Marion Council recycling 3 million litres of water per day

More than 3 million litres of recycled stormwater is greening the southern suburbs every day thanks to the Marion Water pipeline.

Marion Water – a business unit operated by Marion Council - has expanded its operations after signing its biggest contract with the Office for Sport, Recreation and Racing.

This has seen the delivery of recycled water to reserves, parks and facilities increased to 3 million litres a day following the sprinklers being turned on at the Women’s Memorial Playing Fields.

This follows a $5.6m extension to Marion Water’s pipeline that spans across three council areas.

The project delivers benefits to the Murray-Darling Basin by returning and additional 143ML of water entitlements towards the 450GL of environmental water under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan and diverting and treating urban stormwater run-off that would have otherwise entered Adelaide’s coastal waters.

The water is delivered to more than 40 reserves across the City of Marion, as well as Flinders University and the Women’s Memorial Playing Fields.

The treated stormwater is used at our own reserves as a priority, however surplus water is also sold to third party customers. 

They include the City of Mitcham, City of Holdfast Bay, Department for Education, Flinders University and the Office for Recreation, Sport and Racing.

The contract with the Office for Recreation, Sport and Racing is the largest since the Marion Water Business Unit was created.

The City of Marion’s vision was to develop the Marion Water business unit into a self-sustaining and full cost recovery business. This latest contract will deliver against this primary objective and supply over 300ML of treated stormwater across the region.

This latest 13km extension was jointly funded by council and the Australian Governments through the Off-Farm Efficiency Program.