Cronulla is one of about 30 water resource recovery facilities in Greater Sydney. Here, they treat wastewater to a tertiary standard. Some of the treated water for on-site reuse and return the rest to the environment.
Population served: 250,000 people
Area served: 145 square kilometres – including the suburbs of Cronulla, Sutherland, Helensburgh, Menai, Bundeena and Maianbar
Wastewater treated: 53 million litres each day
Treatment level: TertiaryRecycled water applications: They reuse some water on-site for industrial purposes like washing down equipment and filter backwashes.
Environmental discharge: They release the treated wastewater to the ocean at Potter Point, Kurnell.
Biosolids produced: 19,000 tonnes each year.
This cache replaces the now archived GC415M0 Sutherland Shire Cycleways - Cache #19 (Challenge). The decision to archive that cache came about after learning that a lot of cachers are using Adventure Lab caches and puzzle caches to fill in dates for their statistics without going out to do a Geocache.
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