A major new water reservoir at Tanawha has officially been commissioned, marking a significant milestone in supporting the Sunshine Coast’s growing population.
Unitywater has celebrated the completion of the 12-megalitre Harmony Water Reservoir: a key piece of infrastructure that will help service an estimated 21,000 residents expected to live in Harmony by 2036. Standing 10m high and 40m wide, the reservoir is the newest major water infrastructure asset in the region and will support about 7800 new homes.
Unitywater chief executive officer Anna Jackson says the project forms part of the organisation’s long-term planning for the region’s growth.
“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 says.
“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 2.6-kilometre pipeline from the reservoir.”
Sunshine Coast Mayor Rosanna Natoli attended the reservoir-commissioning celebration and says the project represents an important investment in infrastructure for one of the region’s fastest-growing communities.
“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 says.
The reservoir forms part of Unitywater’s broader Aura and Harmony Program, which ultimately will deliver 27.6km of water and wastewater pipelines, two large reservoirs and a new wastewater pump station.
