Thread: Putting forward the idea of piping water from Tas to Vic....

Can be done. Whether it is cost effective is another story. Plenty of other stuff is laid on the bottom of Bass Strait.

On a much smaller scale of course, but drinking water is pumped from Hamilton Island across to the golf course complex on Dent Island via an underwater poly pipe, and sewerage is brought back. I will qualify that it is in a different pipe Both thick walled 200mm poly, fully welded. It was an interesting exercise, both the assembly and laying.

I reckon that idea has lots of merit. Taking water from where there is plenty and sending it to a place that has a shortage makes sense.

Much more sense than taking water from an already stressed river system that they are doing now! And I'd have to agree with this guy about the stupidity of the the desal plant. Talk about money and energy intensive!

At least worthy of serious investigation.

Willem

WTF, no jokes about tassie pumps having twice the head pressure ?

Originally Posted by willem

the desal plant. Talk about money and energy intensive!

Laying pipelines and pumping water is also money and energy intensive!

The cost of pumping would be huge. The pressure required at the start to overcome all the headlosses before it reached the other side would be way too much for any pipe. Pipe flow velocities over 1m/s create large friction losses. With the extended time in the pipe, other issues would arise. Extra chlorination stations would also be required along the run. Long pipes usually have booster pumps aling the way, but that wouldn't work in this situation. Those are just the things I can think of in 2 mins. I'm sure there are many more issues as well.

It's as bad as the idea of capturing out stormwater runoff and pumping it back into the dams.

First off let me say keep your hands off our water, we have areas of tassie that are still in drought and dont have access to water. There is a theory about that if the water was taken from the highlands/lakes region then it would naturally flow to vic.
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blaze
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Its bad enough vic steals our envoirment friendly hydro power

After 10 years in the water/waste water industy I think it comes down to looking at how we use the avalable water we have. Pinching it of others for the gratification of a few is not the way to go.

Originally Posted by Sly

After 10 years in the water/waste water industy I think it comes down to looking at how we use the avalable water we have. Pinching it of others for the gratification of a few is not the way to go.

Here here!
Considering how much water Victoria takes out of the Murray, stealing it from SA, I have to agree with you.