TasWater welcomes today’s opening of Lions’ massive expansion of its specialty cheese plant in Burnie as a big vote of confidence in doing business in Tasmania, the multi-million dollar upgrade, a positive addition to the region.
TasWater has worked with Lion during the planning of the upgrade to ensure our sewerage network is capable of meeting the demands of the cheese plant.
To achieve this, TasWater is upgrading facilities including a new one kilometre sewer line along Old Surry Road and new pumping stations at Massy-Greene Drive and Fern Glade Road.
Currently underway, the project is being carried out by local company Shaw Contracting.
This work will increase the capacity of the sewerage network to handle the extra liquid trade waste from the cheese factory and also provide spare capacity to accommodate more industry expansion in the area.
As the provider of sewerage treatment facilities across the state, TasWater is aware of the importance of managing the collection, transport and treatment of liquid trade waste to minimise the impact on the community and environment.
Lion has worked closely with TasWater to determine the level of liquid trade waste able to be discharged from the cheese factory.
As part of it’s committed to manage the factory’s liquid trade waste, Lion has invested in a comprehensive on-site pre-treatment system to meet TasWater’s requirements.
TasWater’s General Manger of Asset and Product Management, Andrew Moir says “projects like the Lion Heritage Cheese expansion can only go ahead if Tasmania has the infrastructure to deal with industrial waste in line with current environmental standards.”
“Under our new Price and Service Plan, TasWater is upgrading its management and treatment of liquid trade waste across industry and small business,” Mr Moir said.
He says its essential TasWater knows what and how much liquid trade waste is going into the sewer network to be able to operate our treatment plants safely and efficiently.
“TasWater is planning to invest more than $330 million over the next three years in water and sewerage infrastructure to ensure we do our bit too to accommodate the waste out-put of Tasmania’s growing economy.”
“This investment is one way TasWater can help in giving companies like Lion confidence in Tasmania and we congratulate the company on its expansion enabling it to lift production to 11,000 tonnes of quality cheese each year and especially its commitment to the 250 employees at the Burnie factory,” Mr Moir said.
Simon Pilkington, TasWater
