Mt Kynoch Water Treatment Plant sludge thickener

Council's Mt Kynoch Water Treatment Plant located at the northern entry into Toowoomba treats raw water from Cooby, Perseverance and Cressbrook storage dams.  The plant has the capacity to treat up to 65 million litres of raw water a day to produce drinking water that exceeds the quality standards set down by the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines.

The treatment process generates sludge that comprises mainly water with suspended solids.  Currently the sludge, with limited dewatering, is diverted to Council's Wetalla Water Reclamation Facility for treatment.

The Mt Kynoch Water Treatment Plant sludge thickener with a 11.6 metre diameter clarifier (settling tank) and ancillary pumping equipment, pipe work and control systems will enable a significant reduction in the quantity of waste sludge being diverted to the Wetalla WRF.  Water that is reclaimed from the sludge dewatering process is recycled to the head of the water treatment process.

Greater efficiencies in the operation and maintenance of both the Mt Kynoch WTP and Wetalla WRF together with water savings, will result from the installation of the thickener.