

Background and functions

The formation of Seqwater was part of the reform of water supply arrangements by the Queensland Government that commenced in 2007. As part of these reforms an integrated approach to catchment-sourced management across the South East Queensland region was adopted with the expectation that this approach would help to ensure the long term security and sustainability of the region's catchment-based water supply. Initially, Seqwater was established to manage bulk water facilities in the region, a function previously managed by 25 different local government, state government and corporate entities. Seqwater is responsible for 25 dams (including

Wivenhoe Dam Wivenhoe Dam is a rock and earth-fill embankment dam with a concrete spillway across the Brisbane River in South East Queensland, Australia. The dam takes it names from the local Wivenhoe Pocket rural community. The dam wall is located abou ...

Somerset Dam The Somerset Dam is a mass concrete gravity dam with a gated spillway across the Stanley River in Queensland, Australia. It is within the locality of Somerset Dam in the Somerset Region in South East Queensland. The main purpose of the dam i ...

and

North Pine Dam The North Pine Dam is a concrete, mass concrete gravity dam, gravity dam with earth-fill dam, earth-fill embankment dam, embankments on abutments with a Spillway#Types, gated spillway across the North Pine River that is located in the South East ...

Hinze Dam The Hinze Dam is a rock and earth-fill embankment dam with an un-gated spillway across the Nerang River in the Gold Coast hinterland of South East, Queensland, Australia. The main purpose of the dam is for potable water supply of the Gold C ...

on the Gold Coast, and

Baroon Pocket Dam The Baroon Pocket Dam is a rock-fill dam, rock and earth-fill dam, earth-fill embankment dam, embankment dam with an Spillway#Types, un-gated spillway across the Obi Obi Creek, in North Maleny, Sunshine Coast Region, in South East Queensland, S ...

on the Sunshine Coast), which provide as much as 90 per cent of South East Queensland's drinking water supply. In addition, Seqwater owns 47 weirs, as well as operating 46 water treatment plant facilities and 14 groundwater borefields across South East Queensland. Seqwater is also responsible for a range of new water infrastructure projects and initiatives, including raising the dam wall of the

on the Gold Coast (completed in 2011), working with the Department of Infrastructure and Planning on the design phase of the Wyaralong Water Treatment Plant, and the fluoridation of the region's drinking water supply. It currently manages more than $10 billion worth of water supply assets, including 600 kilometres of bulk water pipelines connecting the water grid from the Sunshine Coast in the north to the Gold Coast in the south, the Western Corridor Recycling Scheme and the Gold Coast Desalination Plant. On 6 July 2015 Seqwater released ''Water for life'', a 30 year plan outlining measures to ensure a secure water supply for South East Queensland over the period to 2045.

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Seqwater

SEQ Water Grid

WaterSecure
* {{Authority control Water companies of Queensland Water management in Queensland Government agencies of Queensland Australia Queensland seqwater 2008 establishments in Australia South East Queensland

Background and functions

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